R9 270X Heating issue?

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I have a newly build computer (October) with the following specs:
R9 270X
MSI 970A-G46
Corsair CX 650
Fx-6300
My case has 3 fans equipped (the standard front intake and two rear exhaust) and the specific brand of my card is HIS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161442
Whenever i play a demanding game, i sometimes hear my fans kick up for a few seconds and my screen goes black and the audio goes in a fast loop (like its buzzing) and i have no choice but to hard reset. I am currently running 13.3 catalyst. The problem was much worse a week ago, uninstalling Overdrive helped alot. i also have MSI afterbutner installed and i set the temp curves for the fans. Could this be a hardware malfunction with the GPU or a software issue like drivers? (im hoping drivers)
 
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You need to watch the card's temp when that happens. If you don't have a 2nd monitor, that will be hard to do since the machine freezes up when it happens.

Have you got a lot of stuff running in the background when windows starts? Check your tray for stuff you can disable. And your System Config/Start Up for boxes you can uncheck. It may be a conflict with another prorgam. Then run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

There's also the possiblity you have a bad stick of RAM. You can run Memtest on each stick individually in the first DIMM slot for at least one FULL pass to see if it shows any errors. http://www.memtest.org/
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You need to watch the card's temp when that happens. If you don't have a 2nd monitor, that will be hard to do since the machine freezes up when it happens.

Have you got a lot of stuff running in the background when windows starts? Check your tray for stuff you can disable. And your System Config/Start Up for boxes you can uncheck. It may be a conflict with another prorgam. Then run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

There's also the possiblity you have a bad stick of RAM. You can run Memtest on each stick individually in the first DIMM slot for at least one FULL pass to see if it shows any errors. http://www.memtest.org/
 
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The only thing i run int the backround is steam, firefox and skype. Oh, and MSI afterburner ofc. I will get memtest going and try what you suggested. My temps vary from 78C (skyrim with enb and 2k textures) to 60 (BF4, Bioshock and ME3) Thoose arent the temps they crash at but thats when it seems like its crashing. I alt tabbed out while it was happening in Skyrim. Dont know if this helps but i also have 1 stick of 8gb ram.

 
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If you can verify that those temps are as hot as it gets when it freezes, it shouldn't be a temp issue. May be a defective card. If you have access to another card, try it to be sure it isn't the MB. Which fans speed up when this happens? gfx card? Case fans? CPPU fans?
 
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The GPU fan for sure. I do not have access to another card as this is my first build. I do know my motherboard has issues according to its reviews, but its mainly from people who want to slap an fx-8000+ series and a high end card. How would i check the MB for defects?
Update: CCleaner found a bunch of net framework errors.
 
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You may have a software issue causing it then. Let CCleaner fix the errors. Then run the Clean and Registry portion again and see if it finds anymore.
 
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CCleaner came up with more missing shared dlls for NET framework. i have discovered i cannot control my case fans speeds from BIOS. Is this because i put two fans on one connection then connected it to sys fan 1? my motherboard only has support fot two fans. RAM came up good
 
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If that board has 4 pin sys fan headers, they are probably PWM. You would have to have a 4 wire PWM fan for the BIOS to allow speed control.

Btw, it sounds like you have a lot of software issues. You may have found your problem. Keep running CCleaner until it comes up clean.
 
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I see, so i need to base my speed priority to one fan to the 4 pin aswell as it being a PWM fan. Thanks for the help and the speedy replies. i will test a game and see if it's fixed.
 
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