Hi, I don't know if it's driver, Hardware or MSI AB related so i decided to post it here. I'm having a random crashes in game with AB turned on on my system (Overwatch rendering device lost, black ops 3 once every couple of days crashing). Windows 10 pro, Latest AB, Latest NVIDIA Driver. F3P BIOS from gigabyte (rest of my specs listed on my profile). The crashes occur when i raise my TDP to 150% but with no voltage adjustments yet (Overwatch crashing either with TDP 150% or stock while AB is running. Tried to raise the voltage to 100% to check for stability, same thing. The temps are fine as i use EK waterblock on the GPU. Keeping the GPU at stock clocks and only raising TDP to 150% for now and still OW will crash and black ops 3 can have random crashes every couple of days (driver stopped working and was recovered error in windows event viewer).
What clocks are you reaching with OC? Seems you might simply have Lost the silicon lottery. My 1080Ti is perfectly stable, however just DARE I try to push it past 2037mhz, instant crash fest, below that rock solid, while my 1080 used to go past 2150mhz.
I have the same GPU, except its the Waterforce WB edition. My max core clock stable is 2088Mhz but 100+ in voltage, max temp 38°C, if the temp go up like 45°C i have a crash so... https://www.3dmark.com/fsst/675010
For now, I'm not using any OC above what comes with the card so all the times i'm around 2000 Mhz when TDP is 150%. Oerwatch will crash no matter what the settings is and will only work when AB is not running. Black ops 3 started to crash not long ago so might be a driver issue? (same settings just TDP and never crashed). But anyway when i push to 2025 mhz and above games crashing instantly or after 30-50 seconds.
Try barebones driver installation with pre-cleaning by DDU. Use stock voltages, and check memory OC (perhaps even underclock it by 5% or smt) Test it out then. If it crashes with Stock clocks/ settings / voltage, then you can RMA it, if it starts crashing After you apply any kind of OC, means you simply got very unlucky with silicon lottery.
Wiped AB and driver with DDU, Fresh installed and tested with this settings: So far, 2038 Mhz on 1.31V black ops 3 and ROTTR Didn't crashed. Will put 3DMark stress test soon and heaven to measure how much headroom i have.
