They’re not wrong though. Have had a few devices over the years that had a dead pixel or a few for one reason or another. Some very much do fix themselves over time.

For phones and tablets using Android, there’s actually apps that you can use that flash the screen red, green and blue rapidly in an effort to fix the pixel(s), though I’m unsure if a similar app exists in Linux.

Just. Use. Windows. Problem solved.

I did and I’ve regretted it since day 1.

Things have gotten better for sure, but I still can’t use my RAM at it’s rated speed of 6000mhz, even though these exact sticks are listed in the QVL for my board.

I actually can’t run them above 5200mhz, no matter how hard I try. Numerous bios updates have not changed this fact either. AMD says the sweet spot for their 7000 series CPUs is 6000mhz, so that’s why I got the kit I did. Hopefully one day I’m able to use them as I expect to.

Also no DOCP profile will work (blue screens and system lock ups) and the board doesn’t support EXPO from what I can see (although it’s my understanding that EXPO and DOCP are essentially the same thing? )

The long boot times were another issue for me. Torture actually. If you’re trying to play around with settings or need to restart often (doing a clean install and drivers, things like that) it is absolutely frustrating having to wait so long. I was able to Google this and found a RAM setting to enable and this effectively turned off the RAM learning procedure that was causing the delay.

I went with the 7950x. Even with one of the fastest processors available, it has never felt snappy. I’ve benchmarked and ran quite a few tests in my build and my system performs where it should, but it never feels snappy. It never has. Hell, even my 3770k system can boot into windows and load steam faster than the 7950x can…which just blows my mind.

I wanted to go Intel again for this build, but with their latest socket pretty much over, it just didn’t make sense buying something without an upgrade path…but I’ll remember this for next time. I can’t wait to get rid of my AMD build and go back to Intel.