My system had been stable with a nice PBO offset, had delided my 9950X and all was working well, am one for hitting Windows Update, so am not sure if it was that. Last week I started experiencing freezes and Windows crashes, and had recently installed a second hand 4tb Lexar NVME, everything I tried just lead back to the freezes and reboots. I noticed today my VIDs were much lower than previously and the CPU sipping power at idle, the VID was dropping to around 0.4V and the cores dropping to 600mHz, the voltages had been higher before normally dropping to around 1.2V, I then had a play around with Power Plan settings and disabled USB and PCIe suspend and set the processor usage to 45%, voltages are still a little lower, but I haven't had a freeze or crash since.
To round it off my cat broke my door and hinge on my Fractal Design Define 7XL and and was shipped an X299 board with nothing covering the CPU socket, I think the consequences of that will be apparent, I did get a refund.
To round it off my cat broke my door and hinge on my Fractal Design Define 7XL and and was shipped an X299 board with nothing covering the CPU socket, I think the consequences of that will be apparent, I did get a refund.
