Constant game crashes and screen flickering relation to display driver

[BW1223]

I've been having an issue the past couple of week where I get errors relating to graphics card/drivers that have made playing impossible. These crashes occur between 5 minutes to few hours of gameplay. Have had screen flickers with event viewer error on desktop while only browsing chrome.


System Specs:

M.2 NVME 970 EVO Plus 1TB w/ OS install

M.2 NVME Intel 665p 1TB

AMD 5600x CPU
MSI RTX 3070 x2 OC (Manufacture OC)
Corsair vengeance 2x8gb 3600mhz
ASUS ROG Strix B550 Gaming wifi motherboard
Corsair 650 watt gold modular power supply
ICue commander pro to control fans/aio pump


Errors:

Destiny 2:




Apex Legends:





Valorant:



Event viewer after Valorant crashing:











Past Issues:

-Replaced x570 gigabyte aorus elite wifi w/ new OS install
-Removed 2 RAM sticks after error in Memory Diagnostics w/ new OS install

-Used to have BSODs, believed to be due to memory sticks and haven't had any since removal of bad RAM

Attempted Fixes:

-/sfc scan, scanhealth, healthrestore

-SFC scan came back with errors and repaired after first run, ran twice more to ensure repairs

-Scanhealth came back with no errors

-Uninstalled graphics driver with DDU, let windows install basic display driver

-Uninstalled graphics driver with DDU, reinstalled latest version from nvidia website

-Uninstalled graphics driver with DDU, reinstalled latest version before 461.72

-Uninstalled armorycrate with armorycrate uninstaller

-Uninstalled ICUE

-Scanned for viruses, none found

-Ran system maintenance trouble shooter, no errors

-Underclocked GPU by 100mhz through MSI after burner

-Error check drives through properties, none found
-Updated to latest bios 2006

-Ensured DirectX 12 was running

-Clean boot through system configuration

-Edited registery value TdrLevel (Qword) to 0, 8, and 20

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