Computer freezes after approximately 30 mins of graphically demanding game

[Youmg Sandwiche]

I recently installed a new MSI GTX 970 and 8 more GB of ram. At first I ran into a strange issue where my computer would restart itself whilst playing games and come up with some ASUS anti-surge protection. After googling I found out the majority opinion was that it was safe to turn this feature off, as I monitored the voltages of everything carefully and nothing actually slipped out of line.

I am now running into a new issue however. When playing graphically demanding games (The Evil Within with max settings) my computer will have a kind of slow death after about 30 mins - 1 hr of playing. It starts with the game completely freezing, then windows explorer will freeze, then applications like google chrome, then sound will cut out. Then I will get Windows 8.1 blue screen saying there was KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR. I've tried googling this error but I don't really understand it 🙁

Checking out other threads with similar problems suggest overheating but my GPU never went over 72C whilst playing.
Less intensive games never cause this error, it's only when playing graphically intensive games.

Any help would be very much appreciated as I am completely stumped at this one

 

[westom]

After googling I found out the majority opinion was that it was safe to turn this feature off, as I monitored the voltages of everything carefully and nothing actually slipped out of line.

A majority assume it if works, then it is not defective. Normal is for a defective supply to boot and run a computer for months or years. While slowly becoming more troublesome. The fewer who actually learn this stuff pay attention to a message that said something in its power system (PSU is only one part) is defective.

One minute of labor, some requested instructions, a meter, and resulting three digit numbers means the fewer who know this stuff can say which part is defective - without speculation.

Three choices exist. 1) Get numbers to learn what is defective (hopefully before the warranty expires). 2) Keep replacing good parts until the system becomes more stable. Or 3) don't worry; be happy. Just ignore it as so many others do.

In time, the problem will probably get worse.

Heat is a diagnostic tool. Heat may also find a power system defect. Unfortuntely too many use only observation to make conclusions. They see a computer in a 100 degree room fail. Then assume heat is destructive. Nonsense. Heat has identified a completely defective part that is failing only at 100 degrees today. And maybe starts failing at 70 degrees next year. Heat finds defective parts. But many who know only from their assumptions somehow conclude heat created that defect.

Maybe use heat (ie hair dryer on highest heat setting is ideal temperature for any consumer electronics) to find a defect that is currently causing intermittent crashes.