About 2 months ago I bought a new PC and I've been having freezing issues. It manifests as a gradual freeze. Let's say I play football manager on 1 screen and I have a youtube video running on my second screen. When the freeze begins, the computer becomes unresponsive: I click on buttons but nothing happens, the video freezes while the audio continues for the data that has already been downloading. When I try and open new windows/apps, they don't load information anymore. If I try to restart from the start menu nothing happens. The only remedy is to manually shut down and then everything is fine.
The freezes are irregular: things can be fine for 1-2 weeks then it happens again and sometimes twice in a day. I've looked at metrics with HWMonitor and I did not see anything that stands out. During a freeze the CPU was at 23% and RAM at 37%. Temperatures were fine. I can't confirm for every instance since I can't predict when it happens and I don't always have it open.
My first instinct was to suspect one my 2 RAM sticks since they are new (alongside the motherboard & CPU). I ran memtest a few times and I found no issues. I took one out, then swapped them but I still get the freeze. Also, no crash reports so no luck there 🙁. I think it is unlikely to be the GPU and SSDs since I moved them from my old machine. Drivers are up to date. I now supect either the motherboard or the CPU but I can't tell what the source of the freezing is. Can anyone help?
OS: Windows 10
Motherboard: ROG STRIX Z790-A Gaming Wifi II
CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K
GPU: nVidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
RAM: 2x16GB DDR5 Corsair Vengeance
PSU: Corsair 850W RMx Series Modular 80 Plus Gold
The freezes are irregular: things can be fine for 1-2 weeks then it happens again and sometimes twice in a day. I've looked at metrics with HWMonitor and I did not see anything that stands out. During a freeze the CPU was at 23% and RAM at 37%. Temperatures were fine. I can't confirm for every instance since I can't predict when it happens and I don't always have it open.
My first instinct was to suspect one my 2 RAM sticks since they are new (alongside the motherboard & CPU). I ran memtest a few times and I found no issues. I took one out, then swapped them but I still get the freeze. Also, no crash reports so no luck there 🙁. I think it is unlikely to be the GPU and SSDs since I moved them from my old machine. Drivers are up to date. I now supect either the motherboard or the CPU but I can't tell what the source of the freezing is. Can anyone help?
OS: Windows 10
Motherboard: ROG STRIX Z790-A Gaming Wifi II
CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K
GPU: nVidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
RAM: 2x16GB DDR5 Corsair Vengeance
PSU: Corsair 850W RMx Series Modular 80 Plus Gold
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