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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm getting worried, 'cause I've got the same. What killed yours?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Bad luck. I started getting random reboots, the reboots started happening more and more frequently. I tried a few kits of spare RAM I had laying around, reboots kept happening. I replaced the PSU with a brand new one because mine was a decade old, reboots persisted. I replaced the CPU on a whim (with an upgrade if it was fine), problem went away entirely, not a single reboot since.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's strange - I had some of the same symptoms and it ended up being a completely different thing - a dying (and then eventually completely dead) SSD (the Phison controller fiasco).

    Other than that the CPU itself seems fine and it's only shown very minor degradation over the 4-5 years I've had it - i.e. it used to boost up to 4975 or 4950 single core, now it only goes up to about 4900 (no PBO, no CO); and I've also had to fix the SoC voltage because of the memory - but I haven't touched that in like 3 years, so not sure it's even degradation.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah I tried increasing voltage, decreasing voltage, resetting BIOS to default settings, etc. I tried everything you could think of but nothing helped.

    I did see a post on reddit from someone else with the same MCE hardware errors in Linux that I was getting, with the same random rebooting, and their 5900X ended up dying too.

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