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About two weeks ago my pc started crashing during games. It freezes and I am forced to turn it off manually. Then upon boot, my computer will turn on and off repeatedly only reving fans no splash screen. Usually it does boot, however as of late it keeps doing that until I reset the CMOS. So then it will boot sometimes it will run fine, other times as soon as I get to the desktop it'll blue screen. I looked up some of the error codes and they were due to corrupt drivers or hardware issues. So, somewhat drastically, I wiped my ssd and reinstalled win8. No dice the same problem occured during gaming or stress tests (kombustor). Checked my temps during a stress test, they were fine. Occasionally when I boot I'll get a bios error message about RAM(This has only appeared a couple times and only after the crashes started happening.) I ran memtest for quite a while and no errors were found on either stick. My PSU had problems previously so I figured perhaps the crashes occurred due to heavy load, I RMA'd it and the crashes continued. So here I am I think I've ruled out about everything but the mobo and my gpu. I should also mention that the crashes only started to occur after I moved my rig downstairs to use, something could have and probably did break at this point (if somethings broken) Thoughts?

 

 

I5 4670k stock clocks

msi 780 ti gaming edition also stock clocked

8gb kingston hyperx black

EVGA supernova nex750b 750watt 80+ bronze

asrock z87 extreme 4

 

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I'd try underclocking or raising the voltage to see if that does anything at all. 

 

Broken stuff...  Can't help you there.  Are Temps okay?

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I'd try underclocking or raising the voltage to see if that does anything at all. 

 

Broken stuff...  Can't help you there.  Are Temps okay?

Temps are good gpu in the low 70s cpu in the 60s under load. Thanks for your help though

 

As far as something being physically broken- nothing looks broken- no bent pins and I can't find anything that might be causing a short.

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Temps are good gpu in the low 70s cpu in the 60s under load. Thanks for your help though

 

As far as something being physically broken- nothing looks broken- no bent pins and I can't find anything that might be causing a short.

Well the reason for underclocking is not the temps, but stability for the system.

Higher voltage = more stability

lower clock does the same.  Just try it and see if it helps.  if not, reset like you have already.

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Well the reason for underclocking is not the temps, but stability for the system.

Higher voltage = more stability

lower clock does the same.  Just try it and see if it helps.  if not, reset like you have already.

Ok I see, Well I increased the voltage by about 10% and undeclocked my gpu by 100mhz and got about 6 minutes in kombuster before a crash. 

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