BSOD on new X99X install

A quick Google search and this is the best I've found concerning GTX 780 temps.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6973/nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-review/19

Interesting snippet from the above page:

With GPU Boost 2.0, load temperatures are kept tightly in check when gaming. The GTX 780?�s default throttle point is 80C, and that?�s exactly what happens here, with GTX 780 bouncing around that number while shifting between its two highest boost bins. Note that like Titan however this means it?�s quite a bit warmer than the open air cooled 7970GE, so it will be interesting to see if semi-custom GTX 780 cards change this picture at all.

Edited by wardog - 06 Jan 2016 at 6:22am

No, bottlenecking will not cause the GPU to alter it's clocks in any way. The bottleneck occurs when the GPU is starved for data by an inadequate CPU or PCIe bandwidth, this results in stutter and spike behavior. Until fairly recently reviews did not even test for this. Quite often you will see a higher average FPS and a stupidly high maximum FPS when a bottleneck is present but the minimum FPS will be very low and occur frequently. The result, despite the highish average will be very choppy gameplay with loads of stutter. The high FPS spikes will occur immediately after a stall as the CPU suddenly dumps a load of frame data onto the GPU which up till that moment was idling waiting for data. I suppose depending on how long the GPU was starved for data it may briefly lower it's clocks a performance level but it would be for no more than a second or so, not enough to significantly affect thermals.

I think I will try a CPU-reseat.  The cooler is that Noctua D16 and is bigger and heaver than any I have ever used.  On the question of other errors - no - there has not been a single hiccup on video errors or anything else.  The installs have been clean and error-free, especially since I have done three separate clean Windows 10 pro installs on this system.  

Update: 

Wardog,