I'm trying to decide if my outdated PC is worth saving or if I should just scrap it. I've been using this setup for about three years now, and I've been experiencing major crashes. Here are my specs: I've got a Corsair SF850L PSU, GTX 1080, AMD Ryzen 7 5800x, an ASRock x570 PG Velocita motherboard, and two 8GB Corsair DDR4 RAM sticks, along with a Cooler Master dual fan system, running Windows 10 Home. The crashes started showing up in February after a period of stability since November. I switched out the PSU, which helped for a while, but now it's back to crashing. The main error I'm seeing is a WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR, with many NVIDIA driver issues logged in the event viewer. I did try to update the drivers, but that didn't really help. Any advice on whether I should invest in fixing this or just move on?
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Honestly, your specs aren’t too shabby! But I didn’t catch any info about your storage—do you have an SSD or an HDD? I’d recommend getting a good gen4 NVME SSD if you don’t have one yet. A fresh install of Windows might work wonders, so I’d try that first. If everything runs smoothly afterwards, think about upgrading the GPU to something like a 3060 Ti, which you can get fairly cheap these days.
Thanks for the insight! Just to clarify, I’m using a Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB. I tried to upgrade to Windows 11, but I'm blocked due to a TPM compatibility issue. Tried troubleshooting in the BIOS but no luck.