r/AMDHelp

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: XFX 9070XT MERCURY

CPU: RYZEN 7 9850X3D 8 CORE 16 THREADS

CPU COOLER: ARCTIC LIQUID FREEZER III 360MM

Motherboard: GIGABYTE X870 AORUS STEALTH

BIOS Version: F7d

RAM: 32GB TEAMGROUP EXPERT T-CREATE 6000MHZ CL30

PSU: LIAN LI EDGE 1000W 80+ GOLD FULLY MODULAR

Case: LIAN LI O11 MINI V2

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 HOME 26H2

GPU Drivers: AMD ADRENALIN 26.8.1

Chipset Drivers: AMD X870 AORUS STEALTH CHIPSET DRIVERS VERSION 8.03.25.247

Background Applications: DISCORD, FIREFOX

Description of Original Problem: Okay, ill start by saying this build is less than a month old, all parts are new, and this was my first time really building a pc (turned on first time im the goat I know). Getting that out of the way, my issues initially started with me upgrading my 7800x3d to this 9850x3d and I had initially gotten a -20 pbo curve going fine and everything was really stable until I was seeing that I had 8 threads instead of 16. I spent hours trying to figure out why and I was using google search ai to figure this out (big mistake), as I ended up reinstalling windows to try and give myself a fresh slate, but I had to do it multiple times as I kept dealing with corruption issues. (btw I now know it was just x3d turbo or whatever its called in the bios im an idiot) I did literally hours upon hours of troubleshooting just for the corruption till I made a new usb install and that fixed my corruption on windows. After that my system was still really unstable as I would initially crash doing just about anything, afk a game? crash. Open up firefox and discord too fast at boot? crash. Try and fix my corruption from these crashes through means such as cmd prompt dism restorehealth and sfc scannow and all that, I would just crash. And these crashes were bad too, like the pc would freeze and become unresponsive and the only way to get out of it was to hold the power button until it turned off. After I got through all of that, I updated my bios from F5 to F7d and everything seemed stable and okay and most importantly I wasnt randomly crashing, until I tried turning pbo on. I started with -20 all cores because I had previously ran that just fine, bootloop city. After I unplugged everything from the psu and replugged everything because honestly I was lost at what it could be, I was stuck with code 97 on my motherboard and I couldn't even post. Spent hours trying to fix that and was like whatever let me try updating my bios offline since I still had my usb with the update and I could do it offline with the Q Flash. That actually worked and thats where I am now, everything is stable and I havent crashed since, however I only have expo on in bios and I changed my fan curve to silent because it was pretty loud. Other than that im running stock bios settings and I still have an itch to get more performance and lower temps but im convinced this cpu is either bad or something in my pc cant handle it. Is there hope for me, should I just give up on pbo, did I damage this cpu, did I luck out on the silicon lottery?

So my CPU just died out of no where. I just updated windows and turned the PC off and now it doesnt work. The dram and cpu motherboard error lights are on and it can't display. I gave it to a PC workshop to diagnose and fix it after 3 days of testing he told me the cpu is dead and needs changing. It only been like 18months. It costed me a lot I bought it from a local shop (Bahrain) and the warranty is finished only 1 year.

Its really frustrating. I'm kinda broke but I really want my PC back. I only use it for gaming and watching movies/videos.

I didn't know about the r7 9800x3d dying issues I just wanted to buy the best parts at that time.

What cpu should I buy? I don't want to buy the same one and end up dead after a year.

Motherboard: ASRock b650m

GPU: rtx 5070ti zotac

Rams: 32gb Rams xpg

Psu: Nzxt c1000

I welcome any suggestions or solutions fory problem ty.

Built this PC on Sept 9, 2026. It has crashed well over 100 times since.
I'm writing the whole thing up because I simply want to explan my journey, and it's been one hell of a ride. Any help or similar experiences are welcome.

RMA is slow and painful where I live, so it's my last resort and I'm not sure I really want to go through it.
My real fear is spending weeks proving the card is faulty, waiting, and then getting another one that does exactly the same thing.

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Hardware
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- Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Sapphire PURE RX 9070 XT 16 GB, Hynix GDDR6. VBIOS 113-3E490TX-UP4 (023.008.000.068); Sapphire has no newer VBIOS for it
- Sapphire PURE B850M WIFI, BIOS R17 (AGESA 1.3.0.1b, latest). Also ran the BIOS it shipped with. Tried going back to R13, blocked with "Check RomLayout Fail"
- Kingston FURY Beast 2×16 GB KF568C34 (EXPO profiles are 6800 CL34 and 6400 CL32)
- Kingston NV3 1 TB
- PSU MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 80 PLUS gold certified (850 W, ATX 3.0, single rail). GPU on two separate PCIe cables, no pigtails, no extensions
- Gigabyte AORUS FV43U 4K144 HDR over HDMI 2.1 (also tested on DP 1.4)
- Antec CX700 ARGB
- Windows 11 Pro 26H2, currently Adrenalin 26.3.1 (tested everything from 25.x to 26.9.2)

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What the crashes look like
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Mostly an instant hard reset mid-game. No BSOD, no dump, just Kernel-Power 41 with bugcheck 0. Over 100 of those in 30 days.
Usually it's a full freeze with a white screen and a sometimes a continuous beep by the monitor's speakers, then a reset.

Some of the ugly ones: secondary PC crashes - 8 to 10 seconds after Windows started AFTER the crash, three times in a row, right when the GPU driver initializes. 
nce everything lost power except the RAM RGB. Battlefield 6 threw DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG a few times and Windows twice disabled the GPU as a fail-safe.

The live kernel dumps (about two dozen, went through them in WinDbg) are 0x141 VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT and 0x117 TDR in amdkmdag.sys,
on every driver from Sept 9 to Oct 1. Also a couple of 0x1A8
"monitor connected but failed mode set" and 0x1B8, AMD crash defender (amdfendr) events,
and one USBXHCI 0x144 dequeue pointer mismatch. Zero WHEA errors anywhere.
The recent instant resets leave no dump at all.

**The reproducible trigger** is Battlefield 6, right after dying, when the map screen loads. 
Huge frame-time and GPU clock spike, brief freeze, and after 2 or 3 deaths the PC resets.
It also crashed in Onimusha at low resolution 1080p with 260-300 fps uncapped,
card sitting at 3150 to 3220+ MHz at about 280 W.

**At stock the card boosts to 3150 to 3220 MHz** in light loads.
Sapphire's spec says "up to 3010 MHz", AMD reference is 2970. Power sits around 280 W against a 317 W limit, hotspot is fine,
VRAM runs 92 to 94 °C (Sapphire's relaxed fan curve, other brands are ~82-84).
So it isn't power or temperature holding the clock back, it just runs well above what the box says.

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Everything I tried (one change at a time, long gaming sessions each, this took a month)
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Drivers first.
DDU in Safe Mode and clean installs of 25.x, 26.3.1, 26.7.1, 26.8.1, 26.9.1, 26.9.2, both Full and Minimal.
AMD Cleanup Utility just to make sure it's clear. Chipset 8.08.12.551. Realtek audio and 2.5GbE from Sapphire's page.
Windows Update driver delivery is blocked after it silently swapped my GPU driver for an old package once. 26.3.1 lasted longer than the rest (4 BF6 matches vs. crashing within 2-3 deaths on 26.9.2) but still crashed eventually.
There are many people online recommending disabling AMD HD Audio / Streaming Audio: tried it, it crashed almost instantly, so not that.

Removed every monitoring and RGB tool and their kernel drivers too:
HWiNFO, HWMonitor, Afterburner/RTSS, FanControl, ZenTimings, OpenRGB, TriXX (WinRing0), SignalRGB, Twinkle Tray, PawnIO, inpoutx64, CtiIo64.
That gave me a crash-free evening (1 hour) and I thought it was solved. It wasn't.

BIOS: shipped BIOS and R17. CMOS reset to full defaults
(JEDEC 4800, EXPO off, iGPU on, PCIe Auto, CPU completely stock) and still crashed, so it isn't my tuning.
RAM configs tried: EXPO 2 (6400 CL32, the kit's lower profile),
the same EXPO 2 timings run at 6000 (the 7800X3D's sweet spot, 1:1 UCLK),
also plain JEDEC 4800 with EXPO off.
Crashed on all of them.
SoC Auto, 1.20 V and 1.25 V.
CPU: PBO and Curve Optimizer (−20 all-core) on, and fully off. C-states on and off. PCIe Gen5 and Gen4, crashed on both.
iGPU on and off (with it on plus a driver, every fullscreen mode switch black-screened for about a minute, so it stays off).
Above 4G and ReBAR on and off. Memory Context Restore and Power Down on and off.
Nothing.

Memory: MemTest86 all night, 0 errors. TM5 anta777 91 min, 0 errors. memtest_vulkan on the VRAM passed too.

Stress tests: OCCT Power 1 hr AVX2 passed. Prime95 passed.
Meanwhile games crashed every 5-20 minutes.
Short synthetic tests were useless here since they didn't raise the GPU clocks.

Windows settings: sleep, hibernation and USB selective suspend off (sleep had quietly re-enabled itself once via the High performance plan).
PCIe link power management off.
HAGS on and off. TdrDelay/TdrDdiDelay 10.
VBS on and off. Game DVR off, Fast Startup off,
run-as-admin and DPI override on the game exe, Defender exclusions.
Tried NVIDIA's MPO registry fix (the one that also gets recommended for AMD):
on this Windows build the old key did nothing, and the newer DisableOverlays key put dwm.exe in a crash loop, so it's reverted and MPO is at default.
Uninstalled all the latest Windows updates (KB5124010 and the rest), still crashed.
The September update KB5124008, the one reported to cause Radeon freezes,
has been on this PC since day one and can't be removed. Later moved to 26H2, no change.

Overlays: played with the Adrenalin metrics overlay on and off,
and with every other overlay off too (Xbox Game Bar, Steam, Discord).
Crashed either way.
Adrenalin: Stock - crashed. Performance and standard - crashed.
Anti-Lag on and off, Instant Replay off, HDR on and off, FreeSync "AMD Optimized" vs "On" (seemed to help for one match, then didn't),
10-bit pixel format off, Dynamic Refresh off, switched the HDMI with DP.
Nothing.

Display timing: the FV43U's 4K144 mode has a tiny vertical blank (24 lines) that kept VRAM pinned at 2518 MHz at idle desktop.
Raised it to 55 lines with CRU. Idle VRAM dropped to about 700-909 MHz on desktop idle.
Crashes still happen.

Hardware: opened the case, disconnected every cable and fan, checked every connector, reseated the GPU, RAM and every power cable,
confirmed the GPU is fed by two separate PCIe cables straight from the PSU (no daisy-chain, no extensions), then ran with only the essentials (no case fans, no RGB).
Still crashed.

GPU tuning: undervolt alone (−65 to −95 mV) made it worse. Power +10% turned freezes into instant resets.
VRAM stock vs OC made no difference.

Battlefield 6 specifically: User.cfg thread limits, shader cache clears,
Javelin anti-cheat reinstall, profile file fixes.
Refunded it on Steam and bought it again, more than once (Thought initially it's just Battlefield's messing up my system - it's been hell...).

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What finally worked
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Adrenalin → Performance → Tuning → Max Frequency Offset −300 MHz - and it's over. 
Everything else stock.
The card now runs around 3000-3100+- MHz. Zero crashes since,
in Battlefield 6 and Onimusha, across many long sessions.
−400 (about 2950 MHz) also held; I'm sitting at −300 because it's closer to spec.
The offset barely lowers voltage on RDNA4 (still ~1.1 V), so this is about clock, not volts.
Weird thing about Battlefield: when crashes happen the reported clock speed is averaged on 3,050MHz so I'm not sure why it causes crashes without the -300MHz solution. (I do know for a fact it happens a few times after you die and see the map).

One observation I did notice and is worth mentioning:
I also tried -200 MHz.
At about -65mv and -200mhz max clock changes it still crashed, but - 
I noticed the hard crashed turned into regular AMD driver timeout errors without restarts.

Saw tons of other 9070 XT owners needed the same thing:
Reaper −400, Pulse −450, Nitro −230, −500 on the AMD forum, including someone with the exact same Sapphire PURE and the same 0x141 → amdkmdag chain.
So it looks like boost behavior on some chips rather than one bad card,
but honestly I can't be sure, and "it works if you underclock your brand-new GPU" is not where I wanted to land.

I have no idea how I'm gonna sell my PC one day once I'll need to upgrade and tell the buyer:
"Hey man, listen, it's an excellent gaming PC, but -
you have to install Adrenalin and make sure the clock down the maximum for about 300mhz that's just the way that it is."

If you've been through this with a 9070 XT, found a real root cause, or dealt with RMA for it, I'd be glad to hear from you.
I wish I saw all the other threads about the 9070 XT before I purchased it,
I  saw tons of Youtube video reviews and on text and it was highly recommended by everyone.

I still think that IT IS a great card,
but the amount of complaints I see today about this specific issue is something I cannot ignore and makes me regret my decision.
(And yeah, I know the small minority makes the loudest noise, yet still...)

I have had this issue for a while now where whenever I am on a working drivers version windows update would happen and install some weird version where fsr4 doesn't even work.

The only fix is to ddu the driver and reinstall again and pause windows update. But when the update gets unpaused it will again install this incorrect drivers.

Anyone knows why this happens?

TYIA

I recently built a PC that intermittently shuts off completely with no BSOD, as if the power was pulled.

Specs:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
MSI PRO B650M-A WiFi
XFX Swift RX 9070 XT
MSI MAG A850GL 850W PSU
32GB DDR5-6000
Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE
2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe
Lian Li DAN A3
Windows 11

Symptoms
Shutdowns have occurred during:
Windows installation or login
BF6 and Wardogs
Several hours of gaming
Combined CPU/GPU stress tests
Cold boot
After some shutdowns, the motherboard shows a red CPU EZ Debug LED; other times it boots normally. The issue is highly inconsistent.

Troubleshooting
I have:
Reset BIOS defaults and cleared CMOS
Disabled EXPO, PBO, and overclocking
Reseated the GPU and checked all power connections
Used two separate PCIe cables for the GPU
Tried another wall outlet
Checked for cable tension and GPU sag
Tested with the side panel removed

Stress tests
OCCT CPU and GPU tests have passed, but a combined Power test has caused a shutdown. I later completed a 30-minute Power test successfully, yet gaming can still trigger the issue. The CPU reached about 89°C during testing.

Drivers and Event Viewer
The system seemed stable in Safe Mode and after removing AMD graphics drivers with AMD Cleanup Utility. Reinstalling the driver caused another shutdown, although the issue later returned after another reinstall.
Event Viewer only shows Kernel-Power Event 41:
BugcheckCode: 0
PowerButtonTimestamp: 0
LongPowerButtonPressDetected: false
WHEABootErrorCount: 0
There are no useful WHEA errors beforehand, suggesting the system is losing power rather than crashing normally.

What I’m wondering
The leading possibilities seem to be:
PSU protection or transient-load issues
Motherboard or CPU power delivery
GPU or driver power-state problems
CPU/socket/cooler mounting
RAM

I’ve bought a replacement PSU to help rule that out. Is there a better way to test rapid transient loads than OCCT Power, and what would you investigate next?

Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with random black screens and complete system freezes while gaming.
I had a very similar problem almost a year ago, but it stopped happening and I haven’t had any issues for a long time. However, after updating to Adrenalin 26.8.1, I experienced another black screen while playing a game.
The screen suddenly went completely black and the PC completely froze. I couldn’t do anything and had to hold the power button to shut the PC down and restart it.
The strange thing is that this has only ever happened while gaming. I can use Windows, browse the internet, watch videos, etc. without any problems.
My PC specs:
● GPU: AMD RX 9060 XT 16GB
● CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X
● Motherboard: ASUS PRIME A620M-K
● RAM: 32GB DDR5 (2×16GB) 6000MHz
● PSU: XPG Core Reactor II 850W
● Monitors: 2 monitors
Some additional information:
● HAGS is disabled
● Windows driver automatic updates are disabled
● No CPU or RAM overclocking
● No GPU overclocking
● No GPU undervolting
● Everything is running at stock settings
● The black screen/freezes only happen while gaming
I’m not sure what is causing it. The PSU should be more than sufficient, and the system is otherwise stable.
Could this be a GPU driver issue with Adrenalin 26.8.1, or should I be looking at something else such as RAM/EXPO, BIOS, GPU stability, or something related to having two monitors?
Has anyone else experienced similar black screens/freezes with the RX 9060 XT and Adrenalin 26.8.1?
Any suggestions for troubleshooting would be appreciated.

I recently upgraded to an RX 9070 XT PULSE. I tried undervolting it, but something went wrong. After restarting, Windows booted normally, but nothing would open on the desktop.

After a few restarts, everything started working again.

Today, when I got home from work, the same thing happened again. I had recently updated the GPU driver, so I used DDU and installed one version older, and everything went back to working normally.

I played on the PC for a while, and then the power went out in my building. After turning the PC back on, Windows booted normally again, but once more, nothing would open on the desktop.

I tried getting into Safe Mode by turning the PC off and on several times until Windows started loading. I eventually got to the Automatic Repair screen, followed by Diagnosing your PC, and after that the computer booted normally and everything started working again.

Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Could this be a driver issue, a Windows issue, or possibly something related to the GPU itself?

5950X hits 91°C at only ~64W light load and throttles to 1/4 performance. New cooler, case, paste and BIOS didn't help

Hey all, I'm stuck on a thermal issue and would appreciate a second opinion.

Specs:

- Ryzen 9 5950X, stock (PBO/Curve Optimizer untouched)

- Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE rev 1.3, BIOS FHd (AGESA 1.2.0.12, latest)

- DeepCool AG620 Digital (dual tower, 2x 120mm)

- 32GB DDR4-3200 (2x16GB, XMP on)

- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

- New case

The problem: the CPU sits at its 90°C limit even under light load, and performance tanks because of it.

HWiNFO log at light load (game running plus a few light apps, ~6.5% total CPU usage):

- Tctl/Tdie: 91.2-91.5°C, constant

- CPU PPT: ~64W (PPT limit 45%, TDC 36%, EDC 24%)

- Thermal Limit: 100%

- Frequency Limit - Global: 2.9-3.6 GHz, highest core clock seen 3.69 GHz

- HTC / PROCHOT CPU / PROCHOT EXT: all No

- CCD1 ~90°C, CCD2 ~86°C, even though CCD2 was only pulling ~5W (one of its cores was ~98% in C6 and still reading 83°C)

- IOD hotspot ~84°C

- VRM MOS 52°C

- CPU fan ~1750 RPM (max is 1850)

- System sensor ~33°C

CPU-Z bench: 162 single-thread / 2087 multi-thread. A stock 5950X should be around 690 / 13,300, so it's running at roughly a quarter of its expected single-thread performance. In FFXIV I get ~35 FPS with the GPU at ~20% usage, so the game is clearly CPU-bound because of this.

What I've already tried:

- Replaced the cooler with the AG620

- Repasted

- Moved everything to a new case

- Updated the BIOS to the latest version

None of it changed the temps.

I know AMD says up to 90°C is typical for Zen 3 under full load. But this is at ~64W, less than half of the 142W PPT, and the chip isn't boosting. It's throttling down to ~3.5 GHz and scoring a quarter of what it should.

My read of the data: since even the nearly idle CCD and the IOD are above 80°C, the whole IHS seems to be hot, so the heat isn't making it from the IHS into the cooler. My plan is to check the mounting pressure and the paste imprint, and if that looks fine, test the CPU in another board.

Questions:

1. Does this point to mounting/contact, or could it be the CPU itself (IHS or sensor)?

2. Anything specific I should check with the AG620 on AM4?

3. Has anyone seen a 5950X behave like this, and what fixed it?

Thanks!

RX 6800 XT — persistent ghosting in multiple games and monitors
I’m trying to solve a persistent in-game ghosting/trailing issue that has been happening for months.
PC:
RX 6800 XT XFX MERC319
Ryzen 7 5800X
MSI B550 Gaming Plus
32 GB RAM
Windows 10 22H2
AMD Adrenalin 26.9.2
The issue looks like a duplicate/trailing image behind HUD elements, crosshairs, binoculars, etc., especially during camera movement.
The important part: it happens across many different games and engines, including:
Battlefield 6 (Frostbite)
Cyberpunk 2077 (REDengine)
STALKER 2 (UE5)
Ace Combat 8 (UE5)
WARDOGS
Manor Lords
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 (CryEngine)
Dirt Rally 2.0
It happens with and without Frame Generation, and some of these games don’t use FG at all.
I’ve also tested two different monitors independently, with only one connected at a time:
1440p Koorui
1080p monitor
Both show the same type of ghosting in games.
TestUFO looks clean.
I’ve already tried:
DDU + clean AMD driver installation
FreeSync OFF
AFMF OFF
Enhanced Sync/sync settings
Anti-Lag OFF
Radeon Boost OFF
RSR OFF
RIS OFF
GPU scaling ON/OFF
different refresh rates, including 120 Hz
different DP output
MPO-related workaround
single-monitor testing
Nothing consistently fixes it.
The weirdest clue is WARDOGS: enabling AMD’s Optimized V-Sync makes the ghosting disappear, although it causes another visual problem with vegetation.
The ghosting first appeared around February 2026, before I bought the 1440p monitor, so the 1440p screen cannot be the original cause.
At this point I’m wondering if this could be related to the AMD driver / Windows / DXGI presentation / synchronization path, rather than the games themselves.
Has anyone experienced something similar with an RX 6800 XT or another Radeon GPU and actually found the cause?
I’m especially interested in a real fix, not just generic DDU/FreeSync/monitor-overdrive suggestions, as I’ve already gone through those.

Basically, I have the potential to pick up this really nice Gigabyte 9070 xt for 700$ and now that I'm looking around a bit I see people talking about increased power consumption compared to the non-xt models, power cables being burnt up, etc. Makes me do a double take about if I want this card, but every where I look for a regular 9070 it goes for around the same price if not more. Should I just avoid this 9070xt and hope I can find a deal on a 9070? I'm only really planning on doing 1080p gaming in the near future.

Hi all

I'm wanting to upgrade my PC from:

Ryzen 7 3700X

NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super

650 watt PSU

Done a bit of research and I've settled on:

RYZEN 7 5700X3D

Radeon RX 9070 XT

850 watt PSU

I got enough ram still at 32GB

My question is how loud is the graphics card when under load?

Also i have a alienware 3821DW monitor which has G-sync module but my research has told me it can use adaptive freesync so I can still have the variable refresh rate

Can anyone confirm that also?

First new game I want to enjoy is WOW forever and then Kingdom come deliverance 2 and other titles in future

Hello everyone, inspired by Nvidia Watch (https://indep-arg.github.io/NvidiaWatch/) I made a version for AMD GPUs, the actual visual portion etc was coded with AI, so it doesn't look nearly as good, but all data has been checked. https://adstapr.github.io/AMDTracker/ is the site for it. If you do see any issues feel free to mention me here or dm me on reddit. I will be updating this going forward as well.

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TLDR: If you have even low pcie lane degradation (or signal instability) your AMD gpu is very sensitive to that. Lower your pcie speed from bios and see if it solves your problem with driver timeouts and pc freeze.

So i waited some days before posting this just to make sure it wasn't luck again.

After some update in July i started having multiple driver timeouts and pc freezing at random times even when browsing. I have tried almost every possible fix posted online and nothing helped.

Troubleshooting: About 1 month later my pc would start stuttering everywhere, audio crackling and had long boot times. I thought i was the RAM because after tweaking some voltage settings in bios the system seemed to stabilize but then it would come back randomly. I removed the dgpu, used the igpu and everything ran perfect.

It had something to do with dgpu or how it connects to the rest of the sytem but stress tests were flawless no problem there. Then i went into a rabbit hole and discovered that AMD handles signal integrity at the PCIe level differently than Nvidia (that's probably why Nvidia cards run flawlessly on the same systems) and Windows exacerbates this by how it handles driver timeouts and data packet loss (that's probably why Linux runs flawlessly on the same hardware).

So maybe something in the drivers and/or windows update changed how tight the margin is for buses to operate and how they handle tdr and data loss. Most probably there is pcie lane low degradation that AMD gpus are very sensitive to apparently. When on Auto, AMD forces the highest pcie speed even if it's unstable and Nvidia lowers the speed in case of instability. Also, that's probably why some people have success removing PCIe Riser Cables (they can cause signal instability) or reseating the gpu.

This post analyzes the problem better: https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1kvmdrg/why_amd_is_perceived_to_have_more_crashes_and/