Red screen, weird sound, then crash. (R9 290X Crossfire)

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Etorpine

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Okay, this has only happened ONCE, but I'm a paranoid person. I was playing Metro Last Light and I died, I clicked the restart from last checkpoint and as soon as I did I got this red screen, a noise stutter and then my computer crashed and rebooted. I played for a solid hour and a half after, nothing happened. Metro doesn't seem to like overclocks (blackish artifacts) so I was playing with stock clocks, so I know overclocking wasn't an issue. I have a custom fan curve as well, even the reference card never jumps above 80C because I have a beast fan curve. I was also running a processor overclock (was lazy and used Intel Extreme Tuner) and I overvolted the CPU quite a bit (was running at 4.8Ghz a core, stock clock is 3.4, don't ask how that worked) and I lowered that a little after the crash figuring it could've shock blasted the PSU. My system draws like 1050W under full load and I have a 1250W PSU so I figured that MIGHT have been it.

Long story short, the reference card can be replaced by Dell if needed and the Tri-X is new enough to be RMA'd back to Newegg if needed. But it didn't crash again, and it didn't randomly crash, it crashed after I selected something.

Do I have something to worry about here? I've read up on this and the red screen crash usually indicates a defective GPU, but the people experiencing it couldn't get in ten minutes of gaming. I gamed for almost two hours after with no problems. Or is it just a Metro thing? I love this game but damn it abuses my graphics cards. It's like Furmark in an FPS.
 
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Played Payday 2 for like 30. Still nothing. Also played Unturned for like 10 (maxed). I think it was either a fluke or my PSU getting overdrawn. Any input is still helpful.
 
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Etorpine

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Played Day Z for a solid hour, still nothing. Inbetween I also watched Netflix which mildly uses the GPU. I say I'm fine.


Edit: I'm not mad but It's sad I had to answer my own question here. If I see a thread with no answers, even if I'm not sure what they're asking I try my best. This has happened to a majority of my posts on the graphics form. Oddly enough, no where else. You guys really need to get on it. My Artic Accelero thread didn't even get a view. It's like if the topic doesn't instantly scream POTENTIAL BEST ANSWER! Nobody goes for it.. I think the badge system does more hurt than help, it's all some people care about. Don't say I'm impatient either, I waited all night.
 
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