PC crashing while gaming

[soilder198]

My pc was entirely fine and could handle hours of demanding gaming, until I started to overclock my GPU. At first, only certain games could run OC'd without crashing, such as Borderlands 2 and Battlefield 4. However, other games would always crash at a random point.

So I decided not to OC at all until I get my new rig, however, even with the OC'ing turned off, I now find that these games, which did not crash prior at all, are beginning to crash.

I have no idea what the problem is at all. It cannot be high power draw since these games worked fine prior and neither can it be overheating since once again they had been working before.

I'm really looking for some help here because I don't know what to do. I am positively OC'ing is absolutely turned off.

FYI my gpu is a gtx 660 and I have a 330w power brick. I've had this setup since December and it has been perfectly fine since then until I started to OC.

 

[nitrium]

You might just be one of the very few instances where you have damaged your GPU with OCing. It does happen.

 

[soilder198]

You might just be one of the very few instances where you have damaged your GPU with OCing. It does happen.

Is there anyway I can confirm this? The only game the crashing happens in is Guild Wars 2. Every other game works fine.

 

[nitrium]

You might just be one of the very few instances where you have damaged your GPU with OCing. It does happen.

Is there anyway I can confirm this? The only game the crashing happens in is Guild Wars 2. Every other game works fine.

That's not what you implied in your original post ("I now find that these games, which did not crash prior at all, are beginning to crash"). If it's just this ONE game, it could be any number of issues, including a corrupted game install, buggy GPU drivers (have you tried older/newer ones?), CPU crashing (it it OCed?), bad RAM, corrupted Windows install. If you want to doublecheck if it's really your GPU, try running something such as the Heaven benchmark on loop, or use GPU-Z's "Render Test" (click the tiny "?" by the Bus Interface field), which will load the GPU to near 100%.

 

[soilder198]

You're right, I didn't mean to imply that the games which were fine previously are now crashing, because they aren't.

I will try that GPU-Z test and see what I get.

There's no reason the problem should be anything but the gpu.