Weird crash when playing games

[--sam--]

Hi everyone, so I've recently been having this issue where playing a game (e.g. Total war Warhammer 2 or Vermintide 2) my pc has been deciding around 10 min in to crash to this screen where I have to reset.

Anyone have a clue whats going on here?

Thanks for any help in advance.

My specs:

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz
RAM: 12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z68AP-D3 (Socket 1155)
GPU: 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (NVIDIA)

Screen when it crashes:



Sam

 

[--sam--]

Thanks for the replies last night,

So I've ran it through a stress test and had some interesting results. I should also note when I took the GPU out to clean it the top looked a little crispy.

I ran FurMark twice and for the 1080p preset I got 88c & 84c, if the test didn't finish it would have reached higher temps.

Spoiler: pic of GPU

 

[--sam--]

I have read a few things online and it could be the psu, is there anyway to check this for certain?

What do you guys think the cause could be ?

Thanks for your help so far.

 

[--sam--]

Hi Guys, sorry about forgetting this post.

for anyone coming across this for a fix, the issue for me turned out to be some extra RAM I installed a couple months ago. I added 2x2gb sticks for 12gb total but after a while it was causing this. Removed them, and cleaned out GPU which was very dusty and my PC has been fine since.

thanks for all the help and suggestions.