Nvidia laptop GPU crashing, possible clock speed mismatch???

ZeroMat

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Jul 28, 2016
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My Nvidia GTX 860M works okay for a bit on my laptop, but after some playtime it always crashes and recovers, and gives a popup on the bottom right. Eventually it gets stuck in a loop of crashing and recovering to the point I have to force shut down the laptop by holding the power button.

I've looked all over for solutions, tried everything I could find including removing all drivers and installing new, installing old archived versions, adding TdrDelay with regedit etc etc. I then found this thread. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2227490/nvidia-driver-crashing-recovering.html#14288771

I can see through task manager that my memory clock speed is 1600mhz, and with nvidia control panel I see my graphics card clock speed is 5010 mhz. I read somewhere that GDDR5 is 4X the actual base clock, meaning the base speed should be 1252.5? That seems off to me, so correct me if I'm wrong. Dxdiag shows 2GB of dedicated ram and 8GB shared. The previous link mentions that when the 2GB is used up and the GPU goes to borrow system RAM, the clock speeds don't match causing a crash.

I don't know how to match the clock speeds up or if that is the actual cause of the problem or not. Any help is appreciated.

DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/bSDdck03

Nvidia Control Panel System Information saved Log:
NVIDIA System Information report created on: 07/28/2016 19:05:38
System name: MATGAMINGLAPTOP

[Display]
Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
DirectX version: 12.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 860M
Driver version: 368.81
Direct3D API version: 12
Direct3D feature level: 11_0
CUDA Cores: 640
Core clock: 540 MHz
Memory data rate: 5010 MHz
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 80.16 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 10200 MB
Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 8152 MB
Video BIOS version: 82.07.27.00.06
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3
Device Id: 10DE 1392 11141462
Part Number: 2704 0010

[Components]

NvUpdtr.dll 2.11.4.0 NVIDIA Update Components
NvUpdt.dll 2.11.4.0 NVIDIA Update Components
NvGFTrayPluginr.dll 2.11.4.0 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
NvGFTrayPlugin.dll 2.11.4.0 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
nvui.dll 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdsync.exe 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.950.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 8.1.950.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA Video Server
nvDispSR.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA Display Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.13.6881 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA Display Server
PhysX 09.16.0318 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA CUDA 8.0.0 driver
nvGameSR.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 6.14.13.6881 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
 
Some additional info. The crash happens for pretty much every game I try and play, eventually. Not always on the same time frame. Whether its full screen or windowed, it happens. When I go into device manager and disable the 860M, the intel HD graphics took over and never ever crash. Problem is I can't play rocket league and a few others on only intel HD graphics.

Laptop is a cyberpower I bought a few years ago. GPU appears to be MSI and overclocked.