Intel i7 4790k Blue Screen and Overheating Help!

Solid_Snake3

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Hey everyone! So I have run into a fairly unique problem, and I really wish I could find an answer, but alas I couldn't, so here I am asking for your assistance. So I edit videos on Premiere, and I always export using very high quality settings so YouTube can see the best that I can offer. Recently, I've ran into 2 blue screens before my video ended up rendering properly. It gave me something like WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR.

The other weird thing is that when I'm rendering something, task manager will show me that all threads are at full load. But, that's not the weird part. According to coretemp, my first two cores are nearly hitting TJ Max but my second two cores are just fine. I'm talking about a 30C difference here.
Here's a screenshot of one such instance: https://gyazo.com/e6b1fb89db53fe018e9f45ac4280a3fc
I don't understand what's going on. This hasn't happened to me before, I applied thermal compound properly as a small pea in the center, and I have a CM Hyper 212 EVO cooler which does not seem to be benefitting my CPU with better temps. My CPU is an Intel i7 4790k. Any help here guys?
 
Here's some things you can try to trouble shoot -
1. Check your CPU temps with stress testing programs to see if it's a problem with the rendering program or if it is a problem with the cores themselves.
2. Turn off the two cores that are overheating and try rendering to make sure that the others cores will actually do something when the computer wants them to.
3. Make sure the fans on your CPU cooler are running at the proper speed. If you can, borrow someone else's CPU cooler and see if there is a difference.
4. If all else fails you could really take matters into your own hands and take off the metal lid off your CPU to inspect the die itself, and replace the internal thermal compound. However, if you do this and try to use the warranty, Intel customer support will probably laugh at you and hang up (definitely voids the warranty).
 


Just tried stress testing, same result. I'm going to try the second method when I come back from school later, and I'm going to attempt 3 sometime soon, I have a very busy schedule this week. Also, I ran into another problem. When I got the BSODs, after the third one, my computer wouldn't boot anymore. On the debugger, I saw that the last code before it rebooted was 32, and that shows every single time before it restarts the loop. Thank goodness Gigabyte has a dual BIOS thing, otherwise my goose would have been cooked. I switched to the second BIOS and it booted fine, and I also finally had my first successful render off of Premiere Pro, so that's a good thing. I'm still having the problems with my first two cores heating up like crazy. I'm currently running off the second BIOS as I have no clue what happened to the first one and why it all of a sudden won't work. Something similar happened in the past and I did not get any "your BIOS is corrupted" messages. I fixed it by starting a flash off of QFlash, and pulling some switches so that instead of flashing my second BIOS it flashed my main BIOS, which worked, but I don't remember how I did it anymore. So any ideas of these BSOD's had anything to do with screwing up my BIOS? Thanks for your tips so far!