"Graphics card has stopped responding and recovered" After 2 Clean wipes and different drivers

prestiton

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Since Watch dogs came out, I have had always at least one problem with my graphics card. When I fix the problem another comes up and I am now stuck. I have the latest driver installed, no overclocking and my registry has been cleaned and after 1 failed clean wipe I still had issues so decided to format my harddrive and then do a clean wipe and reinstall Windows. I have just finished installing everything again like steam and my driver and a few games and I went on my game and straight away after a few seconds of gameplay my screen freezes with the sound still playing and then it continues again and continues to keep doing it so I still have an issue i've been having problems with my pc for nearly 2 weeks now someone please help me!
My specs:
intel core i3-2120 CPU @3.30GHz
8GB Ram
Radeon 7700 series
 

prestiton

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Jun 5, 2014
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Is msi Afterburner a program I need to download and what PSU do you recommend?
 
uninstall graphics drivers. turn off auto driver updates/shut down window updates...... ( i assume after reformat you went there and got all the goodies???? )

shut down and reboot. let windows find card. reinstall graphics driver but do an advance/custom install........ only install the graphics driver. nothing else............... also, did you try not running with mantle?