Could the graphic's card be causing these loops of crashing?

Small_Fry

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Lemme start from the beginning:

This is a custom built PC with Geforce GTX 770. SPECS:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670k CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.39GHz
RAM: 16 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
Windows 7

Throughout the couple years this PC has been used, you'd get random bluescreens whether it'd be playing games or just plain Googling. Recently though, a PC game I played literally crashed the PC now and is on a restart loop. Let me explain step-by-step what exactly happens.

1. Loads game
2. Crashes on logos and PC restarts automatically
2A. or crashes while loading save game and just the game itself freezes, can alt-tab, etc.
3. If it crashes the PC, start the PC up again and it "works" fine. Could randomly watching porn (im jk) and then it crashes right then and there and maybe goes blue screen, sometimes not
4. Then it'll start back up and load up at the BIOS screen, then it'll go to the "Start Windows in Safe Mode, etc." screen
5. Choose Start Windows Normally
6. Fucks up at the "welcome" screen and automatically restarts and does the whole process over again
6A. Sometimes it'll get to the desktop but then after like 3s at it, it'll go black and the PC restarts
7. Nothing more to say, PC is just shut down now. If it is important (prob not) you can go into Safe Mode and everything is just dandy

During the rare gaps of when it's functioning fine, I used WhoCrashed and it said that the Nvidia Windows Kernel Mode Driver caused every single recent PC crash. Is it solely the graphic's card glitching up? If so, is it recommended I buy a new one. If that is also so, which should I buy (preferably get an upgraded version while I'm at it). Thanks for taking your time for reading this mess of a thread and hopefully I get some solid ass answers!

P.S. it isn't overclocked
 
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Where you refer to Safe Mode working OK in point 7 is a clue Small_Fry.

Whilst in Safe Mode with internet access, check with Windows "Device Manager" and see if there are any yellow triangles indicating a bad driver issue. If you do then delete the offending driver as this could be the cause.
Download the latest Nvidia driver from their web site and install it.

If the issue still persists then you will have to Check in "msconfig" to see if it's a service that is causing the problem which you can prevent by disabling that service. I know there are many services however you can test this by changing to selective startup, hide all MS services and disable any other service to test.

There are a number of checks you can do before you...
Where you refer to Safe Mode working OK in point 7 is a clue Small_Fry.

Whilst in Safe Mode with internet access, check with Windows "Device Manager" and see if there are any yellow triangles indicating a bad driver issue. If you do then delete the offending driver as this could be the cause.
Download the latest Nvidia driver from their web site and install it.

If the issue still persists then you will have to Check in "msconfig" to see if it's a service that is causing the problem which you can prevent by disabling that service. I know there are many services however you can test this by changing to selective startup, hide all MS services and disable any other service to test.

There are a number of checks you can do before you decide its the GPU that needs replacing.
Try your iGPU and remove the GTX 770 from the equation.

Be patient Small_Fry as it can be a lengthy troubleshoot. hopefully not.
Does your system BSOD and if so, see if you can obtain the dump file created in your root directory which has an extension .DMP. If so this can be analyzed to identify the culprit.

Try the above first and please report back.
 
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Small_Fry

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Ok will do!