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- Jul 14, 2003
So actually this is for my little brother who is less PC savvy. I built the system he uses which is a Xeon E5-1650 6-core (basically same as i7-3930k) overclocked to a pretty safe 4ghz cooled by the EK Fluid Gaming A240 water cooling kit, has a Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 980ti, and 16gb Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 with an EVGA x79 SLI motherboard. He can be playing PUBG for a few minutes, or a few hours, but eventually this happens. What looks like a distorted BSOD but you can still sorta see the game in the bottom if you look closely, but the entire PC is locked up and a hard reboot is necessary to get back up and running. I've had him do clean driver re-installs, check for windows updates, re-install the game, verify the game files, etc. Nothing seems to help at the moment. Not using MSI afterburner at all (just the Gigabyte OC Genie software). No other game does this and he plays RB6: Siege, Overwatch, Titanfall 2, Battlerite, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and Paladins regularly. I'm not sure how to further advise him, anyone else have gone through anything like this or have any suggestions?
edit: apparently this is now happening on all games my brother plays within 30 minutes, and in less than 15 minutes if gaming + streaming. Hmmmmm
update: I turned his CPU OC off and put everything back to the BIOS optimized defaults, including the ram now running on "auto" at 1333mhz. He hasn't been home to test but i guess we'll see soon.
edit: apparently this is now happening on all games my brother plays within 30 minutes, and in less than 15 minutes if gaming + streaming. Hmmmmm
update: I turned his CPU OC off and put everything back to the BIOS optimized defaults, including the ram now running on "auto" at 1333mhz. He hasn't been home to test but i guess we'll see soon.
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