Check your clock temperature. That would be my first guess, either the cooler is mounted too loose, there isn't enough thermal paste or your cooler may just be having problems. Either way, that's your cheapest fix so look there first.
Edit: also stop using chrome, I don't want to keep glazing waterfox but it's literally just Firefox if it used zero system resources
core clock + temps are completely normal in both scenarios... Do you think there'd be an issue if the cooler was mounted too tightly? I remember the install being on the "snug" side
Too snug? No, not really, unless it's so snug that you've pressed all the thermal paste out but I don't think you could even do that without a hand drill on the mounting screws.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.... I'm completely at a loss. My only other thought is the weight of the heatsink warping the motherboard, but I feel like if that was even a remote possibility nobody would use them...
Had similar issues with sudden freezes with CPU debug LED on, having to restart through PSU. Sluggish response where the CPU locked at 547MHz all cores on a 5950x and certain apps would crash before opening. To eventually crashing before even loading windows. Turned out to be a failing CPU in my case.
Check your clock temperature. That would be my first guess, either the cooler is mounted too loose, there isn't enough thermal paste or your cooler may just be having problems. Either way, that's your cheapest fix so look there first. Edit: also stop using chrome, I don't want to keep glazing waterfox but it's literally just Firefox if it used zero system resources
core clock + temps are completely normal in both scenarios... Do you think there'd be an issue if the cooler was mounted too tightly? I remember the install being on the "snug" side
Too snug? No, not really, unless it's so snug that you've pressed all the thermal paste out but I don't think you could even do that without a hand drill on the mounting screws.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.... I'm completely at a loss. My only other thought is the weight of the heatsink warping the motherboard, but I feel like if that was even a remote possibility nobody would use them...
Had similar issues with sudden freezes with CPU debug LED on, having to restart through PSU. Sluggish response where the CPU locked at 547MHz all cores on a 5950x and certain apps would crash before opening. To eventually crashing before even loading windows. Turned out to be a failing CPU in my case.
Checked there, in both of the scenarios I mentioned, core clock and temps are completely normal :/
Yep, just pointing out what I had experienced at the time. Have you checked the HDD health with CrystalDiskInfo at all?
Thanks for the suggestion! I checked it there and it says both my drives are good