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Aha, I am certainly more of a tinkering-guy, and just as you wrote that I managed to solve it. Essentially, I took a look in the Event Viewer, and I found the issue in there. Weirdly enough, it was caused by the Origin Web Helper Service. I very, very rarely use Origin, so I had disabled the...

I have tried it after clearing CMOS, aswell as having run the system with a spyware scan, without success. I have put off the Windows-reinstall, though. Would you consider that the next step?

Forgot to mention, the issue persists even if I do not use an external drive. But yes, I always have it plugged in. X99 based system, ASUS X99 WS/SE, Intel Core i7-5820K (slightly overclocked), HyperX Savage DDR4 @ 2666 (slightly changed the timings), ASUS GTX1070 Dual OC (stock) and it's...

Evening! The issue started a while back, but I have not bothered about it until now. Essentially, when I boot into Windows (just after the log in screen) it takes a while for the system to respond properly. It's a bit tricky to describe but this is how it goes. If I try to access any...

Excellent. Report back if you manage to solve it!

Okay. Then I have no further idea, unfortunately. I'd get in touch with Intel themselves and see what they say.

I see. I have one final idea of what might cause this. What power plan do you use in Windows (if you use Windows, ofcourse)? Make sure that it's not in Power Saver, or similar, as that may prevent the CPU from overclocking.

There certainly seems to be no issue there. Have you updated your system drivers recently? If not, do that. Perhaps you could try to update the BIOS aswell, if you have the availability to. Strange issue, this.

The essential ones are Chipset, Audio, VGA (for integrated video output) and LAN. SATA could be great if you have some SATA ports not driven by the chipset, that require a driver to work properly. As for the rest, they are up to you.

Okay. As it seems, the CPU is not using Turbo Boost at all. Have you tried to reset your BIOS options to their default values? Turbo Boost should be applied by default. You could also run the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool to see if it finds a problem. What power supply do you use? Is there...

That's odd. What is the usage of the cores when you run the tests?

What is your cooling solution, and what temperatures do you have on the package and on the cores? This could be caused by thermal throtteling (i.e when the CPU forces itself to run slower due to overheating). Alternatively, it could be how Intel's Turbo Boost technology works. The CPU cores need...

How much utilisation are there on the cores when you see these temperatures, and what does it read during load? Also, you have listed five temperature readings - are four for the cores and the fifth for the package? One scenario might be that the pump in your AIO are not working properly. Can...

The thing is, that the system might be very powerful for some occasions but not others (Xeons are not excellent at gaming, but runs excellently great in a video production environment or in a server, for instance). So, it depends on what you are going to use the hardware for. But for that money...

That's excellent. No crashes since?