Question How would crossfired 7970's compare to an RX590?

[igor_kavinski]

Resource monitor shows 3GB reserved for hardware.

That would still bug me. My mobile Ivy Bridge i7 shows 31.6 GB available.

 

[jamesdsimone]

That would still bug me. My mobile Ivy Bridge i7 shows 31.6 GB available.

I can turn the paging file off?

 

[igor_kavinski]

I can turn the paging file off?

Normally, if your RAM usage isn't exceeding 20GB, turning off paging won't impact anything. It will lead to out of memory messages with some memory hungry app like too many browser tabs. Badly written applications that expect the presence of virtual memory may crash. But usually you don't run into any issues.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Normally, if your RAM usage isn't exceeding 20GB, turning off paging won't impact anything. It will lead to out of memory messages with some memory hungry app like too many browser tabs. Badly written applications that expect the presence of virtual memory may crash. But usually you don't run into any issues.

I saw that option but didn't know if a paging files was necessary.

 

[Shmee]

Congrats on installing the 5900X, that is a huge upgrade! Glad to hear that it even works in Windows 7. Next step, I would run memtest86 to make sure everything is stable.

I wonder if there is something inherently weird about your RAM. Kind of a weird issue. Could verify the hardware issue is solved though by trying a Linux boot again, but this sounds to be an improvement already.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Congrats on installing the 5900X, that is a huge upgrade! Glad to hear that it even works in Windows 7. Next step, I would run memtest86 to make sure everything is stable.

I wonder if there is something inherently weird about your RAM. Kind of a weird issue. Could verify the hardware issue is solved though by trying a Linux boot again, but this sounds to be an improvement already.

I'll boot from the Linux USB drive and make sure it is seeing 32GB of ram. There was something wrong with the 2700x I think but it seemed like it worked ok. I did half a dozen transcodes with it. Not sure what problem would prevent it from seeing the system memory but allow it to transcode which is a pretty CPU intensive. I'll have to see how it games but so far so good. I'm using Gskill ram. This is the 3rd build I've been using it. Never had problems with it before.

 

[aigomorla]

Called it... your cpu was busted.
Glad you had a replacement.

As for it not going back into socket, that is disturbing..
I would check under the CPU for bent pins.
You may have wrecked a pin and its not seatting properly, and gave you memory errors.

You can take a credit card and start combing though the pins, to make sure they all align both in the X, and Y, Axis.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Called it... your cpu was busted.
Glad you had a replacement.

As for it not going back into socket, that is disturbing..
I would check under the CPU for bent pins.
You may have wrecked a pin and its not seatting properly, and gave you memory errors.

You can take a credit card and start combing though the pins, to make sure they all align both in the X, and Y, Axis.

I would try that but there is no reason to pull the 5900x just to screw around with the 2700x. If I do another AM4 build I'll mess with it.