WHEA Uncorrectable Error message (many of these going around...)

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OrionUnas

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Hey everyone, so I have just recently got a new computer.

I ordered through NCIX (cause I'm Canadian and such) about a month or so ago. If I remember everything correctly, my components are....

Gigabyte (Windforce) GTX 770 (using nvidia drivers from Nvidia website. When I downloaded the drivers from Gigabyte, it just installed the NVidia drivers from the website...)

Intel i5-4670k 3.4 GHz (dual core)

64-bit Windows 8.1

Asus Z87-A mobo

3 hard drives (possibly getting old...?) - seagate barracuda-

1 Kingston HyperX Blue 8gb (single stick) ddr3 and, 1 2gb Kingston ddr3.

I haven't overclocked anything, and as far as I know BIOS settings are all default. I get this seemingly mostly when I am playing games. Actually I haven't gotten it outside of a game I believe.

One day I'm playing Diablo 3, and boom, BSOD. It was the first time actually. Then I looked up the info and couldn't find any relevant information. I checked my mobo's capacitators to make sure they weren't bulging, and they were fine.

Second time I was playing Hearthstone, same error. I JUST got it again a few minutes ago playing Diablo 3.

This leads me to believe it's probably the graphics card or drivers?

Can someone give me some advice so I can narrow down the culprit? A list would be nice. If it is indeed the GPU, should I unplug and run the GPU from intel chipset and try that?

Thanks anyone and everyone!

(edit)

Oh yeah, and while I was playing D3, i heard this small chirping noise, pretty sure it was coming from the speakers. Loaded up D3 after the restart, heard the same noise.
 
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OrionUnas

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Actually before mixing the ram, the problem was there. I inserted the ram after the first time it happened. But since now I know mixing ram is not a "good idea," I'll take out the 2 gb.

However, the problem still reared it's ugly head even before I added the ram :(
 
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WHEA Uncorrectable Error has a number of possible causes, you could have a bad stick of RAM, so you may want to run Memtest to make sure your 8GB stick is good. It can be caused by an unstable overclock, some utility software that comes on the motherboard driver CD can automatically overclock your CPU, make sure it isn't doing that. The error could also be the result of corrupt Windows files, and if you have older hard drives, the one storing your Windows may be going, so you probably should run a chkdsk to make sure your hard drive is okay.

It could also be you have a bad CPU, but those are extremely rare, and I'd only replace that component after you have ruled out every other possible cause.
 
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