Gaming PC crashes in certain games

ntj123

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Jun 5, 2016
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First let me put my specs
CPU: Intel(R) i5-6600 3.30GHz 6MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151
(Skylake)
FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling
Performance (Single Standard 120MM Fan)
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
HS_HANGER: None
IUSB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR4/2400MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance)
MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z170A Gaming Pro ATX w/ Programmable Lighting, USB
3.1, 3 PCIe x16, 4 PCIe x1, 1 SATA Express, 4 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition)
OVERCLOCK: No Overclocking
POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply -
SLI_BRIDGE: Standard SLI/Crossfire Bridge
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell) (Single Card)

I bought my gaming PC from Cyberpowerpc and I had this problem where whenever I play a specific game such as Gary's Mod, Skyrim, Prison Architect, and Cities: Skylines and sometimes makes a loud buzzing noise or static noise and I have to force shut down. Sometimes it does not make a noise at all. A few rare occasions it freezes when I leave it idle on whatever screen it was on. The mouse and keyboard light are off and I can't move the mouse making me do a force shut down again. Most recently it has crashed on Gary's Mod and I had to do a hard reset then crashed when I turned it on, on the select BOIS screen.
I have tried the following:

Clean install graphics card
Checked RAM (No errors)
Reinstall Windows

I don't know what's causing the problem. I get no blue screen. Whatcrashed told me it was the graphics card once and then gave me inconclusive hardware later. Event viewers shows no errors but that the system suddenly shut down. I would like to ask someone if they can help me fix this issue if it is software related or help me check what hardware could me causing the issue so I can RMA it or something. Thanks in advance!

 
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Yeah, that might work ok, I guess. In theory if you plug your monitor into the integrated graphics it shouldn't use your GTX970 anyway. I...
Likely a GPU or RAM issue. Pull the GPU out and play some games using the integrated graphics (they won't run well, but they'll still stress everything). If it's completely stable (which I suspect it will be), you'll know it's probably a GPU issue.
 

ntj123

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Jun 5, 2016
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Will it be the same thing if I disable my graphics card from device manager? I don't have a lot of experience with removing hardware from computer. I was just able to remove a ram card to to test it and had trouble putting it back in haha. But I'll try removing it if I have to. It's frustrating me already. I had this problem since December.
 

Yeah, that might work ok, I guess. In theory if you plug your monitor into the integrated graphics it shouldn't use your GTX970 anyway. I always just yank them out myself though, just to be sure.

 
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