Computer stutters, then graphics drivers crash, followed by extreme slowdown that requires reboot

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Tyson31088

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For the past three weeks I've had an issue that only seems to occur while gaming. While playing games that put more stress on my system, I have an issue where my computer will start stuttering, then the screen will go black and come back after about 10 seconds with a message saying the graphics drivers crashed. After this occurs, Windows becomes extremely laggy until I reset the computer. After resetting the computer, everything works fine.

This problem can happen after 10 minutes of gaming or two hours of gaming. Also, the slowdown doesn't always happen after the drivers crash. Sometimes I just get a message saying the drivers crashed and everything runs fine.

I replaced my motherboard and CPU shortly after this started happening because they were due for an upgrade. I've also uninstalled/reinstalled my graphics drivers and upgraded to Windows 10 since this started happening, but the problem still persists. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

By the way, here's my build:
Intel Core i7 4790k CPU
MSI Z97 PC Mate Motherboard
Mushkin 8GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GTX 660 GPU
Rosewill Hive 550W PSU
 
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There are 2 possibilities that I can detect.
1. Your psu starting to break. You did said it only start problem when you play games. That mean without playing game you might have no problem.
2. Clash between driver. My 560Ti also said driver has crashed. I found out it was clashed with MSI afterburner. Uninstall the problem then problem reduced significantly (not all).

If this help, please pick as best answer

Your upgrade is making me envy. i7, oh man. Is your ram 2x4Gb? if not then you are making common mistake. Make sure you use 2 piece of ram to enable the dual channel (it help increase performance). You need to upgrade your gpu as well since 660 is kinda sad against i7. My 560Ti might be similar to your 660 and I only give it to a 7 year old amd X4. My 4 year old i5-2320 are having crossfire 280 + 7950 and just found out with Dragon age Inquisition that its play on par with i7+980.
 
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Tyson31088

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Thanks, I'll start looking for any possible conflicts with the driver. I didn't consider that.

I definitely agree that I need to upgrade my GPU, but I try to spread out big purchases. Gonna shoot for a GTX 970 in a couple months. :D I've been wanting to get once since a friend of my showed me its benchmarks.
 
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