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That rig should be able to handle Alyx without any trouble I could run it fine on an 8700K and RTX 2070 with 16 GB RAM. Why does this keep happening when I play half life alyx? Try installing a hardware monitor application.

Random BSODs with no error codes may point to a hardware problem, overheating, some kind of intemittant connection problem, power problem.

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