Keep getting black screens (no signal) while playing arma 3, possible gpu going bad?

iliketomatoes

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Yesterday I was playing arma 3 for about 4 hours when my screen went black and a no signal message came up. I couldn't get the signal to come back on, had th hold the power button restarted my computer and immediately checked hwmonitor for any temps that looked out of the ordinary, everything looked okay figured maybe it was a random error, started arma 3 back up and within 10 min of playing the same thing happened, I have a fx6300 on a msi970a-g43 overclocked to 4.1ghz and it's only been overclocked for about a week and a half using amd overdrive, I thought that might be the problem so I backed of the overclock to stock settings and started arma back up and within 10 min same thing happened, I shut my computer down for the night and today I did a memory test, ran prime95 for an hour and occt for 2 hours and everything seems to be okay and there have been no errors found. My gpu is a sapphire tri-x r9 290x could this be a failing gpu or possible that the motherboard is failing because it's a low end one? Thank you in advance for any help.

Heres my current setup minus the asus motherboard I should be getting that later today http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4mBGMp
 
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First thing undo your overclock on the processor that board is only designed to suport a 95 Watt processor not a overclocked 95 Watt that adds more.
Monitor your temps will running a stress test prime 95 for the processor and MSI Kombuster for the video card.
When you change the motherboard you going to need to do a fresh install of windows and this might include a new product code for it if yours will not activate.

Zerk2012

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First thing undo your overclock on the processor that board is only designed to suport a 95 Watt processor not a overclocked 95 Watt that adds more.
Monitor your temps will running a stress test prime 95 for the processor and MSI Kombuster for the video card.
When you change the motherboard you going to need to do a fresh install of windows and this might include a new product code for it if yours will not activate.
 
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iliketomatoes

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Thank you! I'll try that and post any updates and I have a retail version of Microsoft so I should be okay I called Microsoft and they said if I'm swapping a motherboard they can reset the product for me