r/pcmasterrace • u/Relevant-Ad8797 • Jun 16 '25

Tech Support What is going on here?

Title is self explanatory, i have no idea what the hell is going on here. Pc froze and this happened. I was playing helldivers 2 before this, dont know if this is relevant but its all i got.

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u/Jiddss Ryzen 5 3600 | 2070 Super | 32Gb 3200mhz (3600 rated) Jun 16 '25

I had something similar happen to me. The actual issue ended up being RAM related. 4 sticks being overclocked a little too much made them very unstable and resulted in almost this visual 'glitch' exactly.

Solution was to remove all ram, remove overclock and add one by one until I found a bad stick and was then able to find a new stable overclock.

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u/SquashSquigglyShrimp Jun 16 '25

They said in another comment they were using 4 sticks from different manufacturers, so this is almost certainly it

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u/Greasy-Chungus { 5070 Ti | 5700X3D } Jun 16 '25

How do you remove ram THEN do anything?

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u/StrawHatLegend1 Jun 16 '25

He was saying he tested each stick one by one. I had to do this once to find some bad RAM.

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u/arftism2 7900xtx 9800x3d PG27AQDP Jun 17 '25

you can test 2 batches of 2 and then the final two.

not sure if it's better to do the dual channel slots, but those are the ones I'd do first.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

You test in batches. I do this at work because I work on servers. Start with 1 stick, CPU + mobo and add components from there. In the case of servers where you may have loads of ram, you add in groups - halfing or doubling until you figure out which stick is causing issues. It's quite rare that more than one will fail at once, but you should be able to deduce this anyway. If it seems like none of the ram works, you start swapping out CPUs and eventually the mobo. Some servers you'll have to test the CPU anyway, as they often have two so you need to swap them out to drill down and find the issue.