Games keep crashing 5 to 10 minutes in

[codeypalmer]

8700k
msi pro carbon ac z370 Mobo
gtx 1080ti
h100i v2 w/ corsair sp120 rgb fans on radiator 4 throughout the case
corsair 500d case
750 PSU
16gb corsair vengeance

Im not sure what this could be. Ive been doing alot of overclocking on my cpu and i also happen to be crashing in all my games. My cpu is at a very simple overclock of 4.6 at 1.2 volts. My cpu cant even reach a 4.8 ghz overclock with the cooling i have. or at all for what i know. I assumed my overclocking might have triggered this? But i didnt go extreme at all and my temps are back to the norm and ive run this overclock for ever since ive had this cpu.

What ive done:
-12 hours of prime 95.... no crash
-uninstalled nvidia drivers and installed 5 separate drivers to conclude it wasnt that.
-heaven benchmark stress testing. So ive maxed my gpu out and no problems.
- I have reinstalled windows (yes i went that far and the results are the same)
-I have taken off my cpu cooler and remounted it hoping it was not making a proper connection and of course it is. plenty of thermal paste dont bother asking.
-Temp readouts are normal
-And the craziest of them all. I have unplugged my pc and plugged it back in

please feel free to give any feedback. I do use msi afterburner but ive tried without it running but maybe try it again? i mean i used to use it for every game and have only had troubles a hand full of times and would just use something else for my fan controlled software. Please let me know of any helpful info you might have.

 

[codeypalmer]

Oh and one more thing. When i play rocket league to test it to see if it crashes/freezes if i CTRL+ALT+DLT it takes me to the blue screen for task manager and what not so i click cancel real quick and in about 5 or so seconds the game unfreezes for another five minutes or so...maybe not even 5 minutes and then continues to act up again

 

[codeypalmer]

ok and now heaven benchmark has crashed... maybe that helps someone break down whats going on. No overclock on gpu

 

[Phaaze88]

What kind of 750w psu is it?
Have you tried running those same clocks with more voltage? 1.3v, still crashes?
Is the memory even supported by the motherboard? Check the board manufacturer's QVL(qualified vendor list).
Run memtest.

 

[codeypalmer]

What kind of 750w psu is it?
Have you tried running those same clocks with more voltage? 1.3v, still crashes?
Is the memory even supported by the motherboard? Check the board manufacturer's QVL(qualified vendor list).
Run memtest.

yes ive had this setup for awhile (3+months) corsair 750w psu and memory is supported thats not the issue. On BF1 when it crashed it mentioned something about drivers so i reverted to the last one i had and four others with no luck. I wanna assume this is software and not hardware but who knows

 

[MegaBuns516]

I have an i7 8700k and I can tell you that you need more voltage. Try 1.26 and work your way down and using the setting before it crashes. I have my i7 8700k at 4.7 at 1.26 VCORE and it's considered normal. I don't anyone has an 8700k that works that well.

 

[Phaaze88]

It depends. Everyone's chip behaves a little differently.
Is everything on the same hard drive? Check drive health by doing a '/run', then type 'wmic', and hit enter. After that, type 'diskdrive get status' and hit enter.

 

[codeypalmer]

I have an i7 8700k and I can tell you that you need more voltage. Try 1.26 and work your way down and using the setting before it crashes. I have my i7 8700k at 4.7 at 1.26 VCORE and it's considered normal. I don't anyone has an 8700k that works that well.

...its a 4.6 ghz overclock not a 4.7 or 4.8. ive had this setup for 3 plus months and ran prime 95 for 14 hours.ive also tried higher voltages and lower clocks with no luck. Heaven benchmark crashed though.So i think that might be leading to something although it took longer then it does for games.

 

[codeypalmer]

It depends. Everyone's chip behaves a little differently.
Is everything on the same hard drive? Check drive health by doing a '/run', then type 'wmic', and hit enter. After that, type 'diskdrive get status' and hit enter.

Status
OK
OK
OK

This is what i got

 

[Phaaze88]

So drives are good.
Doesn't look like this was asked yet, but have you tried running/testing the cpu at stock settings?
Still crashes? If so, you may need to take it out and check for a bent pin(s). They can be straightened out with tweezers.
If it's broken off, you're outta luck.

 

[codeypalmer]

So drives are good.
Doesn't look like this was asked yet, but have you tried running/testing the cpu at stock settings?
Still crashes? If so, you may need to take it out and check for a bent pin(s). They can be straightened out with tweezers.
If it's broken off, you're outta luck.

Ok but do you think itd be able to run on 14 hours of prime 95 with a bent pin but not be able to run rocket league for 5 minutes. Sometimes the games freeze and then unfreeze or freeze till theyre crashed. Heaven benchmark did crash though after 20 minutes with as you know is not a cpu stress test

 

[Phaaze88]

But do you still experience crashes at stock settings?
Did you try running memtest?

Also, what kind of 1080ti? Is it the one of the gigabyte models?

 

[codeypalmer]

No i didnt run the mem test. This computer was working fine and out of nowhere started acting up. The memory is not the issue. Its an evga gpu that ive had for five plus months showing zero signs of issues unless its somehow thee reason for random crashes. Still crashing at stock though. Im going to replace the cablemod 8+6 pin gpu cables and put on the original psu cables and see if that works

 

[codeypalmer]

But do you still experience crashes at stock settings?
Did you try running memtest?

Also, what kind of 1080ti? Is it the one of the gigabyte models?

replacing the pcie cables didnt do anything. Games are still freezing. By the way can i add once more this is not a new system. There is no compatibility issues here

 

[Phaaze88]

Parts do degrade over time. Those tests are still relevant. A stick can go bad, or even the slot it's in can fail. It's why I asked about the hard drives, but they checked out ok. Maybe I'm going backwards by trying to identify hardware issues.
Did you have an AMD gpu before the 1080ti?

 

[MegaBuns516]

Did you try adding more voltage yet? I know my OC is at 4.7 and yours is at 4.6 but it doesn’t make a .6 VCORE difference. Raise your voltage.

 

[Phaaze88]

Did you try adding more voltage yet? I know my OC is at 4.7 and yours is at 4.6 but it doesn’t make a .6 VCORE difference. Raise your voltage.

MegaBuns516, it's not going to matter if the OP is crashing even with cpu and gpu at stock settings. They already answered this.

 

[codeypalmer]

Did you try adding more voltage yet? I know my OC is at 4.7 and yours is at 4.6 but it doesn’t make a .6 VCORE difference. Raise your voltage.

i tried stock voltages my man. I dont need the obvious solutions unfortunately. I need something that isnt quite so obvious considering i cant find out the problem at all

 

[codeypalmer]

Did you try adding more voltage yet? I know my OC is at 4.7 and yours is at 4.6 but it doesn’t make a .6 VCORE difference. Raise your voltage.

MegaBuns516, it's not going to matter if the OP is crashing even with cpu and gpu at stock settings. They already answered this.

Thank you. Also im going to be trying to swap out the gpus for a 1070 to see if that somehow solves my problem. Let me add one more time that everything appears to be working fine but only once ive been in a game for 5+ minutes that problems occur.

 

[Phaaze88]

You've:
-reinstalled windows(10?) and running with the bare essential drivers, chipset, etcs
-uninstalled old graphics drivers(ddu is good for this), reinstalled latest
-cpu and gpu temps are fine
-cpu passed 12h of prime 95, but system still crashes after a few minutes into any kind of load - overclock or not
-gpu now crashes on heaven when it didn't before
-hard drives are ok

Please run memtest. That's like the only piece of hardware not tested besides the power supply. After that, then it's down to software... but since you've already reinstalled windows(10?) and are running just the bare essential drivers, I doubt it's software related.

 

[codeypalmer]

Did you try adding more voltage yet? I know my OC is at 4.7 and yours is at 4.6 but it doesn’t make a .6 VCORE difference. Raise your voltage.

MegaBuns516, it's not going to matter if the OP is crashing even with cpu and gpu at stock settings. They already answered this.

I have bad news 🙁 My evga gtx 1080ti black edition was swapped out for rog strix 1070 and now my game isnt freezing... So bittersweet. I want my games to run but i want my 1080ti to work as well. Do you think evga will replace mine?

 

[Phaaze88]

If it's still under warranty, you should be able to RMA it...

 

[codeypalmer]

You've:
-reinstalled windows(10?) and running with the bare essential drivers, chipset, etcs
-uninstalled old graphics drivers(ddu is good for this), reinstalled latest
-cpu and gpu temps are fine
-cpu passed 12h of prime 95, but system still crashes after a few minutes into any kind of load - overclock or not
-gpu now crashes on heaven when it didn't before
-hard drives are ok

Please run memtest. That's like the only piece of hardware not tested besides the power supply. After that, then it's down to software... but since you've already reinstalled windows(10?) and are running just the bare essential drivers, I doubt it's software related.

Thanks for your replies and all your help! I just saw this and yeah its the gpu... It sucks because i dont know how it happened and products are so durable nowadays im just not sure what couldve happened. Fortunately they were very cooperative and ill be sending in my gpu and getting a replacement . Still upset though. Never had a single product go bad on me

 

[Phaaze88]

It happens. You just happened to draw the short stick this time around.