Dual Xeon win 10 reboot and freeze randomly

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Hi guys
recently I build a dual xeon PC with asus server mainboard and I use it as a workstation with windows 10 on it. When it boots up it works fine until I start to do rendering staff then it starts to freeze permanently and sometimes reboot without any blue-screen or something.
Mostly when I'm rendering with Houdini and after some random frames it reboots or freezes.
Also I checked my cpu temperature and it seems normal (about 64 max and 55 average when rendering).
I don't have a clue that what is causing this reboot or freeze so can you please show me how to track the problem of my system?
Thank you

Edit:
I removed second cpu and 4 ram and it seems to works. But I'm pretty sure its not about an specific software. Also I installed win 8.1 and Windows freezed again so I installed win 10 again.

Solution
Finally I found out that one of my memory modules had some issues so I installed it on the first slot and the mainboard couldn't load so I changed that single module and now everything is fine.

my config:
MB: Asus Z9PE-d16/2l
CPU: 2 x Xeon E5-2670 V1
RAM: 8 x corsair XMS 8GB 1600
VGA: Asus GTX 960 strix
SSD: Samsung 120 Gb 850 EVO, and 2 x WD 2 and 4 T Blue
Cooling: 2 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
PSU: xigmatek vector g 750w gold
 


Hi Paul.
I do't know about PSU problem but I can check bios and update it if it's simple enough. could it be from incompatibility of win 10 on my mainboard or my RAMs and mainboard?
 
I made similar build but with Intel board. You can see my build here. I had posting problems, and post was too long. Sometimes I had problem during boot, freezing. System restarts after sleep. Computer was good at idle but it just restart with no BSOD while rendering.
Intel has advanced BMC system for recording and remote bios diagnostic. I had a lot of CATERR-processor errors in log. I thought to buy new processors. Problem was not so obvious...... But I found solution.

I used Chieftec CFT750-14cs modular PSU. This psu has only one 8 pin connector for CPU but both processors needs power, so I modified one 6pin GPU cable, I solder 8 pin connector and use it for second CPU. Motherboard I used had 4 pin power socket also, so I put 4 pin connector from PSU. THIS WAS CATASTROPHIC ERROR!!! When you connect 4 pin connector to motherboard socket, second CPU use this as primary power source and it seems that turn off 8 pin power connection, but e5-2670 is 115W so this connection is not enought. I just removed 4 pin connector from motherboard and everything works GREAT!
 

Hi srmarkovic, thanks for the reply.
This is a very similar scenario but I don't have a 4 pin connector on my MB. at first I had a psu with one 8 pin so I changed my psu with this one and now I have connected the two 8 pin to the MB. But based on what you've faced I'm now really suspect of my psu. Maybe it can't be stable enough on this usage amount. Anyway, I should test all other possibilities before going for another change.