Hi all,
Recently my PC had started crashing temporarily when under heavy load (~5 minutes into a game), the screen won't refresh, keyboard / mouse input won't be registered and the last .1ms of sound that was being played will repeat. After a few seconds, the screen will refresh and some input will be registered but the problem persists until the game is stopped, where everything is mostly fine. I've found this happens very occasionally as well when watching videos, but the crash will only be very quick.
Temperatures when it crashes are around 68c for the CPU and 60c for the Graphics card, which rest at around 25c and 45c respectively, not ideal but acceptable as far as I can tell.
I'm under the impression that it's my graphics card, I've completely removed and re-installed the drivers which has only made the 'crash' occur a bit later than usual. No changes have been made to my computer (that I know of) in the last 4 days as I've been away, and everything worked absolutely fine before this. Would anyone know if there's been an AMD driver / windows update that I didn't notice which might have caused this?
From what I can tell, the voltage from the PSU isn't dropping outside of acceptable ranges, there aren't any processes sucking up any resources apart from the game and Virus, Malware and Spyware scans have all turned up with nothing.
Could anyone help me find the source of the problem? I'd like to avoid buying a replacement graphics card on a hunch. My current specs are below:
CPU: AMD FX-6100 (6 core, 3.3Ghz)
GPU: Sapphire AMD R9 270x 4Gb
PSU: Powercool Modular 750W
RAM: 8Gb Corsair xms3
MB: Gigabyte GA990XA-UD3
Thanks in advance
Recently my PC had started crashing temporarily when under heavy load (~5 minutes into a game), the screen won't refresh, keyboard / mouse input won't be registered and the last .1ms of sound that was being played will repeat. After a few seconds, the screen will refresh and some input will be registered but the problem persists until the game is stopped, where everything is mostly fine. I've found this happens very occasionally as well when watching videos, but the crash will only be very quick.
Temperatures when it crashes are around 68c for the CPU and 60c for the Graphics card, which rest at around 25c and 45c respectively, not ideal but acceptable as far as I can tell.
I'm under the impression that it's my graphics card, I've completely removed and re-installed the drivers which has only made the 'crash' occur a bit later than usual. No changes have been made to my computer (that I know of) in the last 4 days as I've been away, and everything worked absolutely fine before this. Would anyone know if there's been an AMD driver / windows update that I didn't notice which might have caused this?
From what I can tell, the voltage from the PSU isn't dropping outside of acceptable ranges, there aren't any processes sucking up any resources apart from the game and Virus, Malware and Spyware scans have all turned up with nothing.
Could anyone help me find the source of the problem? I'd like to avoid buying a replacement graphics card on a hunch. My current specs are below:
CPU: AMD FX-6100 (6 core, 3.3Ghz)
GPU: Sapphire AMD R9 270x 4Gb
PSU: Powercool Modular 750W
RAM: 8Gb Corsair xms3
MB: Gigabyte GA990XA-UD3
Thanks in advance
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