Crashing in a new build

Ice213

Ice213

Ice213

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It seems as though I'm making more threads about my new builds problems than I am actually using said new build, but this time it's a more serious problem.

Everything has been running fine since I built it about 2 weeks ago, until last night when I was playing driver San Francisco, when half way through a mission the screen flashed up really quickly to what I think was some grey and black lines on the screen, then the monitor went off. Sound was stuck in game and I couldn't do anything until I held the power button and turned the thing off. When I booted windows it gave me a message about recovering from an unexpected shut down and the information was that it blue screened (seemingly with no blue).

That was pretty late on last night and so I shut it down for the night, booted it back up today, playing same game (different mission, been playing for an hour maybe more), same thing happened. No message when I booted window this time, but definitely the same issue.

Any suggestions about what could be causing this? I assume it could be graphics card but I'm not 100%.

Specs are as follows:

i5 3570k (stock)
Gigabyte Z77x-UD5H
8GB Corsair Vengeance Ram @1600
Kingston Hyperx SSD 240gb
850w XFX xxx edition PSU
7970 with accelero cooler (Running stock normally and then overclock it when gaming. Gamed with the overclock before this though for hours at a time on Max Payne 3, so I assumed it wasn't the overclock, but maybe it is).

Thanks everyone :)
 
Well that's the game I've been playing recently yeah, I've been playing gotham city impostors too, but I don't always but the OC on for that...I forget sometimes ;). But it didn't happen whilst playing Max Payne 3 (completed it late last week/early this week), and I ran the OC on that quite a bit if i remember.

I will get rid of the OC and try playing it again, see what happens. Problem is, it happened an hour or so into playing...so I'll have to play for an hour or so again to see if it happens, which is a pain :(. Lol
 
So far nothing to report crash wise. Could it be this game doesn't like the overclock? Or is it still looking like the overclock in general was no good?
 
Sorry to effectively triple post here, but some new info...

I had to nip out for a lil while, so I put the OC on the graphics card, and then ran the Kombuster stress/stability test while I went out. Ran without a hitch (1080p, 8 x msaa, DX11. Max settings basically) for over 2 hours, and the peak temp it reached was 62 degrees. Obviously people say to run these things for longer than that to see if it is truly stable, but the crash this morning was (I think) within 2 hours of me switching on the computer...well I made the thread at just before 10 so that is a definite yes to within 2 hours :p.

I'm hoping this was just an odd thing to do with Driver: San Fran running on my computer seeing as the stress test didn't crash it. Weird times
 
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