Sorry for the late reply (never got a notification you responded). All my memory tests passed, and temps maxed out at 168.8F. After doing some investigation I have noticed that cooling could possibly be a major factor here. I pulled my card out of my system, I started checking the screws for the GPU cooler and they was just finger tight not really applying pressure to the VRAM thermal pads or the actual chip itself. I pulled the cooler off and applied some new thermal paste and thermal pads for the VRAM and changed my fan curves. I did see some strange areas near the VRAM which could mean they may have overheated at some point (check image attached). I put the cooler back on and tightened it tighter than what it was. I did not have any crashes but temps was still fairly high. What my current assumption is since I never actually checked VRAM temps before I opend the ticket im going with they was possibly overheating, if i have any more crashes I will lower clocks for both. I have seen other articles saying that the card had a weak cooler as it is. Do you think this would be a valid assumption?
