Vertical lines crash

evilman12

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Jun 16, 2016
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Hi everyone, I've had some trouble with my graphic card lately, seems I have fixed it but I would still like to hear your feedback on it. So here goes:

I recently bought a whole setup with an AMD radeon r7 250 graphic card. It'd constantly crash with white screen (sometimes black or blue) with vertical lines. It'd happen roughly around 10-30 minutes of pc use, internet browsing, music etc... Tried reinstalling graphic card drivers, tried new ones, old ones (of course I did it with DDU), nothing helped so I decided to RMA the whole computer. They actually gave me a new one, with exact same specifications.

Now... The problem is, it worked fine for about 3 weeks and this started happening again, though it wouldn't happen on desktop as much, I've had the pc for about a month and a half now and it crashed maybe 2 times on desktop, would never crash in any games but would constantly crash on Quake Live, weird right? The vertical stripes/lines would be black, orange, blue, gray etc...

Crashed 2 times with normal pc use, no gaming, just internet browsing. Replaced graphic card drivers and installed the newest ones, crashes after that didn't occur at all. No crashes on games whatsoever. I play Dark Souls 3, DOOM, Fallout 4, Bioshock infinite. Works fine!

Until I tried playing Quake Live and it'd crash almost instantly, in about 3-5 minutes of gameplay.

Then I actually read what graphic card I specifically have. It's "AMD Radeon R7 250 Powercolor 1GB DDR5, DVI/HDMI/128bit/AXR7 250 1GBD5-HV2E/OC"

Then I wondered, wait, OC edition? Are those clocks stable at all? Then I underclocked memory frequency from 1125 to 1000mhz, left the gpu clock at 925 which was default anyways and haven't had a single crash yet, anywhere... No crashes at all with Quake Live now, nor on desktop or anywhere else...

Should I RMA this computer as well? What do you guys think? Is the factory overclock not stable? Temperatures are just fine with the graphic card as well, wouldn't go over 50 degrees Celsius with heavy gaming.

GPU Z says default clocks are 925mhz for gpu and 1125mhz for memory clock. However with 1000Mhz memory clock, Quake Live works fine now. What do you guys think?