MAIN QUESTION: is there anything Bios related I should change (C states disabled reduces BSODs) or should I just buy a new Mobo or CPU.
Current build: Asus B550-F Gaming, Ryzen 5 3600XT, Corsair 2x8gb ddr4-3200mhz CL16, EVGA RTX 3070, Crucial MX300 m.2 525gb, 1000w power supply. Note as well nothing is overclocked or undervolted. Running auto on ram at 2133mhz + auto on cpu and gpu, 0 tweaks made as if I just put together the entire thing.
Previously had an rtx 3080 + a 750w gold psu + running a larger newer drive and 2 more ssds. This may have been a bottle neck and i’m curious if it could have damaged the old PSU which then damaged the rest of the pc. My new line of work warrants me now using a gaming laptop as i’m away from home more than I am there. My goal with my Desktop is to make it usable for my fiancé. Shes not as tech literate though and I don’t want her to deal with constant crashing issues.
The Desktop has had issues for a while that slowly built up probably started about 9-12 months ago. Started out as a BSOD once in a blue moon, really thought little of it. Now Its probably more like a BSOD at least once per day (gaming for about 2-4 hours, league of legends specifically so nothing that gets it too hot).
At first I thought there was an issue with the 3080 I was running at the time and a possible bottleneck between it and the 750w power supply. My first thought was upgrade PSU to 1000w but I still crashed. 2nd option was buy a 3070 in case its a gpu issue as it mostly happens during game (it has happened while idle though), but after that I still crash. After this I ran Memtest86 and after 2 full rotations ~3hrs on the test it reported 0 issues. Iv’e noticed as well that disabling C States in the Bios has reduced the amount of crashes overall. Ive also tried running it with the side panel off to help temps even more but still crashing (note I generally monitor temps and they have been well within reason even on hot spots). I have also fully wiped the pc and am now running windows 11 near clean and have ran sfc /scannow + dism to make sure after each crash nothing is hurt but still constant crashing. Iv’e also loaded defaults on the mobo bios so nothing is tuned, ram is not being pushed, and still crashing. Bios is also flashed and up to date.
I’m curious if at this point it really comes down to just replacing either the mobo or cpu to fix this issue or if there are any bios tweaks I can make to at least reduce the crashing back to being once in a blue moon. One of my minidumps does indicate that there is a possible hardware error with either the Mobo or Ram as the error type is a Double Fault (exception 0x8).
Minidumps from BSODs if you would like to look, mostly farmed with C States set to enabled: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XFujcyJtKNDi4yt5I03adCPJYhR6zD7_?usp=sharing