Crashing due to overclocking to hard?

Hardware Hub Overclocking
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So I have been overclocking my 980GTX to be able to keep up with the latest and greatest while still on 1440p and getting as high of a fps and graphics quality as possible. The problem I have is that about 1 or 2 hours in to a game (or even less) my game freezes and gives my some kind of orange-ish looking screen forcing me to reboot manually. It's really tedious and I don't think it's my temps either, my max temps are around 78-80 degrees and my overclock is 215 on the core and 450 on the memory. Furthermore I've got my power target at around 120 and my voltage at 12, fan speeds are on auto adjust. I'm stuck guys, could it even be the PSU, or CPU, can anyone please help! Thanks in advance.

Rest of specs:
i7 4770K: Stock clock
Corsair RM1000 modular 80+ gold
16GB ram
Asus maximus VI formula
Win 10 64-bit
REFERENCE GTX 980

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Dial your overclock back to stock and see if the problem persists.

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Will do, appreciate the response!

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If removing the overclock resolves the problem, try again with a more mild overclock and keep pushing it until you find the limit of your hardware.

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Thanks! But any ideas on precautions surrounding voltage and power limits? I would like some insight on what average voltage and power boosts should look like and what aggressive ones should look like. I know it depends on the card but just in general if at all possible.

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Do some homework.

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Been doing some but yeah, not enough I guess. Obliged, have a good one!