PC Crashing When Executing a Demanding Game

[Caio_1]

(Not sure if this is the right category, point me to the right one if it's not)
Recently my PC has been crashing around 10 minutes in while executing a demanding game. Due to this problem I was forced to format my hard drive and reinstall Windows 10, but it still persists. There is no error message, the screen just freezes accompanied by buzz coming through the speakers. My drivers are all updated and so is my BIOS. Any help would be appreciated.

My specs:
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8350
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L LE (AM3R2)
Graphics
S22B300 (1920x1080@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (EVGA)
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00KUWA0 (SATA)
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-003CA0 (SATA)
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10A ATA Device
Audio
Dispositivo de High Definition Audio

 

[Viking2121]

Check temps, keep the CPU under 61c, Graphics card keep under 90c. Make sure no other temps are too high. You can download HWMonitor and it will tell ya every temp on your computer http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

You don't overclock do you?


I had a customer come in with the same board and a FX8350, his board kept freezing up, had to turn off turbo as the voltage increase for the turbo speeds overheated the VRM's, to do that, you have to go into the bios.

 

[EchohcE]

What kind of cooling do you have? Stock or aftermarket?

 

[Caio_1]

Check temps, keep the CPU under 61c, Graphics card keep under 90c. Make sure no other temps are too high. You can download HWMonitor and it will tell ya every temp on your computer http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

You don't overclock do you?


I had a customer come in with the same board and a FX8350, his board kept freezing up, had to turn off turbo as the voltage increase for the turbo speeds overheated the VRM's, to do that, you have to go into the bios.

When playing right before a crash my max temperatures were 70°C for GPU and 50ºC for CPU

I don't overclock

 

[Caio_1]

I have recently run some tests with MemTest86.
With all 4 of my memory modules connected (2gb each) the test reported several errors. When testing only pairs of memories at a time no error has been reported and I was able to play without a crash.

 

[EchohcE]

Sounds like you've got RAM issues then. So you're saying that when you test all 4 at a time, it throws errors, but neither pair by itself throws errors?

 

[Caio_1]

Yes, exactly. Altough I'm thinking it is a motherboard issue (maybe related with overheating?), because after showing errors when testing all 4 of them they were noticeably warmer than they were supposed to.

 

[EchohcE]

Remove two of them and test the gaming with just the single pairs. If the crashes stop, problem solved.

 

[Caio_1]

Yes, I already said that the game didn't crash with only a pair, but that cut my ram capacity by half. What I want to make sure now is that the problem is in the motherboard as I suspect so I can replace it, because if it is probably sooner or later it will crash when running with only a pair too.