Bizzare system crashes after over clock

Chaos Marine

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I've recently upgraded my computer's motherboard, cpu and ram. I have a 5820k i7, 32GB of ram (4x 8GB sticks) and a 980GTX. My motherboard is a Asus X99-A.

At the moment, my GPU is at 22C, and at idle, my i7 is running across 27-34 across all six cores. When I'm gaming, the temperatures will run to 40C on my GPU and anything from 35-45C across my CPU's cores. Everything works away perfectly fine, no performance hiccups or some such. The following morning I start my computer and after seeing my desktop, I get a BSOD which gives me no error codes to search. Thanks Microsoft, really handy that. It always happens when I boot up after a heavy gaming session. I can restart several times in a row and nothing bad happens.

Has anyone else had this problem? My overclock is to 4GHz by the way. I ran a stress test for a few hours and nothing bad happened.

[Edit] I forgot to mention, the ram I'm using is ram specifically listed in the acceptable ram tested and verified by Asus to work perfectly in the X99-A board.
 
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Your overclock is unstable simple as that!

Just because you can run a stress test for a few hours does not mean your system is stable, you can run a stress test all week long and still be unstable!

Why?

Because CPU stress testing programs do not test Graphic and Audio load.

CPU stress testing is only your first step in discovering the actual settings needed to become 100% stable.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2345618/reaching-cpu-overclocking-stability.html

 
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