u/RealAbd121

My B450 Tomahawk Max slowly died over the past year.

Started with XMP instability, then progressively lost its ability to run RAM, went from 4 sticks booting on XMP → 2 → 1, and now won't POST at all XMP or 2133 it doesn't matter.

Tested different RAM kits and a my old CPU 3500x with identical results. Everything gets stuck on the RAM red error light

PSU is a Corsair Gold 650 so unlikely to be that. CPU is a 5800X3D.

Looking at the MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus and the B550 Gaming WiFi (White board with no built in IO cover, not the same as "edge" model)

I'm really spooked by this behavior and kinds don't want to be burned by boards again, anyone has experience on if the two above have decent RAM traces that won't degrade on me?

I'm trying to move from an implementation role to pre-sales at a GRC platform company. I feel like I aced all the interviews so far. I'm also coming from a small org that sold their software and where "everyone does everything," so this means I do have experience with the SE type tasks like dealing with customers, collecting requirements and feedback, especially since I was good at talking to people so it slowly got all the Teams calls duties. But also, I have no experience with sitting on the actual sales calls and seeing the parts that the customer got sold on the product and all the stuff that goes along with that.

I have done quite a bit of research into presenting myself as someone who understands sales stuff and all, and I do feel like I gave a good sales answer to their questions due to good rehearsing, but I still feel like, sitting in front of a live panel, I'm not super confident about keeping up with things they're looking for. My mock practice keeps feeling too technical and like an engineer trying to awkwardly rephrase things in business lingo rather than a sales answer.

The written requirements for what the panel/presentation should cover haven't dropped yet, so what I know about it so far from the last interview I had is "simulate a customer meeting where they've not decided to go with you yet." and “We want to see how you prepare for those sessions, what materials you’d cover, what expectations there are from a demonstration or from a POC perspective.”

What are the things you feel I need to learn and try to get better at that I would miss due to not being a salesperson by nature? I should mention they said it's fine to not even use their software, so I'm under the impression they wanna test sales skills, not technical ones. That part is probably already done with.