Question My PC crashes almost daily

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Hunter Camper

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My PC crashes regularly. Sometimes daily. Just today it crashed twice within 30 minutes. I get the blue screen that reads "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart".
I tried looking through the logs in Even Viewer, but I'll admit that I'm not very familiar with that. I was able to find 2 critical messages that match up with the times that my PC crashed but these are just messages that say that my PC rebooted after a crash. They don't give any info regarding the actual problem that caused the crash. If you guys can help me locate the crash logs, I'll be happy to share them with you. This has become so frustrating, never knowing when it will crash next. I'll add that this a custom build and the problem has been happening since the day I built it. I have done fresh re-installs of Windows three times to see if that would help, but nothing changes.

OS: Windows 11 Pro
Mobo: AsRock B550M-C
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Ram: 16gb DDR4 3200
GPU: XFX RX-580 8GB
SSD: Kingston NVME 1TB
PSU: Corsair CX600
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake UX100
3 case fans plus cpu fan with proper fan control setup
 
After weeks of trial and error by swapping out parts, I found the culprit today. It was the CPU. I swapped it out with a spare that I had, and it's running great. What a relief for all this to be over! Thank you to everyone that chimed in. I appreciate your help.
 
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After weeks of trial and error by swapping out parts, I found the culprit today. It was the CPU. I swapped it out with a spare that I had, and it's running great. What a relief for all this to be over! Thank you to everyone that chimed in. I appreciate your help.
Im starting to think its a CPU issue for me as well.
Ran memtest86 the other day and failed twice, replaced the ram and the new sticks of ram failed as well.
Friends are telling me its a CPU imc issue, telling me to replace it
I also have another guy telling me its a PSU issue due to power kennel 41 My post
 
Im starting to think its a CPU issue for me as well.
Ran memtest86 the other day and failed twice, replaced the ram and the new sticks of ram failed as well.
Friends are telling me its a CPU imc issue, telling me to replace it
I also have another guy telling me its a PSU issue due to power kennel 41 My post
Good luck. I was lucky. Since I regularly work on PC's for the family, and have built several units for them, I had spare parts lying around. So all it took was a bit of time, but no extra expense.