UE4 crashes on building lighting

I’m running into an usual issue. Every time I building lighting, UE4 crashes. Not even just the engine, my whole desktop locks up.

Brand new installation of UE4, brand new installation of Windows 8.1 Pro (fully updated though), brand new FPS starter set, crashes on lighting randomly usually around 15%.

I have the build logs from the lighting, but it isn’t very telling. I have several of them with all identical items logged near the end. These are the last things logged before the crash:

One Crash:

[2015.06.26-00.50.16:033][498]MapCheck: New page: Map Check
[2015.06.26-00.50.16:084][498]Cmd: MAP REBUILD ALLVISIBLE
[2015.06.26-00.50.16:084][498]LogEditorServer: Rebuildmap Clear paths rebuilt
[2015.06.26-00.50.16:162][498]LightingResults: New page: Lighting Build - Jun 25, 2015, 2:50:16 PM
[2015.06.26-00.50.20:693][498]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ ImmediateImport mode ENABLED
[2015.06.26-00.50.20:693][498]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ ImmediateProcess mode ENABLED
[2015.06.26-00.50.20:693][498]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ Sorting mode ENABLED
[2015.06.26-00.50.20:693][498]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ Mapping paddings ENABLED
[2015.06.26-00.50.20:693][498]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ Mapping debug paddings DISABLED
[2015.06.26-00.50.21:031][498]LogEditorBuildUtils: Build time 0:00:04

Another Crash:

[2015.06.26-01.33.42:377][913]MapCheck: New page: Map Check
[2015.06.26-01.33.42:511][913]Cmd: MAP REBUILD ALLVISIBLE
[2015.06.26-01.33.42:511][913]LogEditorServer: Rebuildmap Clear paths rebuilt
[2015.06.26-01.33.42:631][913]LightingResults: New page: Lighting Build - Jun 25, 2015, 3:33:42 PM
[2015.06.26-01.33.47:167][913]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ ImmediateImport mode ENABLED
[2015.06.26-01.33.47:167][913]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ ImmediateProcess mode ENABLED
[2015.06.26-01.33.47:167][913]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ Sorting mode ENABLED
[2015.06.26-01.33.47:167][913]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ Mapping paddings ENABLED
[2015.06.26-01.33.47:167][913]LogStaticLightingSystem: Running Lightmass w/ Mapping debug paddings DISABLED
[2015.06.26-01.33.47:467][913]LogEditorBuildUtils: Build time 0:00:04

My desktop has an AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core processor, 32GB of ram, AMD Radeon R9 290X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory.

Naturally I’ve updated all my drivers. I’ve never had any issues rendering in any other software.

I’m at a loss here, can anyone point me in the right direction?

I may have found my own solution. In addition to better cooling, I found the ‘turbo’ function in the BIOS causes problems when rendering or maxing out the CPU. Disabling that fixed my issues.