Your wasting all your time for nothing. It's the freaken card I'm telling you. I haven't had a problem with my new MSI 1070 gamming z. I had all the problems you are having. Listen too me.
I never had any problems with my computer for years and it has been over clocked at 4.5 ghz then it all started after first EVGA card 1070 FTW.  I think it has to do with the heat issue causing the card to crash. Even with the new thermal pads you are still going to have that same issue. Better move on.

alhazen
Your wasting all your time for nothing. It's the freaken card I'm telling you. I haven't had a problem with my new MSI 1070 gamming z. I had all the problems you are having. Listen too me.
I never had any problems with my computer for years and it has been over clocked at 4.5 ghz then it all started after first EVGA card 1070 FTW.  I think it has to do with the heat issue causing the card to crash. Even with the new thermal pads you are still going to have that same issue. Better move on

I know what you mean. It's a real bummer to spend nearly 500 euros on a video card and have this many problems with it but it's not like I have the money to just buy another card right now and I doubt I'll get a refund either.
That being said I don't actually know what exactly the cause of the problem is and I'm not willing to just blame it on the GPU just yet.
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I ran an overnight x264 stress test. Kind of screwed up the first 2 hours because I forgot about the fact that my PC is set to shut down after being idle for 2 hours but once I disabled that I let it run until almost noon the today day without any issues.
 
 

Loop 40: 11:37:26.13
encoded 2121 frames, 3.16 fps, 36016.71 kb/s

 
 
I think I'm going to do a RealBench stability test as well and if that also comes out fine I'm going to start moving away from suspecting the CPU is or its clock is at fault here.
 
 
 
Update:
 
I might have found something. When running RealBench Stress Test for 15 minutes I get a few isntances where the screen goes black but otherwise the PC makes it through the test.
But when I run the test for 30 minutes I hit the problem I've been encountering, albeit without the BSoD. The display driver crashes and recovers and Luxmark64 stops working, stopping the Stress Test.
If anyone knows what this could mean, I'm very interested in finding out!

Were you running the stress test with the cpu at stock clocks or overclocked?

Sajin
Were you running the stress test with the cpu at stock clocks or overclocked?

OC'd. Not a whole lot of point in stress testing the CPU at stock clocks right?
Although if nobody knows what the results of the RealBench tests can mean I think I'm going to run it again at stock clocks to see if it still fails the test. If it does then the cause of the crashes are going to be very likely unrelated to the CPU itself.
 
 
UPDATE:
After reading online that I shouldn't run the Realbench stress test with a program like EVGA Precision or Afterburner active I decided to give that a try.
... I passed the 30 minutes test without any problems at all.

 
Now I really don't know what to think anymore.
 
UPDATE 2:
I just ran the test again with Afterburner on and it passed again. I think I'm just going to try a few other tests and see what turns up on those.
 

All of this sounds like a unstable overclock. Could be your cpu or could be the factory overclock on the gpu. I'd suggest you start trying some of my suggestions so we can figure this out.

I ran the Aida64 stability test for a few hours while I was away today and these are the results: http://imgur.com/a/oDm2a
Notice any problems or issues here? (Temps, stability, etc.) It looks pretty OK to me.
 
I haven't touched the clocks of the GPU at all so if this GTX 1070 FTW can't even handle the clocks it shipped with that would be a hugely disappointing result.
Let me know what you think of the Aida64 test results.
 
I currently have everything reverted to stock settings and I'm about to run the entire battery of tests again.

Results look fine. Temps may be a little high for some people.

Sajin
Results look fine. Temps may be a little high for some people.

That's basically why I went down from 4.5GHz to 4.2GHz. Not looking forward to having to redo the entire overclocking and stability process again in the near future...
 
So far I've already had my browser crash on me once since reverting to stock clocks while watching multiple videos. No display driver crash or BSoD though, just the pages going black/looking messed up and Firefox basically getting stuck.

DrPhD
So far I've already had my browser crash on me once since reverting to stock clocks while watching multiple videos. No display driver crash or BSoD though, just the pages going black/looking messed up and Firefox basically getting stuck.

Good to hear. Try another browser for your current problem.

WELL.
 
Everything seems to have gone from bad to way worse. Since resetting the CPU clocks my PC boots up extremely slowly/sluggishly and I am now also getting a constant USB device being connected/disconnected sound. I also get the "USB Device Not Recognised" pop-up but when I click on it I just get an empty window. When I go to device manager the window constantly refreshes and I do not see device with a problem anywhere.
I've already tried disconnecting every USB device connected to my PC one by one but none of them have any effect on the issues.