this tip from EWBF has indirectly solved my problem. Add “–eexit 1” to your miner command switches and edit your existing batch file to make them a simple restart script as exampled below. If the miner crashes it will shut down forcing it to go back to the beginning of the batch and restart the miner.
it will auto throttle the card/power to keep it at or below 77c (or whatever you set it at), when used with overclocking get max performance without destroying your gpu
These things are for more intelligent then I ever gave them credit for. I have 2 friends that are getting into this strictly for the money, and the learning for me has been the real payout.