8700k 4.4ghz 1.26v LLC6
maximus x formula
16gb gskill tridentz rgb 3000mhz 16-18-18-38
Samsung 970 evo 500gb (OS)
Toshiba something something HDD + 16gb intel optane memory
EVGA 1080 FTW 2 (no OC)
Windows 10 1803 (still)
I usually have hwinfo, coretemp for monitoring and I close all programs except precision XOC + LED sync, TT RGB plus software for my AIO fans, and the Logitech gaming mouse software. I've always run it exactly like this and there were never any issues before hand. My stock settings could NEVER pass a realbench stress test, always crashes even at stock, but the benchmarking utility never had issues with multiple consecutive runs like it does now.