Computer crashing after installing new graphics card.

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Doserdog

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I'm a competetive counter-strike player. About 2 months ago i switched for an AMD RADEON HD 7790 2Gb GPU to a NVIDIA GTX 770 4Gb GPU. At which point i started to get random computer crashes. Every once in a while it would give me a memory dump blue screen. But normally it just shuts down, then restarts right away on it's own. Specs are below. I have tried a few different things but nothing has seemed to help. So any help is greatly appreciated.

SPECS.
Intel Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
NVIDIA GTX 770 4Gb
Kingston 120 GB SSD
Corsair 750W PSU
Gigabyte Ultra-Durable MOBO
 
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If you've had time to load up your system with apps, pgms, and other stuff, you may give CCleaner a run. That will eleiminate the possiblity of it being registry errors, software conflicts, etc. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

If the restart continues to happen, it would almost have to be a hardware failure... in this order of possibilities I think: PSU, MB, gfx card. Can you temporarily try a different PSU? I have a brand new high quality PSU that started giving me problems starting after it sits for awhile, like over night. I have to unplug it for 10 seconds and then it will start again. So even a good PSU can fail.
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Yeah, did a driver sweep, then reinstalled, didnt help. did a full reformat. has done it one time since then.
 
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How long has it been since you re-installed Win (7?)? If it was recently and you are still getting a BSOD, it may be a bad memory module. Have you run memtest on each stick individually?
http://www.memtest.org/
 
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i reformatted about 2 weeks ago, and haven't gotten BSOD since then, but have gotten black screen and the restart 1 time since. Usually around 2-3 hours of playing Counter-Strike
 
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If you've had time to load up your system with apps, pgms, and other stuff, you may give CCleaner a run. That will eleiminate the possiblity of it being registry errors, software conflicts, etc. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

If the restart continues to happen, it would almost have to be a hardware failure... in this order of possibilities I think: PSU, MB, gfx card. Can you temporarily try a different PSU? I have a brand new high quality PSU that started giving me problems starting after it sits for awhile, like over night. I have to unplug it for 10 seconds and then it will start again. So even a good PSU can fail.
 
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