GTX 980 system hang

[Simon 23259]

Morning guys,

I recently build myself a new system and in all its glory it also likes to hang and not in a good way. 

Whenever I play Crysis 2, Far Cry 3 or Metro Last Light, the whole system hangs after around 3 - 10 mins of gameplay, I have to hold down the power button. It has also suffered from a system hang in a couple of other games after a few hours but there are games that aren't GPU intensive.

These 3 games are the only ones so far that push the GPU as I get no higher than 50fps in all 3. 

Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this? 

I do have the latest GPU drivers installed. 

 

I am about to run memtest for 4 hours. 

System spec for anybody that needs it:

Core i7 5820k
MSI X99 M-Power board
16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengance @2400mhz
980GTX MSI Twin Frozr 
Samsung 840 SSD @ 240GB
WD 1TB HDD
Corsair RM850 PSU 
Corsair Graphite 760T 

All of these parts are brand new apart from the SSD and HDD because they came from my old system.

[Geekazoid]

When did this start exactly, did it happen initially when you had just built the system?

@Simon 23259

[Simon 23259]

Yes, about a day after I built it, I loaded Metro Last Light and 5 mins in it froze. I've had the system 2 weeks now but I've been so busy at work I haven't had time to diagnose it. 

When did this start exactly, did it happen initially when you had just built the system?

@Simon 23259

[Geekazoid]

Yes, about a day after I built it, I loaded Metro Last Light and 5 mins in it froze. I've had the system 2 weeks now but I've been so busy at work I haven't had time to diagnose it.

Maybe you should make sure every component is seated correctly, like the CPU, RAM and GPU.

[Charezon]

Have you monitored your CPU temperatures at all?  Using a program life RealTemp or CoreTemp

[Simon 23259]

I have checked the seating, I had an issue with late CPU initialisation, that turns out to be one stick of DDR4 not seated correctly. Everything is now in place.

 

Temp wise, I have a temp display on the mobo and its never gone higher than 55c and the cpu is not overclocked. 

[Simon 23259]

Have you monitored your CPU temperatures at all?  Using a program life RealTemp or CoreTemp

 

Just ran FC3 using realtemp and a couple of other programs:

 

At the time of the crash

 

CPU @ 44C 

GPU @ 67C

 

GPU utilisation 99%

 

These 3 games are the only ones so far being rendered using Nvidia's own DSR, could that affect anything? 

[asim1999]

Just ran FC3 using realtemp and a couple of other programs:

 

At the time of the crash

 

CPU @ 44C 

GPU @ 67C

 

GPU utilisation 99%

 

These 3 games are the only ones so far being rendered using Nvidia's own DSR, could that affect anything? 

Weird

Are both CPU and GPU overclocked?

[Simon 23259]

Nope, not a single overclock, I think I've found the fix, someone suggested the GPU was faulty, I used the GPU from my old system and so far, no crashes.