[HNaTTY]

My 1700x build for video processing has suffered major instabilities -- app crashes and BSODs -- memory corruption type errors. I went through 4 different types of DDR4 memory until I found some that works, even though it isn't on the ASUS's Qualified Vendors List. My advice is to make sure your RAM can do 15-15-15-36 timings (or better).

[setq]

This is why I'd rather lose 25% of the performance these days and take a canned pre-built PC. I just can't afford the time to find this out. It was bad enough trying to find a working set of drivers for my T440 and that only took an hour or so.

I lived through the age of self build K6's, Athlons, dual Celerons and SLI Voodoo 2's and heatsinks the size of a can of coke. I'd rather just have a shitty old thinkpad and a box in AWS now. This all happened when I realised a naff old Pentium III 1.4 GHz (Compaq AP230) was actually my goto machine despite having things 3-5x the speed.

I run a fair few high CPU/RAM simulations with LTspice as well for ref.

[michaelmrose]

Wouldn't buying memory on the motherboard makers list also have served to save said time?

[noir_lord]

I ran all the usual suspects (memtest86 etc) for 24 hours after I built it, not had a single issue in 2 weeks under Linux (Fedora 25) though I've seen people having a lot of issues with various RAM configurations.

I went for 32GB of Corsair Vengeance over 2x16GB at a conservative timing (the newer beta bios for the mobo I have supports more memory options as was as clocking) since it's a machine at work.

[icelancer]

I've also heard the same. I've made comments on this post about the issues and poor performance with transcoding (specifically ffmpeg benchmarks), which is unfortunately why I've had to stay away.