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Hi everyone, i upgraded my gpu from a radeon hd7770 2gb to an MSI R9270x 2gb Gaming

But i have encountered numerous BSOD on BF4 and random crashes just recently on payday 2.
Payday 2 was running fine earlier but then started black screening, i could still hear skype calls but i couldnt do anything else.

I have tried a driver sweep and installed AMD 14.7 beta driver, but to no prevail.
Got a feeling it could be my not so decent PSU.

Any tips ?

My Specs :
PSU: OCZ Core X Stream 500w
GPU: MSI R9270x 2gb Gaming
CPU: AMD FX 8320 3.50 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
OS: Windows 7 64bit
MB: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M LX V2 Rev X.0x
Case: AvP Wolverine Blue MIDI Tower Inverted ATX USB3.0/2.0
 
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In spite of what the shop may have said about that PSU, it is a rather low quality unit with only 2 x 18A +12V rails. Adequate, but only marginally. More along the lines of a strong 350W PSU.

Did you uninstall the AMD driver before installing the new card? It sometimes is best to do that even though the cards are both AMD. In fact, you may want to uninstall the driver, run Driver Sweeper from safe mode, have it remove any remnants of AMD (and Nvidia) gfx drivers it finds, and then re-boot and install the newest driver from the AMD website.
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4266-driver-sweeper.html
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Then I'd suggest running CCleaner to clean up registry errors, junk files, resource wasting crap...
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At the shop where I got the card they said it would be good enough, it ran the games fine earlier when I under clocked the card through ccc for abit. Do you think it's the psu causing the problems ?
 
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In spite of what the shop may have said about that PSU, it is a rather low quality unit with only 2 x 18A +12V rails. Adequate, but only marginally. More along the lines of a strong 350W PSU.

Did you uninstall the AMD driver before installing the new card? It sometimes is best to do that even though the cards are both AMD. In fact, you may want to uninstall the driver, run Driver Sweeper from safe mode, have it remove any remnants of AMD (and Nvidia) gfx drivers it finds, and then re-boot and install the newest driver from the AMD website.
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4266-driver-sweeper.html
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Then I'd suggest running CCleaner to clean up registry errors, junk files, resource wasting crap, and other stuff that can cause software conflicts. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

If the above doesn't solve the issue, you may have a bad card.
 
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Jordan260

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Right I'm gunna get a new PSU been eyeing up this one http://www.3bsystems.co.uk/thermaltake-smart-se-730w-80-bronze-certified-modular-psu-14cm-fan-atx23-apfc-p-13412.html

Is that a good psu ? I will be upgrading further around October with an SSD and more ram hence the extra power
 
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I have already bought the thermaltake. Wired it all up and the screen showed what looked like dead pixels everywhere then just died, so I restarted and got nothing. Plugged in my old GPU and everything worked fine, so I think I had a dodgy card, that has gone back to the shop and I should hopefully have a replacement tomorrow.
 
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