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Recently I've been experiencing numerous system crashes that are not BSODs, especially during gaming. The way my system crashes is that the system will freeze up, as in there are not outputs for any inputs, not even mouse movements, and a looped sound will be played. I've already reinstalled my...

A chip is not supposed to thermal throttle at 50 degrees Celsius though. Try re positioning the fans so that they are all exhaust fans.

How are your temperatures? It is possible that it is thermal throttling. Did you try to overclock it? Restore the BIOS settings to default to see if that does anything. How is the CPU usage when you're not doing anything?

I would first monitor the CPU to see if it is reaching maximum usage even though you are not doing heavy lifting on the computer. Then I would restore the BIOS settings to default in case there was a OC. Next I would re-apply the thermal compound.

You might have set a FPS limit on your game or another program that is running in the background has priority. Identical components don't necessarily mean identical performance because there might be errors in the manufacturing process that might make one product inferior to another. You don't...

The only 2 major difference between the older i7-4790k and the newer i7-6700k is that of a future upgrade path and DDR4 memory. The Skylake processors and MoBos are a bit expensive now because they are still relatively new and hot. If you have the money and don't mind spending a bit more, I...

It can be possible that your system does not allow any upgrades to the CPU. It is also possible that the chip is dead. So if it is still within the return period, I would return it and purchase a different one.

The latest BIOS version for your motherboard is CF94510J[1].15A.0038. What this means is that you already have the latest BIOS version. Upgrading the CPU on an OEM system is tricky because some manufacturers don't allow any changes. Was the chip pulled from a working system?