r/Microcenter

Picked up a G765 from Micro Center this week. Getting hard freezes and sudden resets, almost always at idle or light load (never while gaming so far).

Specs:

• Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Gigabyte B850 Gaming WiFi6, BIOS F11b (AGESA ComboAM5PI 1.3.0.0a)
• 2x16GB TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan DDR5-6000, running XMP 1 (not EXPO)
• RTX 5080 (Gigabyte), driver 32.0.16.1742
• T-Force TM8FFE002T 2TB NVMe
• Stock PowerSpec PSU (unbranded?)
• Windows 11 26H2

Symptoms:

• Two failure modes: (1) full hard lock where the clock freezes, no mouse/keyboard, have to hold power; (2) screen goes black and it drops straight to the BIOS splash and reboots
• ~5 incidents in the first 10 hours, including one ~60 seconds after boot and one overnight while idle

Logs:

• Every event is Kernel-Power 41 with BugcheckCode 0
• No minidumps (dumps are enabled), no WHEA errors, no nvlddmkm/TDR events, no disk/NVMe errors, no problem devices in Device Manager

Tried so far:

• Reseated both RAM sticks, the GPU 12V-2x6 and the 24-pin
• BIOS: Power Supply Idle Control set to Typical Current Idle. This cut it to one reset in ~15 hours (3 AM, idle), but it didn't fix it
• Next: disabling XMP to run at 4800

Questions:

1. Anyone else with a G765 / B850 Gaming WiFi6 seeing idle resets? Did a BIOS update, RAM swap or PSU swap fix it?
2. Is the XMP-only T-Force kit a known issue in these builds?
3. Does anyone know which OEM makes the G765's PSU and its wattage/rating?
4. If XMP-off doesn't fix it, did Micro Center swap the unit or repair it?

Obviously the thing is under warranty but I'm trying to avoid a return/exchange if it's something I can fix.

Thanks!

https://www.microcenter.com/product/715409/apple-mac-mini-mhqk4ll-a-(mid-2026)-desktop-computer

* USA Only
* In Person Only, will not ship
* Location dependent; check your location has stock
* No membership or etc. required

This is a really good deal for a just-released model. It’s $100 less than their deal from a week ago, and $100 less than Apple Edu pricing.

They do not have the 16/500 model on similar sale; it’s only $100 off (which still matches Apple Edu).

They do not have the M5 Pro mini marked down at all.

The M5 Max Studio offering is still available, marked down by 20%, $500, to $2000.

There are worse things than trading in the M4 16/256 mini for $565 Apple Credit and then using cash to buy this at $699.

Wondering what brand GPU and Ram Microcenter generally uses for the PowerSpec builds. Am i going to end up with the cheapest/crappiest brand GPU and CL40 ram? Im looking at the G732. Wont be gaming much if at all, more for processing large stacks of image files and any amount of applicable juice to speed up that process would be nice but i suppose not explicitly necessary. Just not sure if outright building with best components would be smarter or just buy this base and upgrade to better components as needed down the road. At these current prices its hard to pull the trigger and end up with bottom of the barrel brands/quality

The claim: The Plugable UD-7400PD 5-Display Docking Station is the best and only mainstream docking hub capable of driving up to five external monitors from a single connection on an M2 MacBook Air. [1]

Why This Hub Works for Your M2 MacBook Air

• DisplayLink Technology: Your Apple M2 chip natively supports only one external display through standard hardware routing. The Plugable UD-7400PD bypasses this limitation by using DisplayLink software drivers to process multiple video streams over a standard USB-C port. [1, 2]
• Monitor Ports: It features one HDMI 2.1 port (up to 8K at 30Hz or scaled resolutions), one HDMI 2.0 port (4K at 60Hz), and three USB-C DisplayLink ports (each supporting 4K at 60Hz). [1]
• Power and Peripherals: According to Plugable, it delivers up to 140W of charging power to your host laptop, includes a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port, and features fast front-facing USB-A and USB-C data ports. [1]
• Software Requirement: You must download and install the DisplayLink manager driver on your macOS system and grant the necessary screen-recording permission (used strictly to pipe pixel data to the external screens, with no data storage) for all five monitors to activate. [1]

^^^^^ Just wanted to check with the community to verify this is correct before spending on this since it's a bit pricey. Also asking for other options if this isn't true.

My specs:

Model Name: MacBook Air

Model Identifier: Mac14,2

Model Number: Z1610005ELL/A

Chip: Apple M2

Total Number of Cores: 8 (4 Performance and 4 Efficiency)

Memory: 16 GB