So I built my own computer around last December of 2013 and have been using it frequently since then. It's pretty good and fast and I've been enjoying it but I have been having some problems with many different games. In a wide variety of games I've had frequent issues where the game will freeze for a moment then crash. I get the error message "AMD drivers have stopped responding and recovered succesfully". , and I then I need to restart the game. I looked up the issue and I found this thread that described it as a TDR issue:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/737-27116RadeonSeries-ATIKMDAGhasstoppedrespondingerrormessages.aspx
So I looked through all of the possible causes and tried them all. (updating graphics and motherboard drivers, redownloading microsoft direct x, etc etc) but none of these fixed my issues and I still got constant crashes with the same message.
However one of the possible causes was overheated cpu and I have noticed when I open the BIOS that my cpu is around 50 C when idle and I don't really know what it is under full load but I assume its higher. I'm pretty sure that this may be the reason for the crashes and I wanted to ask for help on what I can do to fix this.
So anyway I geuss I should give you some description on what I have:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K GPU: Radeon R9 280x
And I am using the stock heatsink that came with my cpu. I dont know if you need to know anything else. Anyway I'm not sure if what I should do is try to apply thermal paste to the heatsink or if I should buy a liquid cpu cooler or what and I need some advice. And by the way my computer is not currently overclocked.
Thanks for any advice
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/737-27116RadeonSeries-ATIKMDAGhasstoppedrespondingerrormessages.aspx
So I looked through all of the possible causes and tried them all. (updating graphics and motherboard drivers, redownloading microsoft direct x, etc etc) but none of these fixed my issues and I still got constant crashes with the same message.
However one of the possible causes was overheated cpu and I have noticed when I open the BIOS that my cpu is around 50 C when idle and I don't really know what it is under full load but I assume its higher. I'm pretty sure that this may be the reason for the crashes and I wanted to ask for help on what I can do to fix this.
So anyway I geuss I should give you some description on what I have:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K GPU: Radeon R9 280x
And I am using the stock heatsink that came with my cpu. I dont know if you need to know anything else. Anyway I'm not sure if what I should do is try to apply thermal paste to the heatsink or if I should buy a liquid cpu cooler or what and I need some advice. And by the way my computer is not currently overclocked.
Thanks for any advice
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