Use on an AMD Ryzen Mini PC at your own peril

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It will play fine for a while then eventually will destroy the board leaving it in a state where any power supply connected will blink/chirp. I researched this online and found that quite a number of people are experiencing this. I regret not having looked into this in advance.

[dannyj147]

I use one and have no issues. Ryzen 5500u mini PC here.

[Grandmother CFO]

Originally posted by ✨:

It will play fine for a while then eventually will smoke the board leaving it in a state where any power supply connected will blink/chirp. I researched this online and found that quite a number of people are experiencing this. I regret not having looked into this in advance.

smoke the board??
a fire??

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Originally posted by dannyj147:

I use one and have no issues. Ryzen 5500u mini PC here.

Yeah mine was fine for quite a while. I made it to level 41 before it was taken out.

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Originally posted by Grandmother CFO:

smoke the board??
a fire??

Perhaps that was hyperbolic wording on my part. I consider microscopic destruction to be "smoked".

[dannyj147]

Can't see any probs with mine at the moment. What were your temps? Mine don't go above 75 C.

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Originally posted by dannyj147:

Can't see any probs with mine ATM. What were your temps? Mine don't go above 75 C.

I did not have a temp app running at the time but the case was only moderately warm. It's been warmer playing Farcry. I don't think it was a long running heat issue. Rather likely something in the code quickly spiked it. If I had to guess it could have been particle rendering related because I switched to the rifle with several laser dots, that is all I had done differently.

[Grandmother CFO]

Originally posted by ✨:

Originally posted by Grandmother CFO:

smoke the board??
a fire??

Perhaps that was hyperbolic wording on my part. I consider microscopic destruction to be "smoked".

:)))
Use HWINFO to see temps:P

[ImIowaShinderoo]

It's practically impossible for a video game to break a computer. Unless you're installing software that removes The fail-safe that is built into almost every component on your computer. What can generally destroy a Mother board, in my experience, is over-volting the power to your CPU. Meaning, if you're trying to overclock your CPU ( or in some cases your GPU ) sometimes you can go too far. With modern CPUs and GPUs the power can spike well beyond the capabilities of your power supply or mother board for a split second. If you're overclocking on a mini-itx motherboard theres a good chance that you just threw waaaay too many volts at a board not necessarily designed for it.

there is a reason the more expensive MBs have more overclocking support. There is a reason the cheap ones don't have any. The only other thing I can think of is that you've not done any maintenance on your PC and the thermal paste needed replacing. Though, this doesn't usually affect the motherboard.

If you live in a dirty house with lots of animal hair, or you dropped something in your pc; it's very possible that you could have simply shorted it out.

None of these things that ACTUALLY kill computers have anything to do with Starfield or Bethesda. Perhaps you should take some accountability and discover what you did to your machine rather than blame a program that runs just fine on everyone elses computer.

[Grandmother CFO]

Originally posted by ImIowaShinderoo:

It's practically impossible for a video game to break a computer. Unless you're installing software that removes The fail-safe that is built into almost every component on your computer. What can generally destroy a Mother board, in my experience, is over-volting the power to your CPU. Meaning, if you're trying to overclock your CPU ( or in some cases your GPU ) sometimes you can go too far. With modern CPUs and GPUs the power can spike well beyond the capabilities of your power supply or mother board for a split second. If you're overclocking on a mini-itx motherboard theres a good chance that you just threw waaaay too many volts at a board not necessarily designed for it.

there is a reason the more expensive MBs have more overclocking support. There is a reason the cheap ones don't have any. The only other thing I can think of is that you've not done any maintenance on your PC and the thermal paste needed replacing. Though, this doesn't usually affect the motherboard.

If you live in a dirty house with lots of animal hair, or you dropped something in your pc; it's very possible that you could have simply shorted it out.

None of these things that ACTUALLY kill computers have anything to do with Starfield or Bethesda. Perhaps you should take some accountability and discover what you did to your machine rather than blame a program that runs just fine on everyone elses computer.

everyone elses computer??
ok lol.
In other things you right!

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ImIowaShinderoo I get where you are coming from and I appreciate your feedback. For the record my PC is cleaner than a surgical tool. I keep several HEPA filters running 24/7. I don't mod anything, tweak anything, change anything. Its a bog standard PC and I keep it cool. I keep the room cool. I also have no other applications running when I use steam, ever.