My setup: Z77 Extreme4 Mobo, I5-3570K CPU, ATI 7850 graphics card. PSU is rated for 520 watt antec eco.
Periodically (once every few hours), my graphics card driver will crash, but only if I'm playing games.
Most of the time it comes back up, but sometimes it causes the entire computer to BSOD. These issues started happening when i upgraded my old mobo/phenom4 to the new mobo/cpu combination. This led me to think there was something wrong with the software, so I formatted the main hdd, re-installed windows 8 (instead of win7), same problems. Eventually, I exchanged the mobo/cpu for a new set, and still have the same problem. I've kept my RAM/HDDs from the 'previous' computer.
I've tried every combination of booting into safe mode / using tools to un-reinstall graphics drivers/etc, and it keeps happening. I've tried overvolting, undervolting, overclocking, underclocking, nothing seems to make any effect.
A few oddities: I've tried overclocking the GPU and it will run for hours if its just doing computations, but as soon as I try to play games, it will exhibit this behavior.
Help!
Periodically (once every few hours), my graphics card driver will crash, but only if I'm playing games.
Most of the time it comes back up, but sometimes it causes the entire computer to BSOD. These issues started happening when i upgraded my old mobo/phenom4 to the new mobo/cpu combination. This led me to think there was something wrong with the software, so I formatted the main hdd, re-installed windows 8 (instead of win7), same problems. Eventually, I exchanged the mobo/cpu for a new set, and still have the same problem. I've kept my RAM/HDDs from the 'previous' computer.
I've tried every combination of booting into safe mode / using tools to un-reinstall graphics drivers/etc, and it keeps happening. I've tried overvolting, undervolting, overclocking, underclocking, nothing seems to make any effect.
A few oddities: I've tried overclocking the GPU and it will run for hours if its just doing computations, but as soon as I try to play games, it will exhibit this behavior.
Help!
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