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Suspecting hardware issue, but need help

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November 14, 2013 4:44:45 PM

Hey guys, first post here.. So I play WoW, and it was fine for about 2 months, but then I started getting these game crashes and blue screens of death, especially in raids almost every 5-10 mins, my sound would usually make a loud buzzing noise through the speakers and then blue.. I spent hours on google and tried many many options. Finally decided to format and reinstall windows. So on a fresh install, and only WoW and a few other programs, its still happening. Thought it may be driver related, but I'm pretty sure its hardware related now. And my video card kept saying: display driver stopped responding and has recovered
-display driver nvidia windows kernal mode driver, version 331.65 stopped responding and has successfully recovered.. This was even happening while in desktop or browsing through chrome. So I downclocked it through Afterburner and it seemed to fix everything for about an hour, then the dreaded bsod... Really getting frustrated here and almost ready to take it to a shop, but I cant have that, because that would mean I failed at being a man.. lol Any suggestions? Or what info I need to upload for you pc gurus out there? I have ran memtest86 for 14 hours on both sticks of my 8 gigs of ram, and monitored my cpu and gpu temps and both seem fine. I'm leaning towards a faulty psu? Here is the error report from the last crash that windows gives me:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: a
BCP1: 0000000000B22E29
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000001
BCP4: FFFFF8000304EEA1
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\111413-21060-01.dmp
C:\Users\Josh\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-27066-0.sysdata.xml

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November 14, 2013 4:58:21 PM

Please list all your components, brand and model...CPU, Mother Board, RAM, PSU and GPU.
This will help us a good deal.
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November 14, 2013 5:40:59 PM

Hey thanks for the reply. I have an Intel core i5-3570k @ 3.40 GHz, Asus P8Z77-Vlx motherboard, corsair 750w psu, and GTX560 gpu. Also have 8 gigs of Corsair Vengeance LP ram.
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November 14, 2013 6:07:34 PM

Do you have the latest BIOS and mobo drivers, it appears it may be a driver issue or possibly the PSU is failing. If not BIOS or mobo drivers could try a different PSU if available or you can borrow one
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November 14, 2013 6:47:29 PM

Yea, well I updated the BIOS about a month or 2 ago.. Just reinstalled the mobo drivers via the cd that came with the motherboard. trying to find newest ones online, but being a bit of a pain.. I'll try that i the am, and if thats not it, I have an old crappy psu here that I can try.. Thanks for the info, I'll report back here in the am.
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