Installed 1080ti, crashes/freezes with newer titles

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Phaaze88

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3570k @ 4.5 with 212 evo
asus p8z77-v pro mobo
16 gb ram
gigabyte g1 gaming 1080ti
seasonic prime 750 titanium
phantom 820 case
asus pg278qr monitor
2 ssds, a 180gb and 1tb
1tb hdd
With the exception of the monitor, gpu, psu, case and 1 ssd, everything else is about 5 years old.

I don't have many samples at the moment, but it appears older games run fine. WoW, Tales of Zestiria, Boson X - even old emulated games, no issues. Tried Redout Enhanced, got fatal error, sometimes insta-crash(everything else would function), and freezing, forcing me to power off/restart pc. The Witcher 3, insta-crash, Ghost Recon Wildlands - froze, insta-crash, granted, I didn't retry the last two as much as the first.

Doom surprisingly ran fine, but maybe because I didn't play far enough in - about an hour's worth?
I didn't experience any slowdowns/fps that others have posted, the games either crashed(everything else functioning), or froze forcing a restart.
And this is also using 2 different custom gpu profiles, one power target at 120% with high fan curve, the other is gigabyte's oc.
 
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Does it crash if you down clock the GTX 1080 Ti to stock (not stock OC but stock GTX 1080 Ti) does it still crash. If yes, while you have a good PSU it may be a sign it is starting to fail. Long gaming sessions (ie more then a 1/2 hour) can cause a PSU to over work itself and crash your PC when they are starting to go bad. The other possibility would be your motherboard starting to tank. Before you worry to much though try stock speeds and also run DDU in safe mode and see if this helps and let us know.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
 
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It's a no-go, in fact, they are crashing even sooner now(at stock settings), as in a few minutes - Doom took a hit as well, but I figured I got lucky with that one. Ghost Recon still crashes in opening campaign cinematic. Older games as posted above still work fine.

I really hope it's not an issue with the psu, it's not even a year old. The mobo at least, I was planning to replace along with a new cpu/ram/etc. in a few months...
 
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Yeah besides reloading windows...swapping out hardware like the PSU and motherboard are all I have left and suspect might be the issue. Sorry the news isn't better. Like I said you could try a windows re-install but my guess is you'll be in the same boat or it will help in the short term and start back up again soon. time will tell. Let us know how things go.
 
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If it really is the psu, wouldn't I experience the same problem when playing cpu demanding games? Then again, it doesn't need nearly as much power as the gpu, so probably not.
And, if it is the motherboard, do you know specifically what the problem would be?

 
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If it is the motherboard...VRMs or Caps could be going bad. Both could cause the issues your talking about. I think reinstalling windows should help. The only other thing you could do is try reseating all RAM, GPUs, PSU connections, SATA, etc. Basically in thing that plugs in one way or another. Heat can cause parts to work free. Beyond that, faulty components and windows reinstall not much else I can think of. Only other thing you could do is try taking it to a tech and see if he finds something you missed and/or did incorrectly.
 
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I completely forgot about this, but I still had my old psu in the closet. If I test with that, it would probably eliminate whether the psu is the problem or not... thing is, its a 5 year old Seasonic X-650, and I doubt it can still push 650. I wasn't sure my system would still be able to run with it which is why I replaced it in the first place.
If a power supply isn't big enough, what's the worst that could happen? I want to be sure before I swap the units out.
 
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Seasonic makes good supplys and 600-650W according to GuruPC should be enough. Worst case it could damage your rig but I think you you'd be ok depending how long your Seasonic was in use. If a full 5 years of usage i think it would be ok for a testing setup but I wouldn't want to run it long term. But no promises on how things turn out. You do anything like this at your own risk, which is typical in self builds.
 
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It took some time, but here's what I've done so far:
Switched to older power supply: X
Ran pc with the case's covers off incase something may have been overheating: X
Ran DDU in safe mode then installed latest drivers: X
Checked integrity of game files on steam library(doesn't account for non-steam games): X
Reinstalled windows: X

My board may be going bad, but it could it also be that my gpu is a lemon? As I only seem to crash on games that give it a workout, none of the cpu-bound ones appear to do it.

Going to try memtest and post results later, as I've been getting that blasted Win 10 memory management stop code.
 
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Ran Memtest with no issues. At this point, I believe it's safe to assume that my gpu is a lemon. Thanks for being so patient with me on this issue, atomicWAR. I don't have a very flexible work schedule, so it took some time to test some of the possible fixes.
 
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Update, and probably the last one:
So I went to newegg's site to go and order another card and out of curiosity, decided to check out the reviews of gigabyte's 1080/tis - was going to jump on asus or msi - and lo, and behold, others were having similar issues such as myself. Some mention that gigabyte's aorus engine software was crap - there are OC, gaming, silent, and custom presets... and only silent mode was without crashes. So I went and uninstalled it, and got msi afterburner... no crashes for the past few days. Good grief! Well that's ~$750 I can put on a cpu upgrade. Thanks again for your time!
 
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