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All of my games keep crashing anywhere from 5 minutes of gameplay on most to about an hour on some others. I've tried updating my gpu drivers and have even done a clean install of windows.
Specs are:
Intel i5 3570k
Asus P8-V77 lk
EVGA gtx 660 2gb
750 watt Rosewill psu
8gb of ram
1tb hard drive
 
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Hate to be bearer of bad news, but your video card may need to be replaced-unless someone else would like add to the discussion.

BUT before we doing anything drastic, do you have another video card to test and eliminate the possibility that there may be a problem with the PCI slot? Maybe borrow one from a friend? Hang in there.
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The idea is to pinpoint the exact cause of these crashes, which is why I suggested something gpu-taxing like Furmark. When you said your games were all crashing at some point. This is a probability your GPU is overheating to varying degrees based on how demanding the game is, which explains why the point at which your games crash varies. If so, adjust the fan profile and make sure you do a good cleaning for dust, upgrade to the latest drivers, before we conclude the gpu is faulty and needs replacement.

Furmark has built-in temperature readout for your graphics card. Keep an eye on it. Your card shouldn't go past 80 C on load.
 
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My gpu temp stayed bellow 70 C. But after 18 minutes of the test it crashed and I got a message that said "The NVIDIA OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver due to exceeding the Windows Time-Out limit and is unable to continue. The applictaion must close.

Error code: 7
Would you like to visit
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faquid=3007 for help?


http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3007 <-- Link for you.
 
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There is assumption that as load increase voltage + heat should increase proportionally, maybe a little more. Therefore anyone would think as long as it doesn't reach 80 C it's not under load. Furmark is pretty harsh on the gpu. Heaven Benchmark may suit out purposes better. Set Heaven Benchmark to lower all eye candy and resolution. See how long it runs before the system becomes unstable or when you get error code: 7. If it goes through fine without crashes. Good news, there's a chance the gpu is okay.

Edit: The point of this test: We want to determine at absolute minimum gaming conditions what will happen. Gradually increase quality settings until you're convinced the card is okay. The point isn't to test stable overclock but whether your defaults are stable. In theory they should, but if there is anything wrong with components it should be obvious from this test.
 
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Yes, there are more "solutions" to your problem:
1- don't OC to high or apply some more voltage with proper cooling.
2- modify the TdrDelay from 2 sec. to 4-6 seconds (or whatever you like) within the registry; (easy but not really a solution IMO)
3- disable PowerMizer, link :https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/413110/geforce-drivers/the-nvlddmkm-error-what-is-it-an-fyi-for-those-seeing-this-issue/
 
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I set every setting to the lowest available and I got error 7 immediately after loading.
 
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Hate to be bearer of bad news, but your video card may need to be replaced-unless someone else would like add to the discussion.

BUT before we doing anything drastic, do you have another video card to test and eliminate the possibility that there may be a problem with the PCI slot? Maybe borrow one from a friend? Hang in there.
 
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