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Recently i started playing Far Cry 3. After about 90 minutes of playing it my computer started randomly restarting. After it kept doing that during play i was wandering what the issue was. I tried lowering the Graphics and all my settings, none of which worked. I then took advice i found from another thread stating that far cry 3 doesn't work well with overclocked cards and lowered the clock on my card. Behold, the restarts stopped and i was able to play far cry 3 for about 4 hours straight with no issues, resulting in me beating the game.
Lately while I've been playing wow, I've been getting the same restarts though, So now im wondering if there have been some permanent to one of those components.

Here are my Specs
Motherboard: ASUS LGA 1155 - Z68
Cpu: Intel I7 -2600k
Gpu: Evga GeForce Gtx 570 Superclocked 1280 Mb GDDR5
Psu: Corsair HX Professional Series 750-Watt 80 Plus Certified Power Supply Compatible with Core i7 and Core i5 - CMPSU-750HX
Memory: 8GB G. Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 1600 MHz Ripjaw Series for Intel LGA1156/AM3
 
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Late h ere on the U.S. West Coast, so I may have missed something in your post and the replies. Just tried re-reading everything so as to "get a feeling" for what you have done and others have suggested.
I hate to say this but it could be RAM,MoBo, or your PSU. (In other words, the rest of your components). It appears you have tried everything else so my suggestion is borrow another PSU (600-650 watts would work for testing) and try it for awhile and see what happens.
If that doesn't solve the problem, then run MemTest on the RAM - though I have never had it show any problems and have had a bad stick of RAM anyway. If MemTest is negative (no errors) then try running the system with one stick of ram for a few days and see if the...
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Your PSU is fine as far as I know. I'd check your card and upgrade if you can, that might be an issue with available vRAM. So the card is what I would take out and replace with a GTX 760 or HD 7970!
 
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Yeah at first i was thinking it might be card because lowering the clock seemed to solve the restarting issue with far cry 3. The game never had any issues frame wise. For the most part i could run at some decent settings and still get 60 fps. Just the whole system restart issue.
 
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Did you monitor your temps?

Or it could simply be a blue screen because of a driver issue. Just go to Advanced System Settings, and in Startup and Recovery, uncheck Automatically Restart for System Failures. Then next time it happens, instead of rebooting automatically you'll probably get a BSOD and will be able to write down the specific error message or if it's linked to a driver in particular (most likely GPU).

But before trying any of that, I take for granted you already flashed your BIOS to latest version, checked for a firmware update for the GPU, updated all your drivers (especially nvidia drivers) to latest version. You could also undo any overclock you did on the CPU or on the memory. Resetting BIOS to default would be a good idea too.
 
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Yeah ive monitored my temps fairly often. Nothing outrageous. Far cry 3 was the deal breaker on the temp and usage of the card. Peaking at 81 degrees C and 99-100 usage. During other games its usually 70 degrees C (~75 degrees C with my second monitor)

Also i might add that ive had all my hardware for over a year and never had an compatibility issues. Played wow for a very long time and never had an issue with this before. Only started with far cry 3
 
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MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE for a GTX 570, according to Nvidia, is 97C.
At 99-100 the card is going to throttle down or shut down before or as it burns up.
Clean the case, take out the card and blow it out really well with canned air. You may also have to remove the cooler and replace the thermal paste.
Make certain all your case fans are running and any fan filters are clean, as well as the video card fan. Blow out the PSU as best you can.

I've run into a problem where the case fans and video fans didn't spin up soon enough or fast enough to maintain proper temps. Solve it by installing MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X software and setting up a more aggressive fan profile for the video card.
 
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Check their heat sinks; that seems to me to be the only thing, other then fan malfunction and dirt (which I think you probably checked on) that could cause the high temps.
MC_K7's suggestions warrant some consideration too.
 
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I think the OP is saying that the GPU reaches 81°C with a GPU usage of 99% - 100%.

NVIDIA states that the GeForce GTX 570's Maximum GPU Temperature is 97°C although I'm pretty sure that there would be graphics artifacts showing up before that temperature is reached.
 
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Yeah, 81°C is the absolute max ive seen it. It has only reached that temperature during Far Cry 3.

I think it is safe to say that my GPU is pretty much history, now that I've figured out the main issue with it. Now what remains is whether i RMA it, or go ahead an upgrade to better card.
I was looking at the 760 with 4 Gbs of VRAM cause i run 2 monitors which from what I've read up on is quite a bit better. Any recommendations?
 
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Yep I suggested from the start to check for a firmware upgrade for the GPU but it looks like he ignored all my suggestions.

Anyways, the 570 is still a decent card, I would definitely try to fix it, or if it still under warranty you could RMA it if after trying everything you couldn't fix it.
 
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Last night, i was talking to a number of people and i will be in the process of getting my card RMA'd. I would like to thank everyone for their support. In the mean time, i suppose i will have to suffer with my 250's.
 
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*Update*
It seems as though about 24 hours after putting the GTS 250's in my computer, i still seem to be suffering the same fate. I'm not sure if its just coincidence but this is starting to become a real worrying issue...
 
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I did uncheck automatic restart. I still hasn't given me a BSOD so i cant get an error number on anything that way.
As far as the drivers go, that was one of the first things i did was make sure they were up to date.
However i havn't done anything with my bios because im not too certain or knowledgeable about that area of the computer.
 
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Then keep playing games until you get a BSOD again, but automatic restart are usually caused by BSOD.

Flashing a BIOS is easy. Go to the Asus website, download latest BIOS version for your motherboard. It usually comes with a Readme file and instructions.
 
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