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Noctua DH14 pushing GTX 770

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April 6, 2014 5:30:16 AM

Hi all,

Here are my specs:
Silverstone PS07 micro ATX case

i5 4670k
EVGA iChill GTX 770 2GB
ASUS Gryphon Z87 micro-atx motherboard (installed in the first slot, as it doesn't fit over the audio cable when in the 2nd slot)
Corsair vengeance RAM (2x8GB) DDR3
Corsair 650W PSU
Noctua NH-D14 cooler

I first built the PC last year July and can't remember having any crashes.
Recently I started GPU mining litecoins and my PC would always crash after a few minutes of mining, so I stopped mining.

This past week, I've had random episodes of my entire screen going blue/pink/white for a moment, then either rebooting, or windows will recover with the message "Nvidia display driver has crashed".
Sometimes, the PC wouldn't even boot up after the crash, although I could hear the windows login sound.
I then reset the CMOS using the jumpers, and it seemed to work.

I upgraded to the latest GPU drivers 2-3 weeks ago (335.21).
I have now downgraded back to v326.41 which I used when I first built my PC.

The Noctua's cooler fan clips were pushing back/up on the GPU (the GPU's IO backplate was skew when viewed from the back of the PC), so I have removed the Noctua cooler and replaced it with the intel stock cooler.

The back of the GPU has a backplate so the clips weren't in contact with the PCB, but I think that the crashes may have been caused by the cooler pushing the GPU slightly out of its socket?

The BSOD code was 116.

What could have caused the crashes?
1.) GPU litecoin mining damaged the GPU
2.) Latest driver causing the crashes/reboots
3.) Noctua cooler clips pushing the GPU out of the fully upright position in the slot, which may explain why it worked again when I had the PC flat on it's side (GPU now has better contact with the PCI slot)

The onboard motherboard DVI port worked fine.

I have since not had any crashes (24 hours running since removing Noctua cooler)

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April 6, 2014 7:52:47 AM

turner1 said:
so I have removed the Noctua cooler and replaced it with the intel stock cooler.

What could have caused the crashes?

3.) Noctua cooler clips pushing the GPU out of the fully upright position in the slot, which may explain why it worked again when I had the PC flat on it's side (GPU now has better contact with the PCI slot)

I have since not had any crashes (24 hours running since removing Noctua cooler)

It's always kind of guessing,but the lines in the quote probably say it all.

If it stays like this sell the noctua and buy a nice aio watercooler or a smaller air cooler.

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