Possible Graphics Card Failure?

[neutrontwin]

I built myself a gaming pc in January and it has ran fine up until yesterday. I have been playing Assassin's Creed 4 since it came out Tuesday and, starting yesterday, the game will freeze and usually (not always) minimize to the desktop, where i have to use task manager to close it. I then tried playing Call of Duty: Ghosts, which has also worked fine since release, and the game froze and crashed (dialog popped up saying it stopped working). I should also mention that the audio kept playing every time this happens (5-15 minutes into gameplay). I downloaded hwmonitor to check my temps and the cpu never went above 60C and the gpu never went above 75C. I then downloaded EVGA OC Scanner X. I ran the PhysX gpu test on max performance and it froze after a few seconds and then crashed 2 minutes later. My drivers are all up to date. Nothing software-wise changed on my computer yesterday. If anyone could please help it would be greatly appreciated!

Specs:
i5-3570k
Evga gtx 660 sc
Corsair cx 600M psu
8gb DDR3 samsung 1600mhz ram (2 sticks)
Creative Sound Blaster Titanium HD
Corsair H60 Liquid cooling
1TB Caviar Black HDD
TP link pci-e wifi adapter
Gigabyte z77x-ud3h motherboard
Windows 8.1

 

[neutrontwin]

I built myself a gaming pc in January and it has ran fine up until yesterday. I have been playing Assassin's Creed 4 since it came out Tuesday and, starting yesterday, the game will freeze and usually (not always) minimize to the desktop, where i have to use task manager to close it. I then tried playing Call of Duty: Ghosts, which has also worked fine since release, and the game froze and crashed (dialog popped up saying it stopped working). I should also mention that the audio kept playing every time this happens (5-15 minutes into gameplay). I downloaded hwmonitor to check my temps and the cpu never went above 60C and the gpu never went above 75C. I then downloaded EVGA OC Scanner X. I ran the PhysX gpu test on max performance and it froze after a few seconds and then crashed 2 minutes later. My drivers are all up to date. Nothing software-wise changed on my computer yesterday. If anyone could please help it would be greatly appreciated!

Specs:
i5-3570k
Evga gtx 660 sc
Corsair cx 600M psu
8gb DDR3 samsung 1600mhz ram (2 sticks)
Creative Sound Blaster Titanium HD
Corsair H60 Liquid cooling
1TB Caviar Black HDD
TP link pci-e wifi adapter
Gigabyte z77x-ud3h motherboard
Windows 8.1

I keep trying to play and this keeps happening earlier every time

 

[UntoldAv3nGer]

Could be the new nVidia drivers :l

 

[neutrontwin]

Could be the new nVidia drivers :l

It started happening before I updated the drivers

 

[neutrontwin]

I just did a system restore to friday (before problem, before driver update) and the game froze in only 3 minutes. It seems to me like the problem is getting worse

 

[UntoldAv3nGer]

I would say it is possible graphics card failure, or the game is filling up your ram and crashes (maybe??). Try other games to see if it still happens.