System keeps crashing

SilverCaboose · Aug 6, 2013

I came home back from a vacation and my system basically destroyed itself when I tried playing Borderlands 2. The whole thing crashed and couldn't do a thing. I ended up having to reinstall Windows 8 and that took quite a while because of corrupted updates. Everything is back up and runs somewhat okay until I play games. Unless I'm downclocking my GPU by 200-300MHz my games will crash as soon as they load. Any takers? Is my card nearing its grave? Any help is appreciated!

Here are my specs:
Intel 3770k CPU
ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Mobo
32GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 RAM
GTX 670 4GB SC GPU
Rosewill Lightning series 800W PSU
Kingston Hyper X 120GB SSD (OS)
Western Digital 1TB HDD (Games)
Corsair H100i liquid cooling system
Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition case
Windows 8 Pro 64bit OS

Tradesman1 · Aug 6, 2013

Before writing off the GPU, do you have or can you borrow a different PSU to try?

SilverCaboose · Aug 7, 2013

Tradesman1 :

I can't borrow or pull one that is hefty enough to support the card and don't have the money to pick a new one up. I was getting some weird warnings from AI Suite II saying that my voltages were off but I've only got them twice and they go away as soon as they show up. On top of that I heard that software isn't that great or accurate to begin with.

Tradesman1 · Aug 7, 2013

Agreed on the software, but intermittent problems like this tend to indicate a dying PSU

SilverCaboose · Aug 10, 2013

I upgraded the firmware on the card to the latest patch by EVGA and it seems to have fixed it, if anything else changes I'll post back here. Thanks for your input!

SilverCaboose · Aug 10, 2013

Was playing Borderlands 2 again today and when I Phaselocked the same thing happened again. I also noticed the system chugging a few times while in-game. I'm thinking it may temperature related? My room is at 85F and while playing the card goes up to about 60C and my processor goes to about 45C. I adjusted my fan speed in Precision X in Fan Curve so when it gets to about 60C the fan will max out and pull the temperature back down. While playing the game the fan wasn't increasing and then the system froze. I restarted and when Windows booted the fan maxed itself out to drag the temperature back down.

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