Recent content by DejaWiz

I'm just happy when every AMD next-gen CPU gets released and it's not another Bulldozer fiasco.

Par for the course: "our customers can EAt shit!"

Figured it would be a matter of time before Amazon jumped on the Google YouTube model of starting off light with injected ads. Be prepared for a systemic gradual increase in both frequency and duration of ads... I don't mind having a couple/few minutes of "mandatory" ads at the beginning...

Excellent point!

Thanks again, sharknice!

Thank you. 128GB to save $50, it is. Any recommendations for the head strap... Amazon links with Prime shipping would be a bonus.

Couple of votes for the Quest 2, so that's probably what we'll go with. 128 or 256 GB version matter much?

No idea! LOL I really know nothing about VR headsets and gaming. ...they merely expressed interest, so I'm thinking of springing for a headset to get them for Christmas.

Hello, [H]orde! Wanting to get my boys (15 and 16 YO) a VR headset for PC gaming (maybe XB1 compatible, if that's a thing) if it's even capable, but I know jack-squat about the tech. Not looking to break the bank, so maybe around $300 max. Their PC specs are so-so: Ryzen 5500 GTX 980Ti 16GB...

SSDs *should* be fine ...I did upgrade the firmware on all three right before the fresh reinstall of Windows and checked them with Crucial Storage Executive - no errors and they are all under 20% of their TBW. Is there a better utility that I should try? This is really perplexing: OCCT CPU...

Shit...this install is fresh as of about a few weeks ago, so that sucks if I have to rinse-repeat. Thank you for the further advice.

Ran 4 hours on RAM, 2 hours on CPU, and 2 hours on GPU - no errors detected in OCCD. Fired up Timespy...finished with no issues (I do not have the latest 3Dmark so no benchmark with DX12U with RT) - no issues running it. Then fired up Jedi Survivor - about 5 mins into it, another crash-reboot...

Downloaded and ran OCCT large+extreme for 4 hours...no errors detected. This was with the two modules that didn't show errors with MT86. System is crash-reboots in GPU-intensive games. I'm at a bit of a loss...

You mean third memory slot...a shown in the manual when a single module is populated? If so, then that is what I did for each module's individual test.

weird thing is this computer has been stable for about two years since it was built, and only recently in the past couple months has started exhibiting the crash-reboot behavior when games that are pushing the max settings are fired up.