Bluescreens of Death

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Hello everyone,

since a few weeks ago I am getting very annoying blue screens from time to time. It always happens when I am gaming and the information on it are pretty... sparse.

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The interesting thing is that the bluescreen does not always appears. Most games (including The Wither 2 and BF3) work very well. Indeed, the only programs where I had issues were Trine 2, 3DMark11 and LoL (once). Almost every time I am running 3DMark11 i will get the above bluescreen within a minute or so. In Trine it is much less predictable, but it is the very same error messages as in 3DMark.

I once got a bluescreen while playing LoL as well. I am not sure if it is related to the other bluescreen but I will post it nevertheless just to make sure you have all the information I have:

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I am running Win7, my system is:

CPU: i5 2500k clocked @4,5GHz (stable for 2 Years now + I tested it with Prime95)

GPU: Gigabyte HD7870 Windforce OC, runs usually at 1,1V and its regular clock speed (1100/4500), stock Voltage is 1.218V though. The 1.1V thing was stable over two years as well so I dont see why this should be the problem.

RAM: 16GB Kingston 1333Mhz

HDD: Corsair SSD 120GB

MoBo: Asus P8P67 Rev 3.1

PSU: bequiet! 580W

 

I already did run the bootable memtest with no errors. The CPU is stable but I am not too sure about the GPU anymore. Could it be that even after two years of stable settings things have changed now just because the card is getting older? I haven't used the PC for 5 months because I was spending some time abroad. Could something have happened in the meantime (the PC was stored in a rather col and dry environment).

These problems will not bother me much longer becaue I am getting a new SSD+PSU+GPU on Monday but I would like to sell my old stuff. And I don't want to be that guy who is selling faulty hardware...

 

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I'm glad you stress tested the cpu, sometimes the psu can be the root of the problem but I'm sure you more that ok with 850w. gpu sounds like the prime candidate here. try swapping out the gpu then run 3d mark. if you dont have a spare laying  around get msi after burner and turn down the gpu and memory clocks just a little bit maybe 50 or 100 mhz. dont touch the voltage. tell me how you go then get back to me.

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also try google the bsod codes they can offer insight sometimes :D

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My gess is cpu or gpu degradation your overclocks may now need a little extra voltage or to be down clocked a little.

Outher than that have you installed any new drivers recently?

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Well. I just got a rock stable 3D Mark run: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2579165

I guess cooperman was right and is was indeed the voltage on the GPU. I did let the clock speeds at stock but increased the voltage a bit (still lower than stock voltage) and voilà no more crashes. This actually fits well in me having had stable runs with my OC setting (1,256V 1200/1450, http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2540562). The voltage there seems to be high enough. I never thought that the card would need more voltage when it gets older.

BTW googling the error codes didn't help because most of the numbers are literally zero.