BSOD during games

Arsacid

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Sep 6, 2014
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Hi, I've been having many...many BSOD in the last few months, but only when I play games. Nothing else will cause the crash. There is a freeze time during games, about 1-2 minutes before resuming and then would randomly crash anywhere from 5-2 hours in-games. The temp. is only up to about 55-65 during max load but rarely more than that. I do believe it is the PSU that is causing the problem, however I do not want to change it if there's nothing wrong with it.

My computer is about 4-5 years old now. This is the rig:

CPU: Intel i7 960
MOBO: EVGA x58 SLI3
Graphics: EVGA GTX 760 (Recently upgraded from GTX550 Ti)
HDD: Barracuda 2TB (Upgraded from Barracuda 500GB)
PSU: Cool Power Gamer ATX CP-G1080
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (2x4GB)
DVD Drive: HP (I cannot find the model, only the brand)

This is a computer that a friend built for me before, and there were absolutely no problem until recently. There would be sounds like basketball shoes made on the court, the high pitch sound. Then after a few times of that, it will be a random BSOD within the time mentioned above. I ran this through a burn-in test with everything on max load. It continuously ran for 12 hours straight without a single error. Hopefully someone here would be able to figure out something with the PC.
 

Arsacid

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Sep 6, 2014
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I have the basic fan that came with the i7, so do you think that might be the problem? However when it's running on 100% load with the burn-in program, there isn't any noise or problem with it. On idle the CPU is about 40s C.

Sorry I do not know much about computer so not sure what uefi is, but i downloaded HWMonitor to check voltage.

HWMonitor (Idle)
+12V: Min 12.184 Max 12.406
+5V: Min 4.667 Max 4.835
+3.3V Min 3.312 Max 3.408