Rebooting/Stability issues (5900x system)

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I upgraded from a i7 9700K to a 5900X system and since doing so I am finding the 5900X system to be quite unstable.

I am using the same core components as before, all I have changed is the motherboard and CPU, the rest is the same as before, and reboots previously were pretty rare.

Full spec is:
  • Ryzen 5900X CPU
  • Asus Strik B550F-Gaming wifi motheboard
  • Corsair Dominator 3466 Mhz 32GB (2 x 16GB) RAM
  • Msi Gaming-X 2080 GPU
  • Seasonic 850W Prime Ultra PSU
  • Samsung 970 EVO 1TB NVME
All I have done in the BIOS is set the optimised defaults, and enabled DOCP on the RAM, which should match the specs of the RAM before when using 9700K and XMP.

My usage at the moment is light gaming and basic productivity work. BIOS version has been updated to the latest one I can find (2004) for this motherboard.

I can't play more than about 5-10 minutes of Europa Univeralis 4 without the machine rebooting itself, nothing in event viewer is logged when it does except for a message saying it couldn't create a dump file.

"Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation". Event source: volmgr. Event ID 161. Source: system log.

I have the most recent VGA and BIOS versions but neither really seem to be helping.

Any ideas on what I should test next are welcome! I am reluctant to do a full Windows reinstall but I think it might be a necessary eventuality.
 
I'm on 2404 (was on 1004) but yes I see it's beta, although I was having the same issues on previous BIOS so was kind of hoping the BIOS update would help.
 
For start you could set memory voltage manually to that specified for sticks.

And doing clean Windows install wouldn't be bad thing.
 
I've downloaded memtest and am testing each ram stick individually, one has passed all tests and the other one is still running but no errors found.

To be honest I think the ram is OK I've been running it for a long time on my Intel 9700k at xmp values without issue, but it's worth verifying with memtest. I'll let it run for a bit longer on the 2nd stick and see if that passes successfully too.
 
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