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I experienced problems with 5950X as well and nobody (including myself) seemed to believe it was the CPU before I got another 5950X which just worked with the same setup.

The issue wasn't easy to reproduce, all standard checks and torture tests ran just fine but much more random workload crashed the unit when all cores were maxed for few seconds at a time instead (eg. during compiling). Sometimes it happened twice a day sometimes once a week.



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