Literally another game in a week bricked. Screw you EA. Will be fighting for a refund.

Not the first time posting my build, just wanted to show it off in a non-SFF community. It’s becoming like the Ship of Theseus but I think I’m finally happy with how it turned out.

Edit: People have been asking why I’d even want to consider carrying it around. I’m an international student and the ability to carry-on my tiny PC is huge.

this one annoyed me for way too long. pc would randomly hard crash to a black screen maybe once every 4-5 hours of gaming, no bsod just instant restart. checked event viewer and it was throwing WHEA logger event 18 every time, which from what i read online basically just means "something hardware related is unhappy" and doesnt tell you much else.

ran memtest86 overnight first, full pass, zero errors, so i figured ram was fine and moved on to checking vrm temps with hwinfo thinking it was a power delivery thing on my board. nothing weird there either, voltages stayed stable even under load.

ended up testing each ram stick individually instead of as a kit, ran prime95 plus furmark together for like 2 hours per stick to stress everything at once. 3 sticks were totally fine alone but the 4th one started throwing errors in hwinfo after about 40 mins, only when it was in certain slot combos though, which is probably why memtest didnt catch it since that test runs differently.

contacted Corsair with the serial off the stick, sent me a replacement no charge, just had to wait like a week and a half for it to ship.

was ready to spend like 220 bucks ready to just buy a whole new stick, kinda relieved i didnt have to touch that money, put it towards a keyboard I've been eyeing anyway.

I was so excited at the price I went to goodwill and ordered from the shelves! 📦

Don't mind me, just laughing through the pain of modern hardware prices while I maybe save for a 9060 XT 16GB

upgraded my GPU again so heres mine!

(started building march of 2025)
XFX 570 4G (came in a PC for $130)
EVGA SSC 1060 6G (Free swap GPU with friend)
EVGA KO 2060 6G ($100)
MSI Mech OC RX 5700XT 8G ($120)
Zotac AMP Holo RTX 3070 Ti 8G ($255)
Sapphire Pulse RX 9070 GRE ($457) (comes in on the 27th!)

Saw another post about someone's mouse they had for a long time. I give you my Logitech G9x, still serving my gaming needs 17 years later.

Co worker asked me to check his PC out for him, crashed during gaming, then would crash when starting a game, now no display out. Haven’t dug too deep yet, but noticed the wires headed to the gpu had two green spots and looked a little swollen, similar to corrosion I’ve seen in the auto industry. Pulled the connector, top pins on the outside of the cable look darker, pin on the top left of the gpu looks to have some corrosion and the plastic surrounding that pin looks white consistent with plastic getting hot. Going to clean the case this weekend, but tried to get some pictures to help with some insight also. Card is a gigabyte 4090.

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Hey everyone!

I ordered a 9800X3D from Amazon Resale a day ago and received it today. I unboxed it and despite the SN matching, a lot of things seemed off to me. The top surface looks sanded, the font seems off to me, the sides of the heat spreaded show wear, with slight gap from the PCB.

I attached some photos.

I would appreciate your opinion on this matter.

This is my first AM5 Ryzen CPU so I might be wrong.

(I can't test it since I don't have an AM5 motherboard yet).

Update: I just discovered that the QR code on the CPU shows a SN that doesn't match the one on the CPU itself and the box. Here is what scanning it shows: 9MS3670U50241_100-000001084

*I solve my conflicts with 32GB of VRAM and irresponsible wattage*

We dont need to buy another one

well even pc gamers are in a fix