Question 1 year sporadic crashing predicament

[davidRof]

Hi, I have been experiencing a major pain in the backside for the past year. My PC has been sporadically crashing every once in a while, sometimes a few times a week, and would also crash a couple more times every time I try to reboot, until I shut off the PSU, wait a couple hours, and it's back to normal. I notice that it usually crashes when I'm doing some intensive RAM/CPU task, but very randomly, what I mean by this is that I do the exact same task that crashed me in the first place and yet it doesnt crash, and other times it does. I have scoured well over 100 different threads on numerous different websites searching for any potential fix and yet I still prevailed. One thing to note is that I used to get numerous BSODs about 2 years ago, but then they miraculously halted, then this crashing issue occurred, very weird. This issue is extremely hard to diagnose because the crashes occur at irregular intervals, I try one fix, I think it worked, 1 month later the crashing ensues. It is a painfully slow, gruelling and exhausting game of whack-a-mole. I have been playing this cat and mouse game for a year 😭😭😭


I'll list some of the remedies I tried below.
- Used poolmon.exe to search for memory leaks > No issues found.

- Updated all my drivers from the motherboard website with the exception of the GPU and CPU, I used Geforce Experience and AMD Driver Auto-Detect > Problem still occurred.

- Used Windows Memory Diagnostic > No issues found.

- Performed a clean boot, checked services and programs > No issues found.

- My XMP Profile for my ram is unstable, XMP is rated at 4000Mhz and yet I can only acquire a stable 3400Mhz-3600Mhz without it crashing. It is currently running on 3400 Mhz, perhaps that's an issue?

- Windows Defender ran a couple times > No issues found.

- Dust and debris build up/loose wire connections/expired thermal compound > I did a full clean-out of my PC, used Arctic MX-4 to re-paste both GPU and CPU, and tightly secured any potentially loose cables. CPU temps are still high and PC still crashing.

I literally have no idea why I never checked my CPU temps until now, I was shocked. My PC is frequently idling at abnormally high CPU temps for no apparent reason. I'm talking 70-110c, and also the temps rise extremely abnormally aswell, like it's counting seconds, +1c, +1c, +1c. I literally sat on BIOS and watched it soar from 73c to 114c, and as soon as it hit 114c it crashed. I'm not sure if this is a temp visual bug or if it's truly reaching these temps. This CPU temp issue is also the reason why I decided to fully clean-out my PC, but as you can see, even after re-pasting, cleaning, and re-securing wires, the temps still remained. This is why I'm more inclined to believe it's a bug, did I also mention that theres 9x fans in the case and the CPU is being cooled by a 360mm AIO? It's hard to believe that the temps are THAT bad.

Please help me, this issue has progressively drained me of my hope, sanity, and energy. I am literally about to lose my shit because of this PC.

PC Specs:

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti Vision

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700x

Motherboard: Aorus x570 Elite WiFi

Case: Lian Li 011 Dynamic XL ROG

CPU Cooler: Silverstone PF360

Fans: 9x Silverstone Air Blazer 120r

Ram: 4x8 DDR4 4000Mh z Trident Z

Power Supply: Corsair HX850

Operating System: Windows 10

 

[Grobe]

Ok, this one is hard. Using an ai search engine may prove some hints about relevant questions about failure rates on mobo and gpu, but of course cannot provide any definitive answers :

what is the expected failure rate of Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti Vision ?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-kmhz_AKGSMiOJUiFPKempA

what is the expected failure rate of Aorus x570 Elite WiFi ?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-zNcn57NeTDGlNwSIyo7nIw

Btw: I'd recommend disabling XMP profile and then over time observe if the computer runs without further crashing.