Windows 10: Recent upgrade on motherboard and CPU, BSOD when under GPU load

Hi,

I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU to a Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard and an Intel Xeon 1231 v3. I use a Nvidia GTX 660 GPU, and recently my FPS in-game has been stuttering. When I checked my GPU load, I noticed it kept on dipping below the threshold that the game would use. For example, if the maximum load the game took was 80%, every 10 seconds or so the load would dip down to 20%, causing a stutter. This makes the games I play virtually unplayable.
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I was playing Tera, and this game IS known for it's optimization issues, but I had no problems in the past running this game with my previous motherboard. I recently got a BSOD and I'm hoping that it could lead me somewhere good. If anything, I might just RMA my motherboard and call it defective.

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Applications crashing unexpectedly

I have a fresh installation of Windows 10 Pro. The CPU, GPU, RAM and other stats are normal. CPU max 50% usage 6 cores 12 threads, GPU at 100% load when loading games, but at max 20% load in other apps. I have 16GB or RAM which is at about 60% load (9GB)
at most in any application. I've upgraded GPU almost exactly 1 year ago and I upgraded CPU, RAM and motherboard in the last 4 months. The oldest part (besides the case, which shouldn't matter on performance) is the mechanical hard drive, which is 4 years old
(I took it from my old PC). Windows is up to date and virus free. I built the PC myself and the last change I remember doing was upgrading my CPU, RAM and motherboard, which was the upgrade I mentioned. Everything was working fine for the 4 months I had it,
up until a few days before today. I do think it's the hard drive going, judging by my scenario.

 

CPU and GPU clock speeds drop under load

Sure sounds like an overheating issue. Temp rises instantly & shuts down speed then computer next usually.

Perhaps its time to take apart the computer and clean fan and vents & heat sink and use some fresh cpu heatsink compound.

 

Seems there have been 3 crashes, 2 were unable to produce a minidump
Please make sure your pc is configured for small dump files How to configure minidump | Windows 10 tutorial
Code: Event[4075]: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting Date: 2015-12-17T20:59:47.000 Event ID: 1005 Task: N/A Level: Error Opcode: N/A Keyword: Classic User: N/A User Name: N/A Computer: Timmy-PC Description: Unable to produce a minidump file from the full dump file.[/quote] Please uninstall everything of Nvidia using Display Driver Uninstaller and install new drivers from Nvidia. Be sure the clean install box is checked and only install the Graphics driver and the PhysX driver.
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Code: ffffd000`20486228 fffff800`ac91e7fdUnable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys nvlddmkm+0x18e7fd 5: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm start end module name fffff800`ac790000 fffff800`ad278000 nvlddmkm T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys Image name: nvlddmkm.sys Timestamp: Thu Jul 23 02:15:19 2015 (55B03217) CheckSum: 00AAF49B ImageSize: 00AE8000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4[/quote] According to the logs, you are using a 9800 GTX+
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Here is a more up-to-date scan of my system.

The reason why there was a GTX+ 9800 was because I switched over to it for stability reasons.

I have configured windows to create minidumps during crashes and I have uninstalled and reinstalled Nvidia drivers, clean installation, PhysX and Driver only. I have also updated my system specs a bit, but I'm not too sure what else you need from me.

Thanks, I will test it to see if it works or not. Will get back to you within 24 hours.

I also forgot to mention. There is a slight hum in my graphics card when it is under load. I believe it's the infamous coil whine.

 

When I need something, I will ask for it *Smile

You don't have to run the dm log collector when no crash has occured *Smile
At least, there is no log of another bluescreen.

 

Okay, so lately I haven't gotten a BSOD, but my graphics driver has been crashing. One time, major artifacting occurred and I had to completely restart my system.