Upgraded PC Freezing under load

[BRAINE00]

Hi, I have recently upgraded my computer components and high end games freeze between 5m -1h of playing. 

hardware specs;

CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 5950x 16 core

GPU: MSI NVidia GFORCE RTX 2060 (unchanged)

Motherboard: ROG STRIX B550-F gaming

RAM: Corsair ddr4 2x32gb 3200mhz vengeance LPX

Storage: Crucial MX500 2TB CT2000MX500SSD (boot drive)(unchanged)

PSU: Corsair 850w semi modular (unchanged)

 

software;

system type: x64-based pc

windows 11

bios version/ date: American megatrends Inc. 1205, 17/11/2020

 

The system turns on and is fine doing low to mid strain activities and everything is showing correctly in the bios. But when I play games like AC Valhalla or Battlefront 2 the system freezes, the time and my background freezes but I am still able to do some things like move my mouse and open the windows tab, sometimes (not often) I am even able to open task manager and close the application, even ASUS armoury crate and the task manager performance monitor

freeze. But I still have to hard reset my pc to get everything back properly.

 

I have:

- installed all resent windows updates

- checked and clean installed my graphics driver (516.94)

- verified game integrity files on several of the games and fully reinstalled some (all ok)

- monitored temperatures before freezing (nothing out of the ordinary) GPU 83⁰, CPU 70⁰ stable 

- stress tested CPU on CPU-Z for 5h ok 70⁰ and stable.

- ran the windows memory diagnostic twice on defaults (all ok)

- checked security of cables inside the case all seem fine, all fans working etc. 

- set ram from 2133mhz to 3200mhz as advertised on the box (found as a suggestion online)

 

The problem still persists after all of the above.

I am stuck on any other software to check and update, but I'm becoming more convinced that it is a hardware issue, in that I have a damaged/ faulty component or I have installed something incorrectly. As this issue has just started after the upgrades I would assume that my GPU, storage and PSU are all ok but since this is my first time I have been relying on the little I know and bits I can piece together on the internet. 

Thank you for any help 

[SimplyChunk]

What cooler are you using?  did you reapply thermal paste?  Are you sure the cooler and CPU are seated properly.  I'm not familiar with the stress test on CPU-Z.  Try running Prime95 or Cinebench and see what happens

[BRAINE00]

I am using a be quiet! BK022 dark rock pro 4 250w TDP CPU cooler.

How would you tell if it is seated properly, I tightened both screws down until I felt resistance, they are also spring loaded and I did apply thermal paste. 

 

I will run those tests now.

 

do you suspect the CPU?

[BRAINE00]

I ran prime95 for 3H, CPU usage was stable the whole time, but the temperature fluctuated a bit, mostly at 65⁰ but increasing to 89⁰ at its max but most commonly around 85⁰ every 15-20m or so, at the end I checked and no error were detected.

I have no idea if this is good or not.  

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15 hours ago, BRAINE00 said:

bios version/ date: American megatrends Inc. 1205, 17/11/2020

You have to update. There are 11 newer BIOS versions for your motherboard. Update to the latest.

 

15 hours ago, BRAINE00 said:

Motherboard: ROG STRIX B550-F gaming

 

[BRAINE00]

I updated the bios and it still happened.

However I thought that if my back ground is freezing could it be wallpaper engine, so I uninstalled it and I've been playing a mix oh high load games for about 5-6 hours with no issues. 

Hopefully that has done the trick, thank you all for your help.