How to Find out what is causing crashes.

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Hi all. Heres my system specs.

CPU: i5 6600k
GPU: GTX 1080Ti
MOBO: Gigabyte z170 gaming
RAM: 16gb Ballistix sport ddr4
PSU: Corsair CX650M

Recently purchased a used GTX 1080ti from a good source on Ebay. Still has warranty for 2 years. Its been a few weeks since I've played games but with this new card I wanted to get back into gaming. I noticed that most games I play (DOOM, Fortnite, Deus Ex) freeze within 10-15 minutes of playing them and I have to CTL +alt+delete to exit them. I had been trying to Overclock my CPU at the same time so I decided to put this back to stock settings. I still seem to be getting the crashes. I just want to know how I should go about seeing what the cause of these crashes are? Is there some sort of debug mode or logs that I can look at that might help?
 
I would try to isolate the issue, try that GPU in another system if possible. You weren't having these freezing issues before the new 1080ti were you? if not run DDU and try to reinstall drivers as that would seem to be the other reason that it might be freezing in-game like that
 
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I was not getting crashes before the 1080ti but I also havent gamed in a while which makes it a little difficult to say whether something went bad before this. I have run DDU a few times and reinstalled the drivers and am still getting crashes. Could a motherboard BIOS update fix this? I havent touched the mobo since 2016.