BSOD during heavy GPU use but CPU is overclocked
I recently built a computer, and it was doing okay for a few days. It just started crashing a lot while playing video games (screen freezes and it makes a loud noise - particularly GW2, which I'm told is more CPU heavy). It also blue screens sometimes. After exiting out of a GPU benchmark program (trying to get it to crash to see if i could figure out if it was the CPU or GPU), it crashed and blue screened while surfing the web a few minutes after I quit the GPU benchmarking program. I overclocked my 4790K to a ratio of 48 (base of 40), but I did not try to overclock my GPU (EVGA GTX 980). I also had an incident where the screen went black for a second and I got a message saying the Nvidia kernel crashed and recovered. I just scaled the overclocking down from 48 to 44, but I don't know why my graphics card seems to be having problems. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
I recently built a computer, and it was doing okay for a few days. It just started crashing a lot while playing video games (screen freezes and it makes a loud noise - particularly GW2, which I'm told is more CPU heavy). It also blue screens sometimes. After exiting out of a GPU benchmark program (trying to get it to crash to see if i could figure out if it was the CPU or GPU), it crashed and blue screened while surfing the web a few minutes after I quit the GPU benchmarking program. I overclocked my 4790K to a ratio of 48 (base of 40), but I did not try to overclock my GPU (EVGA GTX 980). I also had an incident where the screen went black for a second and I got a message saying the Nvidia kernel crashed and recovered. I just scaled the overclocking down from 48 to 44, but I don't know why my graphics card seems to be having problems. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
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My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- OS
- 64-bit Windows 7 Pro
- CPU
- Intel i7 4790K
- Motherboard
- Asus Maximus VII Hero
- Memory
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX980 Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5
- Hard Drives
- Seagate Desktop 2 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6 GB
- Antivirus
- MBAM
- Browser
- Chrome/Firefox
