BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! I think it's the GPU, What Should i get next?

TDice

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PC Spec:
CPU: i5 4460
GPU: GIGABYTE Radeon R9 280 windforce
Ram: 16gb of Team Elite
Motherboard: Asrock 97m pro 4
HDD: 240gb +1tb Seagate
SSD: Kingston 128gb
PSU: EVGA 220-G2-0850-RX 850W
OS: Windows 7

Okay, my main purpose of my when I built it was for gaming. Now it has moved to work and gaming since my macbook air has slowed down a lot. I Get the Blue Screen of death about 20% to 30% of the time when I play cs:go.

Error code: 0X00000116
ATIKMDAG.SYS

Blue screen not from csgo: 0x0000007E
dxgmms1.sys

I don't know what else it could be other than ram or GPU and I was going to just replace the GPU first and see how that goes.

upgrade will be more towards work than gaming, I been doing a lot of video editing lately and only using iMovie (which i want to stop using and start using a better video editor) and i know i will have to upgrade the rest of my computer down the road like the cpu.

What are your guys thought on this and what gpu do you think will be best? i was thinking 1060 or rx480 but the ones i want are all out of stock. My budget for GPU is around $270 and might be able to go over if its worth it. I would like it to support 2 monitor setup, I game in 1080 but would like it to handle a 144hz screen and also a 4k screen (not for gaming).

Thank you for your time.

 
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I have heard amd Radeon rx480 is the better value. It costs less and you can configure in crossfire mode should you add a second graphics card later in life.

Cole_9

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I have heard amd Radeon rx480 is the better value. It costs less and you can configure in crossfire mode should you add a second graphics card later in life.
 
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TDice

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Yeah, i could crossfire rx 480 later and my computer would be a lot better.

Also, you think i will beed more than a 850 psu for 4k?
 

HeeBeeJeeBee2287

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Um... power supplies have no effect on framerates and resolutions but a 750 watt would be more than enough for a pair of 480s
 
Try to fix your bugcheck problem. Update your motherboard drivers, disable sound sources that do not have speakers connected to them, remove over clock software. Then go to bios and update it or reset it to defaults. This will make the bios rescan and rebuild the hardware resources assignments database it sends to windows.

There are some usb bug/drivers that can also cause graphics bugcheck but you have to set debuging flags and look at a kernel memory dump in the windows debugger to figure it out.

Going to a new video card might also work because the bios would detect the hardware Change and rebuild the database it sends to windows. If it does not, you would still have to resolve the hidden conflict.