PC seemingly freezes once per day

Tagara · November 7, 2019

Hi. I just put together my new system on Monday, so I haven't had it for long. Ever since I finished the build I've had it crash once, more or less every single day that I've been using it since it was built.

Here's my specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X

Motherboard: Asus ROG X570-E Gaming (Latest BIOS installed)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 16GB DDR3 3600MHz (running @ 2666MHz)

GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5T

OS Storage: Samsung EVO 970 Plus 500GB (NVMe)

PSU: Cooler Master MWE Gold 550W

Crash history:

1. Not long after actually getting the PC booted up for the first time I knew I had to mess with RAM timings, etc. to have them running at their advertised speed. At the time I was not aware that XMP might be named something else for Asus / AMD systems. However I did attempt to turn up their speed to 3600MHZ, so at this point I'm assuming I only changed their speed, and nothing else. Started the PC and everything seemed fine, tried a game of League of Legends and the PC completely froze a few minutes in-game. I quickly reset the RAM speed and went back in. Everything worked fine after that incident for the rest of that evening.

2. I got on the PC, did some browsing before I booted up EVE: Online and logged in. For those who might be familiar with the game I just undocked my ship from the station, not long after my PC froze again in the same way as it did the first time. EVE isn't really a demanding title at all, even less so in comparison to LoL I'd imagine.

3. Today, again not long after booting it up for the day. Watched some YouTube when it froze once more. The picture on my screen just freezes and all sound disappears until I hold down the power button.

Notes / troubleshooting:

Being able to troubleshoot isn't really something I've had to do very much of in the past. I'll list any notes and / or troubleshooting steps I have done, and might do here.

1. After the 2nd crash, seeing as both were from playing a game, I decided to run a (very) short AIDA64 stability test to see how the system reacted. I only ran it for about 5 minutes however as I had to go, but the system was just fine.