I doubt there's any single root cause here. "I get crashes when running big compiles" is a classic symptom of hardware that is almost, but not quite, stable. Th

I doubt there's any single root cause here. "I get crashes when running big compiles" is a classic symptom of hardware that is almost, but not quite, stable. This can be due to power delivery problems, thermals, marginal RAM, overclocks, faulty CPU (yeah, it happens sometimes) and so on.