I built my PC back in September and this issue started about a month or two ago. It used to happen infrequently, but now is happening every single time I play any game.
What happens is that i'll be playing the game for a while (The crash occurs the quickest when i'm playing Battlefield 4, in which I can usually expect a crash after about 5 minutes of gameplay), and then I will hear a short audio loop from the game before I hear a few loud sounds in my headset (Like this).
Sometimes I will get a screen with randomly-colored lines of pixels on it along with the sounds.
In both of these cases, the only thing that allows me to use my PC again is to do a hard reset.
I've determined that it is not a temperature issue, because my CPU never gets above 65 degrees C and my GPU never gets above 75 degrees C while gaming. I even extensively cleaned my PC of any dust even though there was barely any in the case to begin with.
PC specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Felsg2574/saved/zzM48d
What happens is that i'll be playing the game for a while (The crash occurs the quickest when i'm playing Battlefield 4, in which I can usually expect a crash after about 5 minutes of gameplay), and then I will hear a short audio loop from the game before I hear a few loud sounds in my headset (Like this).
Sometimes I will get a screen with randomly-colored lines of pixels on it along with the sounds.
In both of these cases, the only thing that allows me to use my PC again is to do a hard reset.
I've determined that it is not a temperature issue, because my CPU never gets above 65 degrees C and my GPU never gets above 75 degrees C while gaming. I even extensively cleaned my PC of any dust even though there was barely any in the case to begin with.
PC specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Felsg2574/saved/zzM48d
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