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I got it fixed finally. After trying everything I could think of turns out it was my monitor causing the issue. Switched to a different monitor and booted fine. Im thinking it was the USB hub built into the monitor possibly backfeeding. Either way works fine now finally. Thanks for the help everyone

Well I'm back to square one at least, got the OC back and system back up and running... still booting to bios but it's working at least

I tried switching back to the air cooler and had the same issue, I looked and my bios version was somehow 1.0 even though the updater said it was up to date, well while flashing the bios something happened and the screen just blacked out and never came back on.... so I may be stuck now. I...

Tried to clear the cmos, still having the same issue, I'm hitting a wall here I think, any other ideas?

Clearing the cmos just consists of removing the battery for some time with the system powered off correct?

Wouldn't save screenshots to my flashdrive for some reason, had to just take a couple iphone pics https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1nf1o2zpYYnWlpyMG83Z3BUTi0wVVFNOUlOTWlhdTdhcXlz https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1nf1o2zpYYnY0Z0c3RPZ2hPQk1JYlhuSnVrUFVMc2tHR2o0

My samsung ssd

I did load defaults on bios, and just tried it again for good measure. Same result. There is no option for boot into bios that I've found, boot drive is a samsung ssd

I've had this system since right around the launch of Ryzen and have had no issues up until this week. I just switched over to a Thermaltake AIO and was messing around with my OC a little and ever since my system boots directly to the bios everytime I power on. I've since tried to reset my cpu...

I was using 16 as a base line, it's such a cheap upgrade from 8 to 16 there's really no reason to not do at least 16

Well that settles that, 16gb it is

16 gigs is where I was starting to land I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything by not going 32 right away.

Wouldn't I be better off spending the money on a better cpu or gpu over ram though?

Awesome, thanks for the quick response.

I'm not looking to do water cooling right away but may decide to do it down the road just for the fun of doing it. Are there any advantages of the S other than the open design for res's and pumps? Also is there any noticeable noise differences between the two?