GTX 1080 freezes system and causes artifacts on startup screen

DBDavid58

Commendable
Sep 4, 2016
9
0
1,510
After about 20 minutes of gaming my screen freezes and my EVGA GTX 1080 FTW fans rev up to 100% and the whole computer locks up. I must hard reset it and when I do the startup screen usually will have artifacts and freeze up. I will have to use the integrated graphics to continue to use the computer. The issue is intermittent, sometimes I can get the 1080 to display again. I've been monitoring the temperatures and they do not go above 65C. Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.

CPU: Intel i7-4790K
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GBx2
PSU: EVGA Supernova 1000 G2 80 Plus
Motherboard: Gigabyte z97x Gaming GT
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
OS: Windows 10
 

DBDavid58

Commendable
Sep 4, 2016
9
0
1,510


That makes sense. I want to make sure I'm not missing something before I RMA.