BSOD 124 while gaming

djnavasv

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Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate
AS-ROCK N68C-GS FX
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
8192MB RAM HYPER X @1600MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB
260GB SSD
EVGA 600B Power Supply @600 W

I can play games for hours sometimes like GTA V and Mortal Kombat X. Sometimes if I switch between this games the blue screen of death happens faster. I always get error BSOD 124 or computer simply restarts. Then when I get back into Windows, I get the message for BSOD error 124.

I had an Phenom II X6 2.8Ghz before and 6 GB of RAM at 1333Mhz before upgrading to this new build and a different PSU.

Things I have tried:

- Used the old rams
- Enable Thermal throttle within the BIOS (This actually helped but the bsod happened very rarely though. This also decreases CPU performace a lot.
- AMD Turbo Core is disabled
- I used the old Power Supply which I thought was the problem so I ended up buying this EVGA Power supply
- I have completely reinstalled Windows 7 into this new SSD
- I have all drivers updated
- BIOS is up to date
- Video card is a little overclocked just at 100hz more to get the exact same performace as the Superclocked version. I didi this before and I could overclock even more than I can now for some reason.
- When playing MKX GPU temperature never reach its maximul allowed which is 80c by default and still BSOD comes up.
-CPU temperatures on GTA V only reaches about 64c sometimes, which is where the thermal throtle would kick in if i had it active to keep it at 61c.

Any ideas?
 
motherboards can shut down the processor if the PCI/e bus uses over 75 watts. Often they do this by resetting the CPU and if you have a power supply that does not send a proper power_ok signal the processer just starts up again before the power is stable. Then the CPU gets a error in its memory controller and bugchecks the system with a bugcheck 0x124.

if you have a proper power supply, often you will just get a blank screen instead of the fast reboot and CPU called bugcheck.
still a power issue though. The gpu can pull too many watts from the bus and start a shutdown without reaching its thermal shutdown/throttle temps. Cheap motherboards just might let your graphics slot/GPU go up in smoke.

generally the memory dump has clues to the cause of the bugcheck.
you can dump the reason for the bugcheck in the debugger, and you can look at the system up timer to get a idea of how long the system was up. If the timer says less than 15 seconds then the CPU was most likely reset by the motherboard or power supply logic, or a power fluctuation. longer times (maybe over 15 mins) tend to indicate overheating problems.

Often with fast boot and solid state drives people do realize that the motherboard rebooted. They just see a delay and a bugcheck code. the value of the voltage to the CPU determines if you reboot and get a bugcheck or just a black screen.
 

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