Is my GPU or PSU dying?

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#1 Huff
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System specs...

i5 2500k

8gb ram

windows 7

GTX 570 SC

corsair tx750 psu

Here's what's happening. Under load, the gpu is shutting off. The computer keeps running, but the gpu shuts off. Then I restart and get a boot loop. When I play crysis and warhead, it will run for about a minute and then freeze and I have to restart the computer. The strange thing is that I ran occt for an hour with no errors. After a few game freezes I try to run it again, the gpu shuts off. Then goes into a boot loop. I restart again, and it works fine. Any suggestions? I've got afterburner running, the gpu has never been over 68 under load. I don't have another psu or gpu to put in and check it...

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#2 Bikouchu35
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Could be faulty gpu. Run 3dmark.

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#3 Huff
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Could be faulty gpu. Run 3dmark.

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3d mark is a toss up. Sometimes it runs, sometimes it crashes to desktop, sometimes the card shuts off and I have to reboot the pc.
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#4 ravenguard90
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It's the card. If it was the power supply at fault, it would usually shut down completely.

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#5 jtcraft
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Sounds like a gpu problem. Can you try it in a different PC, perhaps a friends? You could try downclocking the gpu to the vanilla 570 clock speeds. It could be that the gpu can't handle the factory overclock in which case I would RMA the card.
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#6 ken8659
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Have you tied different drivers ?

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#7 Huff
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Yep... I tried different drivers. I ran a PSU stress test for nearly an hour, everything worked fine. Also, I had msi afterburner running to monitor the card. Since the day I built the system the card has idled at 30-33c, 1 percent usage, and the wattage drops to .09xx when just sitting at windows desktop. Today, the card was reporting 42-45 @ idle but dropping to 0 for a second then coming back up, reporting 0 gpu usage, and the voltage was a constant 1.025. The voltage stayed that way until the computer finally froze at the desktop. I started the rma process on the card.