My PC keeps freezing and saying "Display driver has stopped responding"

xAAxInsanity

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The message in the title keeps coming up after the PC glitches out and coloured lines go across the screen. Sometimes after glitching out the PC will either restart or just freeze. I'm not very knowledgeable about computers and I just want to play games without this happening. Also I have checked and all of my drivers are up to date.
Thanks on advance.
 

xAAxInsanity

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I have a xfx hd7950 and it usually happens when I am playing games specifically Battle.net games
 

whytekid

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Not sure if this is still relevant but I have had the same problem and I am fairly certain it is to do with the power consumption. I have tried lowering the cpu and gpu clock speeds and the problem has gone away for now. I have heard all kinds of answers to this problem but at the moment I'd rather have a slightly less powerful PC than one that is constantly freezing. Note: I never have an issue when playing games (Battlefield, Rocket League, Insurgency, etc) so I am not actually sure why this has worked :)