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System Crash (new GTX1080)

Do not overclock the CPU, Ram or anything else run it all at stock then see how stable. Its most likely PSU related they degrade over time in normal use & faster if you overclock. On stock clocks on all components that PSU you have is only just about enough I would buy a much stronger model for around £150-200+ as the PSU blowing & absorbing the damage is way cheaper than frying the mobo+cpu+ram!

Remember when you OC you can easily add another 30+% to your power draw the GTX 1080 under peak load can draw a lot of amps on its own!
 
At all stock it runs stable for hours (not had time for a longer test). My PSU (named in first post) is about 3 years old. Could it really be a 750w PSU (decent brand) can't handle a single 1080 at stock and an OC'd 5820? Only asking as I'd had a new cooler on my list before so the next upgrade will either be a CPU cooler or the PSU!
 
Jamieoz said:
At all stock it runs stable for hours (not had time for a longer test). My PSU (named in first post) is about 3 years old. Could it really be a 750w PSU (decent brand) can't handle a single 1080 at stock and an OC'd 5820? Only asking as I'd had a new cooler on my list before so the next upgrade will either be a CPU cooler or the PSU!
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After 3 years of ocing your PSU is going to have degraded a lot so yes its most likely the issue.

Also you should consider the PSU one of the most important component 'syou ever buy it protects your entire system from being fried if there is ever a power fault as a decent model will cut out before any major damage is done!

Spend as much as you can afford on a decent high end PSU it should last you a long time. This is the model I bought from OCUK a few years ago ;)
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...num-modular-power-supply-white-ca-053-ss.html

Pick one from here but look closely at the warranty terms some are better than others.https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/power-supplies/above-800-watts
 
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Microsoft, who make the software, the causes the BSOD certainly think that memory or hard drive errors/corruption can lead to BSOD's....
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I can testify to that. A couple of years ago, I bought more RAM and within a day or two, I started getting random BSODs every few hours. Nirsoft's Blue Screen Viewer and MemTest86 didn't show anything conclusive, and at first I thought it had to do with the RAM timings.

However, it was only after removing the RAM modules and taking a look at the sockets that I noticed that the metal in one of the tiny um... "holes" had been bent a little out of shape. It was easily fixed with a needle, and lo and behold, I have not had a single BSOD since then (touch wood!). :)
 
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AWPC said:
After 3 years of ocing your PSU is going to have degraded a lot so yes its most likely the issue.
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In my opinion, that PSU (SuperFlower Golden Green HX 750W "80 Plus Gold") should still be performing well after 3 years of use, unless it's been "hammered" (run for several hours every day at close to it's rated output).
 
I've had this particular error (BCCode 124) on several client machines. It can be anything; a hardware failure, bad drivers, conflicting drivers, corrupt OS, or hardware-OS conflict...

Looking at your Windows version you seem to still be on Windows 7?

If I were you, I'd be testing the system on a clean install of Windows 10.
 
I'm on my second msi armor 1070 now, that does the same thing, get crashes in bf1 and stuff that pushes it hard

Tried everything, and the only thing that stops the crashing is lowering the gpu's memory over clock

Not ideal really, don't think I'll go for another factory overclocked card
 
I had a GTX460 that crashed under load. It was a complete nightmare to diagnose the cause of the problem. The obvious culprit was the graphics card (which turned out to be the case). The reason for the "nightmare" was that the card ran perfectly in 2 other PCs, and in my system when I fitted a temporary motherboard. My main motherboard was RMA'd, but proved to be working perfectly. It was the graphics card, which refused to work in my motherboard until it was repaired. When it was repaired, it refused to work in the temporary motherboard. You almost couldn't make it up.
 
Dervious said:
In my opinion, that PSU (SuperFlower Golden Green HX 750W "80 Plus Gold") should still be performing well after 3 years of use, unless it's been "hammered" (run for several hours every day at close to it's rated output).
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GTX1080 under heavy load via GPU Boost 3.0 uses a tremendous amount of extra PSU juice! That's just the GPU throw in the CPU+Ram etc etc I think this PSU is marginal for this type of GPU hence me saying back it all back to no overclocks see how stable it is then.

All PSU's degrade over time with natural use any ocing just degrades them faster if you used a probe on the 12V rails like some of the more thorough reviewers do the results on older units would be eye opening!! they lose up to 30% in normal use so ocing introduces even more degradation. PSU's hate extra heat & load its been said by experts they lose around 10% per year if driven harder so a 3 year old PSU = 30% degrade!
http://www.johansondielectrics.com/ceramic-capacitor-aging-made-simple#.Um_e0fmkr9k
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supplies-101,4193.html
 
As my system has been 100% stable since removing the OC on the CPU and after all your wise words I have decided to invest in a new PSU. I'm not hoping for a miracle fix but it seems popular opinion is that my current one lacks the power and is showing it's age.

Thanks again for your help, I'll let you know how it goes for the people of the future with the same problem.
 
AWPC said:
GTX1080 under heavy load via GPU Boost 3.0 uses a tremendous amount of extra PSU juice! That's just the GPU throw in the CPU+Ram etc etc I think this PSU is marginal for this type of GPU hence me saying back it all back to no overclocks see how stable it is then.
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I reckon this system's total power consumption under maximum load would be no more than 550 watts. That's maximum load. When gaming it's probably averaging 450 - 500 watts. A quality 750w PSU should cope quite well with that kind of load. A 600 watt PSU would be marginal (or any cheap PSU !).

I'm not suggesting that there isn't a PSU issue in this case (it could be a brand new 1000 watt PSU and still be faulty), I'm suggesting that I don't think the PSU is under rated, and after 3 years use it should still be working well in that system (if not, I believe it is still under warranty). If I were putting that PC together, I'd specify a quality 700 - 850w PSU, unless the user had plans to go SLI.

It's also worth mentioning that a GTX780ti uses more power than a GTX1080.
 
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I am going to arrange a replacement through overclockers hopefully by describing my symptoms and troubleshooting efforts. Fingers crossed!
 
Sorry to dredge this up once again but the problem persists! I am at a loss now, I really am. I've purchased and done a complete clean install of Windows 10, installed all drivers and BIOS for mobo and gpu is up to date. Overclockers have not accepted my return under warranty as they suspect it is due to me overclocking (not complaining, it's a valid reason).

I've got screenshots of OCCT just before starting a test (the freeze stops me from grabbing them after obviously). When I run the test temps on the CPU rise to about 50 and remain stable, no spikes. Likewise for all other temps. Anyone else have any ideas?

Windows 10 doesn't seem to give me the crash report that Windows 7 used to give me but the crash behavior is exactly the same. Within a few minutes of test start (now with no overclock). The crash happens in both CPU and PSU tests.

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An older Nvidia card, GTX460. I swore I'd never buy another Nvidia card. AMD forced me to change my mind. This one has been great, so far.
 
Dervious said:
This seems to be a GPU / MB compatibility issue.

Been there, done that. Hopefully never again.
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Yep, sounds like it. There should be a workaround though...

Have you tried manually forcing PCIe frequency to default (100MHz)? Perhaps the Auto setting is incorrect/bugging.

Is your PCIe slot running at/set to Gen 3, or Auto?

Do you have any other PCIe devices inserted?

I feel your pain - I had an i7 4770K with Gigabyte Z87X which had similar problems with two GTX980Tis; IIRC on a cold boot the system would randomly allocate 8x to one GPU and 4x to the other. Eventually, I'd get a similar crash and upon reboot it was fine.
 
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