PC Frequently crashes

[Azndude2190]

Especially during gaming. However, that in and of itself is not consistent. For example, the past few days, i've been able to play games hours on end with nothing happening, but yesterday I can't go 10 minutes in, without my computer completely shutting on me. This has been an issue for me since I bought the parts and assembled the PC about a month ago. Would this be a CPU/heatsink/thermal paste issue? I run my CPU at stock speeds with a aftermarket heat sink, so the temps are pretty low according to RealTemp. The thermal paste used was pre-applied to the cpu cooler I bought. And also, this crashing issue has happened to me suddenly, a few times, when the computer was pretty much at idle (I was surfing the web).

When it crashes, it use to attempt to reboot itself immediately, and I get the blue screen, however now, nothing. I have to reset the switch to my PSU to power on the computer again.

My PC parts:

i5 4670k
MSI Z-87 G55
Corsair H75 CPU cooler
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (2x4)
Corsair RM 750 PSU
MSI Twin Frozr GTX 780
Crucial M500 240GB SSD

 

[Ketchup]

There is a program called whocrashed that may tell you the driver that is causing the crash. I would download and give it a whirl.

Go ahead and give us some numbers for CPU and GPU.

The progressively worse aspect reminds me of what I have seen a bad stick of RAM do.

You can either run one stick at a time and see if the crashes stop, or run Memtest and see if it can find a spot it can't write to/read from.

 

[Charlie98]

The progressively worse aspect reminds me of what I have seen a bad stick of RAM do.

+1

The only other thing would be to make sure all the PSU power plugs are fully seated in the board sockets.

 

[Azndude2190]

There is a program called whocrashed that may tell you the driver that is causing the crash. I would download and give it a whirl.

Go ahead and give us some numbers for CPU and GPU.

The progressively worse aspect reminds me of what I have seen a bad stick of RAM do.

You can either run one stick at a time and see if the crashes stop, or run Memtest and see if it can find a spot it can't write to/read from.

I was able to install whocrashed, but it wasn't able to give me anything. My CPU temps (according to the BIOS) is 45 degree Celsius, GPU is 40

 

[Ketchup]

I was able to install whocrashed, but it wasn't able to give me anything. My CPU temps (according to the BIOS) is 45 degree Celsius, GPU is 40

OK, sounding more and more like RAM (you get a blue screen but can't get data off the stick to write a minidump) so probably time to start one of the RAM testing methods I mentioned above.