Here are my specs:
Video: Nvidia RTX 3080 (EVGA)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3800XT
Motherboard: ASUS B550-F
SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise
PSU: Superflower Leadex III 850W+ Gold
I built my computer over a year ago and until the last couple months it ran without any problems. But then it started having trouble suggesting there was something wrong with the primary storage drive, a 1TB Gigabyte SSD. It was as if certain boots would go wrong, and after such boots, loading up files would be very slow and opening file explorer would take a very long time - in general performance on basic desktop tasks was extremely poor and everything felt sluggish. In one case the computer wouldn't post at all, and the motherboard was stuck with the boot LED on. Also, the Gigabyte SSD was showing massively inconsistent results on CrystalDiskMark benchmarks, going from say 5000MB/s down to 2000MB/s between sequential write tests on the 1GB test size setting in CrystalDiskMark.
So I replaced the primary SSD with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB (I mirrored the old drive on the new one). For a couple weeks everything seemed fine. Then, I'm guessing unrelated, my CPU cooler started dying, and I had to replace that. My CPU temps are back to where they should be. But now, I think I'm starting to see weird file loading problems again. Certain applications are at times very slow to load. If you're familiar with CrystalDiskInfo, it usually loads up the SMART info on the storage drives on a device very quickly. Lately when I open it, it sometimes takes so long to open I start wondering if I somehow didn't double-click the app's icon.
To check for more solid evidence of drive failure, I did CrystalDiskMark benchmarking on the Samsung drive, as I'd done on the prior one. On the 1GB test size setting, the Samsung SSD is performing about as well as it did when I first got it. However, I tried some smaller test size settings, such as 64MB, and its speeds are much lower on that. The Samsung SSD gets 6900-7100MB/s on the sequential read tests and about 5100MB/s on the sequential write tests when using a 1GB test size setting in CrystalDiskMark, but it gets as low as 2100MB/s for both sequential read and write tests on the 64MB test size setting. I read somewhere that big discrepancies across test size settings in CrystalDiskMark could indicate a problem, but it was an isolated comment and I couldn't find more info about this. Oddly, in Samsung Magician, different test sizes don't seem to affect the drive's performance.
Could there be something wrong with my motherboard that started killing my Gigabyte SSD and is now killing the Samsung one? It seems possible that there isn't actually anything wrong with the Samsung SSD, but some of these problems are looking reminiscent of those that the dying Gigabyte drive exhibited. The performance of my memory, CPU, and GPU haven't changed at all over time in benchmarks. Error testing of the memory didn't indicate any problems. As such I don't suspect there's anything wrong with the PSU. Also, I've got a Western Digital 1TB SSD in the secondary M2 slot, and its performance has been rock solid since I first built this machine. It doesn't exhibit much performance discrepancy at all across the 64MB and 1GB CrystalDiskMark test size settings.
This has become quite frustrating and I'm considering buying a new computer so that I don't have to keep playing error-fixing whack-a-mole with this one. I didn't enjoy building this PC, so I'd have to go with a system integrator or prebuilt, and, also annoying, options on both fronts don't seem too great, so if I could get to the bottom of the current problem, I'd rather do that and keep this PC.
Any help would really be appreciated.
Video: Nvidia RTX 3080 (EVGA)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3800XT
Motherboard: ASUS B550-F
SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise
PSU: Superflower Leadex III 850W+ Gold
I built my computer over a year ago and until the last couple months it ran without any problems. But then it started having trouble suggesting there was something wrong with the primary storage drive, a 1TB Gigabyte SSD. It was as if certain boots would go wrong, and after such boots, loading up files would be very slow and opening file explorer would take a very long time - in general performance on basic desktop tasks was extremely poor and everything felt sluggish. In one case the computer wouldn't post at all, and the motherboard was stuck with the boot LED on. Also, the Gigabyte SSD was showing massively inconsistent results on CrystalDiskMark benchmarks, going from say 5000MB/s down to 2000MB/s between sequential write tests on the 1GB test size setting in CrystalDiskMark.
So I replaced the primary SSD with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB (I mirrored the old drive on the new one). For a couple weeks everything seemed fine. Then, I'm guessing unrelated, my CPU cooler started dying, and I had to replace that. My CPU temps are back to where they should be. But now, I think I'm starting to see weird file loading problems again. Certain applications are at times very slow to load. If you're familiar with CrystalDiskInfo, it usually loads up the SMART info on the storage drives on a device very quickly. Lately when I open it, it sometimes takes so long to open I start wondering if I somehow didn't double-click the app's icon.
To check for more solid evidence of drive failure, I did CrystalDiskMark benchmarking on the Samsung drive, as I'd done on the prior one. On the 1GB test size setting, the Samsung SSD is performing about as well as it did when I first got it. However, I tried some smaller test size settings, such as 64MB, and its speeds are much lower on that. The Samsung SSD gets 6900-7100MB/s on the sequential read tests and about 5100MB/s on the sequential write tests when using a 1GB test size setting in CrystalDiskMark, but it gets as low as 2100MB/s for both sequential read and write tests on the 64MB test size setting. I read somewhere that big discrepancies across test size settings in CrystalDiskMark could indicate a problem, but it was an isolated comment and I couldn't find more info about this. Oddly, in Samsung Magician, different test sizes don't seem to affect the drive's performance.
Could there be something wrong with my motherboard that started killing my Gigabyte SSD and is now killing the Samsung one? It seems possible that there isn't actually anything wrong with the Samsung SSD, but some of these problems are looking reminiscent of those that the dying Gigabyte drive exhibited. The performance of my memory, CPU, and GPU haven't changed at all over time in benchmarks. Error testing of the memory didn't indicate any problems. As such I don't suspect there's anything wrong with the PSU. Also, I've got a Western Digital 1TB SSD in the secondary M2 slot, and its performance has been rock solid since I first built this machine. It doesn't exhibit much performance discrepancy at all across the 64MB and 1GB CrystalDiskMark test size settings.
This has become quite frustrating and I'm considering buying a new computer so that I don't have to keep playing error-fixing whack-a-mole with this one. I didn't enjoy building this PC, so I'd have to go with a system integrator or prebuilt, and, also annoying, options on both fronts don't seem too great, so if I could get to the bottom of the current problem, I'd rather do that and keep this PC.
Any help would really be appreciated.
