For a while now I've wondered how to build the most stable gaming/workstation possible. I'm sick of crashes, stutters, and general un-reliability. However, it's a balancing act between price, performance, and reliability. (for example ECC memory is stable, but more expensive and slower)
Ideas I've had:
- ECC memory
- CSM sku motherboard
- Hugely overkill power supply, or even dual redundant PSUs
- RAID M.2 boot drives
- All air cooled
What do you all think? If you were to spec out a (realistic) ultra-reliable PC what parts would you use and why?
P.S. I'm looking less for specific recommendations as I am for general ideas, which is why I didn't specify the use case or budget. I'm more interested in the concept and if it's feasible.
I agree with everyone else that last-gen should be more stable than the latest and greatest. Make sure your bios is up-to-date. I'm in the AMD camp and I wouldn't jump to AM5 just yet. AM4 has been around for a while and is mature.
Have you considered under-clocking? Modern hardware is pushed to its limits pretty aggressively.
Do you have an Nvidia card? The Studio drivers are supposed to be more mature at the cost of cutting edge features and performance compared to the game-ready drivers.
Are you in Windows? Have you de-bloated and disabled as much telemetry as you can?
What's a good/safe way to de-bloat windows 11, without re-installing? I've seen scripts and a "win-tool-something" whose name I can't remember, but was looking for something easier/quicker to understand what it's actually doing.
I'm not tech-illiterate, but not necessarily a super-user (depending on what I'm doing). I just haven't had time to really get into it and wanted to know what the worst bloat-offenders were, that can be taken out easily enough
And to pre-emptively stave off the "install Linux" comments: I already have 2 machines running Linux, I'm well aware of that concept. I just want my windows laptop less boggy
Can't help you there- my only interaction with windows is at work where machines on the plant floor have a Cortana process running along side industrial control software.