PC BSOD when playing GTA V

Zorbarg

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GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 (EVGA)
CPU: Intel i7-2600k
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1
PSU: Corsair GS700
RAM: 16 Gigabytes

I bought GTA V a couple months back and was able to play it smoothly with relatively high settings until randomly a blue screen error occurred saying there was an uncorrectable hardware error and I got the code 0x00000124.

I tried a few things to fix this, but it kept happening after only a few minutes of playing the game. Temps are fine, I ran some tests to check my ram and they came back fine. Eventually instead of just happening during GTA V this started happening when I was just using my computer for any task. Eventually I thought maybe my GPU was faulty since I had recently upgraded from 560 to a 970, so I RMAed the card and temporarily used my 560 again. While using my 560 I wasn't able to play as high demanding games, but the problems ceased and I was no longer crashing.

When I got my 970 replaced, I refrained from playing GTA V and played other things that were also quite demanding such as Witcher 3 on very high settings with no problems. Eventually i wanted to play GTA V of course, so I uninstalled it and reinstalled it to have a go, then within a few minutes it crashed again with the same error.

Right now I'm quite frustrated and have tried everything within my limited knowledge to fix this issue, but I cannot.
 

Fineus_

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A quick search for the error code you mention implies that temperatures may be the culprit. Do you know if your card is running particularly hot whilst playing GTA V? Can you check the temperatures?
 

Zorbarg

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They are fine, as I said in the main post. I checked them on several occasions.