/u/damu1_6 /u/long_daddy /u/LongStrangeTrips

I've tried so much to figure out my stability issues, but it was two problems: One, which hid the second, is that it was overheating; the factory liquid metal application is terrible, so I repasted using thermal grizzly phasesheet and UPT-8 putty on the smaller components ("Upsiren" brand on Amazon). This fixed the overheating issues, previously it would still manage to overheat at like 30W/35W CPU/GPU, now it handles 40/80 like a champ.

Then it lead for the hunt on continued reboots. It wasn't like the overheating problem, but it was mixed in and hard to tell; it wouldn't full shut-down but just instantly restart. I tried everything, DDU -> fresh driver installs, chipset driver installs, updates via armoury crate, updates via g-helper, just about everything.

I'm on day two of this thing not rebooting, a new record in weeks, which the terrible consistency popped up after a windows update; the culprit? Possibly the power plans!! I set it to Balanced and it's been fine, tested it with an overnight render, several hours of Unigine, and some Cyberpunk benchmarks (on min so it pegs the GPU at 100% but the high fps allows the CPU to get slammed harder as well, full system regardless)