I'm not sure if this will help or not, but I was getting black screens where the sound continues while playing Skyrim Special Edition before I switched the power mode from the new drivers default of Optimal Power back over to the older driver series default of Adaptive. Prefer maximum performance would probably work as well, but would use more energy as the GPU would spool up even for the smallest task.
My 1080 also runs very cool under an AIO cooler - 39C or under, even overclocked and at 4K res.
For me my computer goes to a black screen, with the sound continuing to play, after a random period of time - usually longer than a half hour, and sometimes as much as two hours. Control Alt Delete doesn't do anything, unless I unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in - then I could see the Control Alt Delete screen. The same trick doesn't bring the game back when I try doing that instead of Control Alt Delete. Doing the below steps seems to have fixed the black screen issue for me, so I can only guess that it has something to do with the cards very advanced power states and them changing during gameplay.
1. Open up the Nvidia Control Panel (NVCP)
2. Under 3D Settings on the left side, select "Manage 3D Settings"
3. Under Power Management Mode, change it from "Optimal Power" over to "Adaptive" (which used to be the default with older drivers)
4. On the bottom right of the NVCP click the box marked "Apply"
5. Play your games and hopefully without those random danged black screens!
For reference, I'm running Win10 Pro x64 AE, and a 1080 ACX 3.0 with 375.70 drivers. And unfortunately I don't play Forza 3 or LoL, but I've put in God knows how many hours of Skyrim SE in the past week.