I don't think it's a thermal issue just because it will crash whenever I start the furmark(fuzzy donut thing) stress test regardless of the temperature. But it's also a EVGA card, so I don't know if its affected by their vrm thing, and there's no way for me to get a thermal reading off of those components. Also regarding the GPU, my bios is the newest version out of the box so that might not be the issue.