GTX 1080 Crashing

[rmdumont]

Hello everyone and thank you so much for your input as this has been extremely frustrating. So first let me give you the specs on my PC:

GRAPHICS CARD
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Vendor EVGA Corporation# of cards 1SLI / CrossFireOffMemory 8,192 MB Core clock 1,607 MHz Memory bus clock 1,251 MHz Driver version 21.21.13.7849Driver status FM Approved
PROCESSOR
Processor Intel Core i7-4790K Reported stock core clock 4,000 MHz Maximum turbo core clock ,397 MHz Physical / logical processors 1 / 8# of cores 4PackageLGA1150Manufacturing process 22 nm TDP88 W
GENERAL
Operating system 64-bit Windows 10 (10.0.14393)Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1Memory32,768 MBModule 18,192 MB G.Skill DDR3 @ 1,332 MHzModule 28,192 MB G.Skill DDR3 @ 1,332 MHzModule 38,192 MB G.Skill DDR3 @ 1,332 MHzModule 48,192 MB G.Skill DDR3 @ 1,332 MHzHard drive model250 GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

I'm sure that most of this information is not needed but i hope it makes it easier to figure out whats going on if anything. So built my own PC awhile back, mostly for gaming, and had no issues whatsoever. Started with a GTX 980... no issues. Upgraded to a GTX 980Ti... no issues. Upgraded to a GTX 1080 FTW.. games crashing when running at 4K! And these are the same games i had no issues running 4K with the 980Ti so my first thoughts were to RMA and replace the card. Now i have the replacement GPU in, still the 1080 FTW edition, and the entire PC will do a hard crash when 4K gaming. The pattern is random though.. could be 20 minutes, could be a few hours. I've been troubleshooting this for awhile so i've clean installed all the drivers etc. and while most threads suggest this could be a power supply issue, i have a Corsair 750W power supply so i feel that should be more than enough. Anyways, if anyone has any thoughts whatsoever as to whats going on i would be incredibly grateful.

 

[The_Staplergun]

I had issues with stability and crashing but I RMAd mine and the new one worked just fine. Have you tried that?

Without that, are you using any monitoring or OC software?

 

[rmdumont]

I RMAd the first card and now i'm having the same issues with the replacement so at that point i just assumed the problem lied elsewhere. I am not using any monitoring software and i don't OC the card "assuming that i have to be the one to do it" but i did just get done reading a similar thread indicating that may be the issue. I do have Precision XOC software installed and used it in the past to monitor temps, which ended up being fine so i just didn't mess with it afraid i would do more harm than good as i'm not knowledgeable in terms of OC and didn't want to mess with the settings.

 

[rmdumont]

Another thing... I am using a samsung 40" 4K TV as my monitor if that could be an issue.

 

[The_Staplergun]

Does it crash if you use the MOBO display output instead of the card?

 

[rmdumont]

I've honestly never tried that before... but I have to be honest here... I don't run into these issues when running 1440 (2k)... so is a single 1080 just not enough to do 4K gaming? I'm new at this so I disable AA and turn down hair works if it's applicable but for the most part everything is turned up... the issue I'm having a hard time understanding is if the GPU couldn't handle it, then I would see something different then an entire system crash correct? Again... thanks for your help I really do appreciate it... I am a fast learner so if you think there's information that could benefit me I will learn it instead of relying on this thread... I.e. Read a similar thread where there was talk about dynamic and thermal throttling and base clock... all of which is beyond me to be honest... but if the solution could be in that realm I will do my research...Is there any type of program I could get that would tell me why the system crashes at that point? As I said before... I would just turn things down to 2k and be ok with it.. but we're taking about games like skyrim.. that ran fine at 4K with a 980.. so to have these issues with a much better card is just annoying to say the least.... thank you again for all your help

 

[The_Staplergun]

No your card should be able to take anything you can throw at it as far as modern games or near future games.
I was playing total war Warhammer last night at 4k just fine on mostly ultra with a decent framerate and no issues.

Try MSI afterburner and see if the card has a built in overclock. Your base clock should be 1607 and the boost clock should go up to 1700something. If it's higher than this you could try making it go down to 1607 and seeing if that works.