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I get a bluescreen every few hours

bhra0

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Here are my specs:
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X + Be Quiet! Dark Rock 4 Pro
- ASUS Prime X570-P
- RAM 64GB DDR4 3200Mhz Kingston
- ASUS RTX 3080 10GB
- 500GB SSD Samsung 980 PRO M.2
- PSU 1000W GOLD Gigabyte
- Windows 11

The PC has been working fine for one year, but in the last month I have started getting frequent bluescreens for no reason. I use it mainly for video editing, so it crashes mostly during video editing or render, but sometimes it crashes when browsing the internet or writing a word document. The crashes are caused mostly by ntoskrnl.exe, sometimes by watchdog.sys (I look it up in WhoCrashed). Bluescreens code differ, but it's mostly something about video memory issues (VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL or DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER, less ofter KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE).

What I already tried:
- updating GPU drivers
- updating Windows
- updating BIOS
- running chkdsk
- running FurMark test, to my suprise it doesn't cause any problems

After one of the bluescreens I could't connect to the Internet, because Windows couldn't see a network card. I need to call an IT technician, who managed to repair it. He said the Bluescreens problem is caused by Alienware app (for my monitor). I uninstalled it, but the problem still exist, I get few bluescreens daily at random moments.

Do you have any idea, what else should I try? Thank you in advance.
 
First, download memtest86 and create a bootable USB: https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm
Once the test finishes (could take 5+ hours on 64GB of RAM), if no errors are detected start testing the CPU with tools like CoreCycler https://github.com/sp00n/corecycler/releases/tag/v0.9.3.0 (leave it running overnight) and yCruncher for at least 2h http://numberworld.org/y-cruncher/ (select 1-7-0 as options when running it, stress test with all options enabled)

Once you've finished testing those report back.
 
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