I'm helping a friend diagnose some strange behavior with her new gaming rig, and I can't help but wonder how many low hit rate post launch mystery crashes are just defective memory or overclocked hardware. She's got gigabyte GPU that's overclocked out of the box, random stuff is crashing when its at load, and it seems to also be interfering with bluetooth lol.
edit for the curious: de-overclocking her GPU fixed the problem
@aeva It's working now, so not needed, but one other cause of bluetooth problems can be usb flash drives. USB 3 flash drives can to emit interference at around 2.4GHz, which will mess with bluetooth, most proprietary wireless dongles and some wifi networks.
My favorite though is that the cushions in office chairs can make an electrostatic discharge when you start or stop sitting on them that can cause monitors to flicker. The ESD Association published a paper on it. :)
@aeva I had a gigabyte motherboard that caused crashes all the time. It turned out that in addition to all the memory timing options, which I matched to the manufacturers spec, it does a blanket 10% ram overclock by default. 🤦♂️
@aeva so many :( there's a lot of noise in our crash report server, that's for sure.
Also, if this is a new pc there are some problems with 13th and 14th gen Intels in certain motherboards. (Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but we've been dealing with this a lot at work). Seems to mostly manifest as random bluescreens on heavy CPU load, or weirdly as vram out of memory errors when that's clearly not true. Though also just other random crashes. So far our only solution is to underclock the CPU to get around this.
@rfernandez It is a new PC, but I think she's running an AMD processor. At any rate, undoing the overclocking on her GPU seems to have fixed the problem.
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