New pc has crashing issues.

That would take weeks or months for the things I can get manufacturer warranty on, however the CPU was bought second hand. All in all that is not a workable solution for me. By the way I'm running windows 7 with no OC. Thanks anyway though.

Install a Linux and stress test there. Too bad about the used part. Usually why folk dump things like that.

AMD rigs are notorious for this here. When we see this, we quote out new motherboard, CPU, RAM and PSU. Maker's do not have good diagnostics and by law we can not exceed a repair quote.

Be sure to google that motherboard with the words "crashing" and "reboot".

However as for searching for similar problems with the mono, seems that it could be anything from a bad PSU to driver conflicts and anywhere in between. I will try that Linux idea out in a few hours and get back to you, thanks.

I'll give that a shot right away.

Do you think I should leave voltage settings on auto for that?

Auto is fine for voltages.

PS. If Windows boots, I can also curb the CPU use by reducing core usage with this setting.

Read https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/66504-processors-limit-number-used-windows-7-a.html

I tried the under clock by lowering my multiplier in half, the game had a lower frame rate and still crashed. I'm going to go back to standard clock, is there a way to select specifically which cores get disabled with this setting?

But it has helped me find out if it's the CPU. Remember, as I worked repair shops (not as tech but lead or owner) you won't see me build what you built. They just show up too often with crash issues.

That option in ms config is just for booting, not for application usage.

After a reboot I see that I was wrong.

I was a bit worried about the CPU Watts and the PSU but that should be OK. Unless the motherboard is used too.

However the Motherboard is brand new, as is the PSU and obviously the GPU since they just came out not too long ago.

So either that one core is bad, or it's something else.

There's not much to point to but that CPU or the install.

I'm not there to check your work. That is, heat sink compound, issues that folk get into with mismatched RAM, old CPUs, recycled, old parts.

Crashing on a single core points to basic issues. Motherboard, CPU, RAM.

I applied it exactly as arctic fox and amd recommend, and the stress tests never got the thing too hot. I will order more thermal paste and get back to you in a few days when it arrives, I will also be able to try out a different mother board with an Intel pentium anniversary edition. Thanks so much for all of your help.

There are many reasons for this machine to do that but the recurring fix for the AMD shop hounds has been new CPU and motherboard and too often RAM and a shiny single rail PSU that we step up in size.

We've tried to pull this back from the edge with underclocking and running single core.

There's a little more in some BIOS's such as disabling L2/L3 cache and Virtual Technologies but we only do that in extreme cases where we don't have spare parts to fix and the client wants to limp along till parts arrive.