Freezing & Crashing when gaming with GTX 750 TI

[Raydawn]

A couple months ago (mid August) I built my first gaming pc to replace my old laptop that died.

My system had been running fine until yesterday evening when any game I loaded that was remotely graphics heavy (or more specifically 3D) crashed a short while after loading.
I've checked numerous forum posts in and outside of Toms but most of them are either a year+ old or have solutions that I can't reproduce for different reasons.

Essentially i'm lost as to what do at this point and tempted to just RMA the card, but i'd prefer not to if it can be avoided!

PC Specs;

Mobo = Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H
Processor = Intel i5 4460
Graphics = EVGA GTX 750 Ti
Memory = Hyperx fury 8gb 1866mhz
Harddrive = WD Blue 1tb hdd
Powersupply = EVGA 500B (500w)

I have tried clean installing the drivers for the graphics card too, and I had no problems when I lplayed games without the 750 Ti.

 

[clutchc]

You might need to clean house on the whole machine. Give CCleaner a try. It will clean up registry errors, junk files, software conflicts, and more.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
Then see if the system still crashes when gaming. If it still does, run DDU from safe mode to get rid of all remnants of both Nvidia and AMD gfx drivers. Then do a clean install of the latest driver for your card and OS.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/display_driver_uninstaller.html
Lastly, disable as much stuff as possible that is running in the background when you game. Look in your tray to see what you can run on an as-need basis only. If all that doesn't solve the issue, the card itself may be failing. Or possibly even the PSU.

 

[Mysticking32]

Try this. Install ddu and select nvidia. Then select clean and shutdown (for new graphics card). Take the gpu out of the pci slot and make sure it's clean. Place it back in and boot the pc. Go to nvidia's website and make sure you download a fresh set of the latest drivers available. Then install. Should be working now.

 

[Raydawn]

You might need to clean house on the whole machine. Give CCleaner a try. It will clean up registry errors, junk files, software conflicts, and more.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
Then see if the system still crashes when gaming. If it still does, run DDU from safe mode to get rid of all remnants of both Nvidia and AMD gfx drivers. Then do a clean install of the latest driver for your card and OS.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/display_driver_uninstaller.html
Lastly, disable as much stuff as possible that is running in the background when you game. Look in your tray to see what you can run on an as-need basis only. If all that doesn't solve the issue, the card itself may be failing. Or possibly even the PSU.

I've never heard of DDU before so atleast now I know the drivers have actually been clean installed haha!
Plus I use CCleaner on a weekly basis anyhow, so there shouldn't be any issues there. Will grab a can of compressed air just to blast out any dust in the heatsink and see if that also helps.

But for now, thanks for the help!