Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

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So about a month ago I bought an Asus rog strix 1070 and it worked perfectly with games like csgo and league ( and still does to this day) however I began playing Battlefield 4 on my pc and noticed I kept getting the same crash
on the event logs under the system, I noticed every time it crashed it showed:
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
but this only ever happened in the respawn screen and very very rarely when I actually was playing. this crash maybe happened once every 30 mins or so, so it never bothered me all that much. however, I bought assassins creed odyssey the other day, and this same crash that happened in Battlefield 4 became the bane of my life. every almost every time I tried to change an in-game setting or even level up a skill the game would crash. this made the game almost unplayable. so I began looking up fixes for the crash, and I began trying all the ones I could

set max performance on GPU
reinstall drivers
reinstall windows
reseated my graphics card and ram
pretty much the lot.
I've tried taking out ram sticks to see if one of them was faulty, also ran memtest86 over the night and had no errors (it did have a note about it possibly struggling with intensive use I think)

I also thought it might be a power supply issue so I replaced my former corsair 550w with a 1000w which was on sale at the time

I did then try the TdrDelay 8 and disabling Tdr one both somewhat worked:
the Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. no longer displayed in my event viewer, however, when i crashed it now said "program" has been blocked from accessing Graphics hardware. but it was still the same crash at the same point.

none of these fixes have seemed to help me. so I got out MSI afterburner and just watched my CPU and GPU just before and during the crash.
I'm not sure what it means but just before the crash my CPU usage would drop to about 40% sometimes lower, this would then cause my GPU clock to drop and spike back up bringing my GPU usage to 100% and then closing the game with "program" has been blocked from accessing Graphics hardware.
I've thought about just returning the GPU but as I bought it from a reselling store I wouldn't necessarily be able to get a replacement. but part of me just doesn't think Its the graphics card, based on the fact that this crash only occurs in menu screens such as the battlefield respawn screen and AS O skill upgrade screen and only incredibly rarely actually in-game.
I really hope I can get some advice. And thank you for reading at least.

Mobo: ASRock Z97 anniversary
Cpu: Intel core i5 4460
Gpu: Asus gtx 1070
Ram: hyperX 8gb 1600mhz and x2 ADATA 4gb 1600mhz sticks
Psu: corsair RM1000x
Hard Drive: crucial 500gb SSD x2 WD 1tb hdd
OS: Widows 10 Pro (tried Home aswell)
 
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I went on MSI afterburner and manually disabled the boost clock by pressing CTRL - F and dragging the clock to 1650 MHz, I've not tried going higher yet.
but this has stopped the crashing for now