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bluehowell

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Yesterday my PC started crashing and displaying BSOD after a couple of minutes of gaming. It would either freeze and display BSOD or the game would crash and I would close it with task manager but after that it would be unresponsive and go to BSOD after a few seconds. I monitored temps up to the BSODs and they were fine CPU never went above 50C, GPU never went above 65C. I updated my graphics drivers but still BSODs. Could it be my PSU? its a 2 year old 700W Coolermaster GX lite.

I've uploaded the .dmp files from \windows\Minidump

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9s7GX-zJgLrSXlKSFN3dmh1WTQ&usp=sharing
 
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clutchc
I didn't know you had an OC involved. Depending on what was increased and how much, over a year's time of hard use it may have taken its toll on one or more components. CPU, VRM, Capacitor, PSU, memory...
Or maybe you were right at the edge of stability and the aging of the components after a year of OC made the difference. Just guesses...
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BSODs can be caused many things. I'd first try to clean up any resource wasting crap and registry errors by running CCleaner: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Have it do the Clean and Registry sections both.

If still no joy, uninstall the gfx driver and run this: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/550192/geforce-drivers/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v12-9-3-4-released-06-09-14-/
Then reboot and install the latest driver for your card and OS.

Also, try to disable as much crap starting with Windows as possible. If your tray is full of stuff, you may have software conflicts that crash the driver.

It's also possible that a stick of memory has gone bad. Run memtest on each stick individually in the first slot (recommended by your MB manual for single sticks) for at least one full pass. If any errors appear at all, the stick is faulty. http://www.memtest.org/
 
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After disabling my CPU overclock which i've had for about a year I've had no problems gaming, no blue screen after an hour of intense gaming whereas before it would always blue screen in under 5 mins. Why is this? The overclock's been stable for a year with no PC stability issues. Without the overclock I lost 15 fps in Rome II which i'm pretty pissed at. I suppose 15 fps less is better than none at all though.
 
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I didn't know you had an OC involved. Depending on what was increased and how much, over a year's time of hard use it may have taken its toll on one or more components. CPU, VRM, Capacitor, PSU, memory...
Or maybe you were right at the edge of stability and the aging of the components after a year of OC made the difference. Just guesses...
 
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Sorry thought you would have seen the OC info in my signature. It was 4.8 from 4.0GHz. You are probably right about it being tiped over the edge of stability. I'll try knock it down to 4.6 tomorrow and see if it likes that. Thanks for the suggestions
 
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You're right, I should have. My bad.
Yeah, see if dropping it a bit will solve the issue. Was it strictly a multi increase, or did you have to increase vcore also?
 
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