i5 4670K crashing 10-20 minutes into gaming

[Sphynx91]

I bought an intel i5 4670K, Asus Z87-A motherboard and Corsair H80i CPU cooler a few days ago. I have been trying to find a stable overclock ever since day one. Stress tests like AIDA64 and Intel utility show that my system is stable. Idle temperatures are around 35C for both CPU and GPU (Asus GTX 670). At load, my CPU gets to about 60C and my GPU gets to around 70C. Stress tests show 0% throttling. I eventually got very frustrated and decided to bring everything back to stock settings. But all my games continue to crash 10-20 minutes into gaming. Sometimes the crashes result in a full system restart.

 

[EzioAs]

Are you running the 320.18 GeForce driver?

 

[Sphynx91]

Yes

 

[EzioAs]

That could be the possible culprit. Try uninstalling it and install the 320 Beta or something before it and see if you still get any more crash

 

[Sphynx91]

Ok I'll give that a try when I am back home tonight.

 

[jerreece]

The 320.18 driver seems to run 700 series cards without problem. Only folks I've seen having issues are with 600 series or older. I'm sure nVidia will fix the issue with their next release (they generally do).

 

[Sphynx91]

I installed the 320 beta driver instead and it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks!

 

[jerreece]

For the record, I just started having graphical errors in BF3 tonight after gaming for an hour using the 320.18 drivers. Concrete barriers actually turned into upside down American Flags. LOL Was kind of interesting.

 

[Sphynx91]

Ha! That's pretty weird...