Is this possible..my BSOD caused by nvidia?

[morgon]

Since I've had my pc I've struggled to run it in turbo mode (AMD 9590) without getting BSOD with no main reason apart from maybe my psu isn't upto it.

I've since rolled back to a older gpu driver and games have been much better and no BSOD when running cpu on turbo mode.

Is this possible that the gpu driver was masking itself as being the issue all this time and making me think it was just the cpu being run too high?

My main reason for the gpu driver change was due to an annoying stutter on xplane so I rolled back to the last best driver with open gl for my card (evga gtx 770 4gb) all games play fine and have lost any stutters that looked like bottle necking but running games on low or high made no difference on the previous last 2 drivers from nvidia.

 

[olafgarten]

What was the message on the BSOD? Also, what OS are you running, and which driver versions.

 

[johnbl]

depends on the bugcheck code and the info contained in the memory dump.
A graphics card that does not get enough power will cause the voltage to the CPU to drop two low and the CPU will get errors in its cache memory inside the CPU, the memory controller detects the errors and tells the CPU which shutsdown windows via bugcheck. if the CPU voltage to the reset pin drops too low the CPU will reset as it is designed to.

Since I've had my pc I've struggled to run it in turbo mode (AMD 9590) without getting BSOD with no main reason apart from maybe my psu isn't upto it.

I've since rolled back to a older gpu driver and games have been much better and no BSOD when running cpu on turbo mode.

Is this possible that the gpu driver was masking itself as being the issue all this time and making me think it was just the cpu being run too high?

My main reason for the gpu driver change was due to an annoying stutter on xplane so I rolled back to the last best driver with open gl for my card (evga gtx 770 4gb) all games play fine and have lost any stutters that looked like bottle necking but running games on low or high made no difference on the previous last 2 drivers from nvidia.