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Styx N Stones
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Im not using the screensaver.

Im not using the screensaver. I have it disabled. I was pointing out a symptom that it had at one point.

Ian&Steve C.
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are you certain that the

are you certain that the crashes are entirely OS related? maybe a faulty part of hardware, like memory or some overclocking setting (if you're OCing anything). removing boinc and crashing stops isnt necessarily a smoking gun since BOINC projects is putting stress on the system. try running some stress testing without boinc, do you get the same crashing? if so, you may have some hardware issue.

 

what is the nature of "hard crash"? as that term can be a little vague and mean something different to everyone.  does the system freeze? hang? reboot? blue screen? what is the more specific behavior that you're experiencing?

 

are you able to downgrade this system to Windows 10?

or maybe just install Linux as the host OS?

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Styx N Stones
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Not OCing. Not touched the

Not OCing. Not touched the BIOS. Ive run all the troubleshooters I can think of...

Ian&Steve C.
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what happens if you run other

what happens if you run other kinds of stress tests? lilke prime95 (cpu stress) and/or furmark (gpu stress)?

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Styx N Stones
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Havent tried fumark. Right

Havent tried fumark. Right now Im running GPU WUs only... so far so good

 

Tom M
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Styx N Stones wrote: Haven't

Styx N Stones wrote:

Haven't tried fumark. Right now I'm running GPU WUs only... so far so good

That leads to the question of are you running only 87.5% of your available CPU threads (14 of 16)?  If your CPU load exceeds 85% (roughly) in the Windows task manager usually some CPU processing slows down.  Maybe that has become a crash and burn instead in your case?

Tom M
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Styx N Stones
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Im set at 50% of CPUs for

Im set at 50% of CPUs for 100% of time. 8 threads...

Tom M
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From Tom's Hardware (no

From Tom's Hardware (no relation).

Today we have an Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti from Gigabyte that's down to $1,570 and in stock. It's been a great week so far for GPU 

A Proud member of the O.F.A.  (Old Farts Association).  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)  I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!

Mike Hewson
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Yeah, my favorite supplier

Yeah, my favorite supplier has been discounting, sometimes quite heavily, the 3000 series for the last few weeks. It seems the market may have ( finally ) turned.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Tom M
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Styx N Stones wrote: Im set

Styx N Stones wrote:

Im set at 50% of CPUs for 100% of time. 8 threads...

With or without SMT (Hyper-threading)?

Tom M

A Proud member of the O.F.A.  (Old Farts Association).  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)  I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!

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