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Lanx

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Denamian said:
Maybe the heat spreader made contact somewhere and created a short. Weird indeed.
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yea yup, it was likely crushed in. this happened to one of my rams only, it took 2 years for it to fritz out and give errors/reboot etc, i didn't know what was wrong until i tried 1stick at a time and i put the trouble ram to the side. only then did i notice that some light was glinting off of it, then i picked it up and looked at it, 1 spot in the heatsink was crushed and pushed in.

i know it wasn't me that did it cuz i handle ram and cpu like tom cruise
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Lanx said:
yea yup, it was likely crushed in. this happened to one of my rams only, it took 2 years for it to fritz out and give errors/reboot etc, i didn't know what was wrong until i tried 1stick at a time and i put the trouble ram to the side. only then did i notice that some light was glinting off of it, then i picked it up and looked at it, 1 spot in the heatsink was crushed and pushed in.

i know it wasn't me that did it cuz i handle ram and cpu like tom cruise
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tom cruise humour GIF
 
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Kajiimagi

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Wife just told me to look at alternatives, she knows nada about PC'S , time to 128gb up in this bitch!
 
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Well Poo! Turns out you can run 4 sticks of ram on my board, just not fast. Only way to have more GB's AND EXPO speeds is to replace the sticks I already have. I just built this PC in February so not worth the $$$$.
 
Lanx

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Kajiimagi said:
Well Poo! Turns out you can run 4 sticks of ram on my board, just not fast. Only way to have more GB's AND EXPO speeds is to replace the sticks I already have. I just built this PC in February so not worth the $$$$.
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128gb, tho? thats pushing a lot
 
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Lanx said:
pc masterrace is serious, we only joke about burnt intel cpus
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ok you genuinely got me to laugh out loud at that. Out of the last 3 build's I've done for me, this is the only one that didn't have 64GB of RAM. I was falling apart and didn't know if I had the budget (or would be alive) to go whole hog. Still doesn't make sense to replace RAM I bought in February for 1% needs where 32GB *may* not be enough.
 
Lanx

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Kajiimagi said:
ok you genuinely got me to laugh out loud at that. Out of the last 3 build's I've done for me, this is the only one that didn't have 64GB of RAM. I was falling apart and didn't know if I had the budget (or would be alive) to go whole hog. Still doesn't make sense to replace RAM I bought in February for 1% needs where 32GB *may* not be enough.
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yea thats how i got 64gbs on work and htpc, i move 2x16 to 1 machine and bought 2x32gb, it's just ddr4 since both are am4, and theyre all cl16. i honestly don't notice any difference but i also don't want to worry about not having enough for a few years
 
Malakriss

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General rule of RAM these days is you buy a full kit and never combine. Doesn't matter if it's the same brand, same model never take two separate pairs and expect them to play nice with each other. If they didn't arrive in the same plastic wrapping there are no guarantees, hell even if they did there's no guarantee they hit the timings you want depending on the mobo.
 
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Lanx

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Malakriss said:
General rule of RAM these days is you buy a full kit and never combine. Doesn't matter if it's the same brand, same model never take two separate pairs and expect them to play nice with each other. If they didn't arrive in the same plastic wrapping there are no guarantees, hell even if they did there's no guarantee they hit the timings you want depending on the mobo.
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it's cool, if you stay using xmp and don't go oc crazy, you can cross the streams
 
Daidraco

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Lanx said:
yea yup, it was likely crushed in. this happened to one of my rams only, it took 2 years for it to fritz out and give errors/reboot etc, i didn't know what was wrong until i tried 1stick at a time and i put the trouble ram to the side. only then did i notice that some light was glinting off of it, then i picked it up and looked at it, 1 spot in the heatsink was crushed and pushed in.

i know it wasn't me that did it cuz i handle ram and cpu like tom cruise
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Its exactly what happened to me, as well. Rewind enough pages back and we'll see it. The "party trick" for mine was that the memory was fine for maybe 6 months? 8 months? Before something got to it, and I guess caused it to arc and fry the memory. I didnt know what was going on, so I dropped the whole PC at a PC shop and they called me back within 30 minutes saying that the memory is pressed in on the sides. I get there, and sure enough it is and recalled that I was impressed that everything made it through the mail unscathed. I RMA the memory to G.Skill, and they send me the same memory back in a plastic sleeve, but the shipping container was a box at least.

Amazon just has people that dont know, or just dont give a fuck when it comes to memory. So Im not at all surprised.
 
Kajiimagi

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Well what do you know, turns out I'm building Windows 11 PC's for my wife & MIL, both will be using a MB that works with the ram I have now. So one of them inherits my 32GB of RAM and I am getting a 64GB kit for my gaming rig. Win/Win. Also I get to build 2 PC's. Pretty boring ones but PC's none the less.
 
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Mur

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OK, I am probably just a retard, but Youtube is fucked up for me. Anyone else have this issue, or maybe a fix. Googling this almost gave me an aneurysm.

Problem is that fullscreen is no longer fullscreen. It shows the video info below the video, which it has never done before. Literally watched videos fine, logged off, and now this is fullscreen. I have checked zoom, screen settings etc, but I have no idea what might be causing this.


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shits broken.

I need my farm porn.
 
Lanx

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Mur said:
OK, I am probably just a retard, but Youtube is fucked up for me. Anyone else have this issue, or maybe a fix. Googling this almost gave me an aneurysm.

Problem is that fullscreen is no longer fullscreen. It shows the video info below the video, which it has never done before. Literally watched videos fine, logged off, and now this is fullscreen. I have checked zoom, screen settings etc, but I have no idea what might be causing this.


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shits broken.

I need my farm porn.
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chrome?

try other browser
 
Denamian

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Mur said:
OK, I am probably just a retard, but Youtube is fucked up for me. Anyone else have this issue, or maybe a fix. Googling this almost gave me an aneurysm.

Problem is that fullscreen is no longer fullscreen. It shows the video info below the video, which it has never done before. Literally watched videos fine, logged off, and now this is fullscreen. I have checked zoom, screen settings etc, but I have no idea what might be causing this.


View attachment 560066


shits broken.

I need my farm porn.
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You're in theater mode. Hit T to go back to standard mode.
 
Mur

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Denamian said:
You're in theater mode. Hit T to go back to standard mode.
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Nope, I actually thought that too. Theatre mode actually was a bit better as far as size. No longer an issue however. Working fine this morning. I had done a cookie purge prior to the issue, and think it must have fucked things up.

Thanks for the suggestions though, I knew FoH would at least take a swing at it.
 
Control

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Mur said:
Nope, I actually thought that too. Theatre mode actually was a bit better as far as size. No longer an issue however. Working fine this morning. I had done a cookie purge prior to the issue, and think it must have fucked things up.

Thanks for the suggestions though, I knew FoH would at least take a swing at it.
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They changed full screen a while ago to allow scrolling down the page, and I think that causes weirdness sometimes. It might be trying that but somehow detected the wrong resolution (changing windows between monitors with different resolutions? browser zoom?)
 
Gravel

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Built my new PC. ASRock x870 RS Pro.

My issue is that I bought two sticks of 16GB RAM. One of them seemed fine, but I couldn't get the 2nd to work in any configuration. Basically it just wouldn't POST at all (fans would make a pulsing sound, but had CPU and DRAM error lights on MB; if I change BIOS from Auto to 6000 which is the RAM speed, the pulse goes away but still won't POST). Was going to RMA it, but they basically said they wouldn't send me a replacement until the other was sent back. So bought a 2nd set of RAM. PC has been working fine with the one stick for the last week and a half or so.

Got it today and it's basically the same issue. My one good stick of RAM seems fine, can't get the others to work in any configuration (single or dual). I did get one of them to work once (it seems finicky) but it was a mismatched pair and I think Newegg will likely throw a fit about sending two different SN RAM back. Tried to fiddle around with it some more and can't get anything but that one stick to work.

There's no way 3 out of 4 are crappy, and the MB itself seems fine since it works with that one stick of RAM.

I'm getting pretty frustrated and have no clue what is going on.
 
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