FX8350 Freezing While Rendering in Sony Vegas

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ok, some of you may know I recently upgraded from an FX8150 to an FX8350. When I had my FX8150 installed, I never had this issue, but now that the FX8350 is installed, I have a problem where my computer freezes at a random time while rendering (1080P) in Sony Vegas Pro 12.

I render with CPU instead of GPU acceleration because Sony Vegas freezes in mid render when trying to render 1080P with GPU acceleration (and this is a known issue).

initially I thought it was a memory issue because my corsair vengeance memory was now perhaps 4 - 5 years old, but I purchased new memory, and the issue persists, so I'm almost certain its the CPU.

I've contacted Asrock to see if maybe a Bios update might fix this issue, but I haven't received a reply back as of yet.

Things I've tried:
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Sony Vegas, initially I thought this had worked as I got way farther in the render, but I woke up to find my computer frozen

What I'm trying next is seeing if rendering with the sony vegas window minimized might help this situation any.

other than that, I'm not sure what the issue is here... I know that when I had my FX8150, I applied a hotfix to increase its stability and performance, I wonder if there's anything like that for the FX8350. I know there is, but I keep reading its only for Windows 7 users, and users with Windows 8 have no need for it, and I am a Windows 8.1 64bit user.
 

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ok, I just tried applying the thermal paste in the way you suggested, I haven't tried rendering yet, but before the re-application it used to idle at about 40C, now it fluctuates between 30 and 40C, but mostly staying in the 33C range

I'll try rendering again, and see at what temperature it gets to now
 

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seems to stop at a solid 58 Degrees Celsius

that's at least 8 degrees lower (and potentially more depending on when it actually used to freeze), than before, so until now, the paste re-application method seems to have payed off.

I won't say its solved till this video renders fully, but I have a feeling the issue is most likely solved :)
 

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I also feel that re-fitting the cpu to the socket had something to do with it. I can't be certain, but it seems slightly too convenient that just a few degrees made all the difference, since i've read that another user Ran the same CPU to about 79 degrees and still stable, lol