Kraken G10 with H55 on R9 290 is giving Black Screens

[alme55]

So i installed the kraken g10 with an h55 to my reference r9 290, the gpu idles at around 34-40 degrees and vrm around 37-60 degrees, i don't have any extra heat sinks installed, they are on the way  from china atm. The problem i am having is when i play any games even though my gpu temp stays below 60 degrees and the vrm temps stay below 85 degrees the card still black screens on me, i can't even get through a single Heaven benchmark without it happening.

i should mention it is graphically intensive games that cause it, crysis 2, heaven Bench..., i played watch dogs for 3 hours and it never crashed

 

I tried re-installing the drivers multiple times but i don't know why that would stop working right after installing a new cooler.  I  also reinstalled the h55 to make sure it was properly installed. the thermal paste i used for the gpu was the included one i got with the N520.
The only thing i can think of is the Vram in getting too hot or maybe because i don't have a fan plugged into the gpu whenever it tries to ramp the fan speed up it crashes itself because it does not detect one.
This problem just started since i installed the Kracken G10 + h55, anyone have any issues like this or might know a solution?  Also the PSU in my system is about a month old do you guys think it could be that as well?

 

Also when i have the Kraken G10 installed am i supposed to have a fan plugged into the Gpu fan slot?

i5 4670k @ 4.4, AsRock z87e-itx, 8gb Kingston HyperX Blue, Reference R9 290 + Kraken G10 + Corsair H55, Cooler Master N520, 120gb Kingston ssd now v300, 2tb WB Green, 3tb Seagate Barracuda, Rosewill Capstone 750w Gold Psu, Fractal Design: Define R4 Case, logisys RGB led light strip

[Jodomcfrodo]

Nothing cooling the memory is probably the issue. I would never do that. But also your VRM temps seem low. Mine get to 50c while watercooled if I run 1212 mv

[alme55]

Just got done testing a friends psu and it still crashed so i guess that my psu isn't the issue, hopefully the aluminum heat sinks i bought will cool them enough when they get here.

[PatHeist]

It's probably heat issues on other things than the GPU like you seem to have figured out. And no, there's no reason for why you'd have to have the fan plugged into the video card itself, but it can help set fan curves through something like MSI Afterburner. But again, there's nothing stopping you from using another program or device to control that based on GPU temps.

[alme55]

so i got the heat sinks and put them on the vram and the vrm, still getting blacksreens in games, only some games though, i played watch dogs for 3 hours with no problems, but when i try lichdom or crysis 2 it happens.  With the heat sinks my vrm temps are below 70 while gaming. i even did a fresh install of windows and it still persists

[alme55]

i put the stock heatsink back on and that fixed the issued so since the gpu and vrm temps were low when it was happening i am assuming the memory was just getting too hot even with heatsinks installed on them. maybe my cards memory just runs a lot hotter than the average one. In any case hopefully newegg will take back the kraken g10 and the Gelid kit i bought from them. This was a lesson well learned for me, next time i will just buy a card with a custom cooler on it as the only reason i tried the kraken g10 was to reduce the noise the 290's reference cooler made, but i guess i cannot complain having only purchasing it for $160