PC crashes with solid color screen and emits white noise.

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Starner00

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Hi, I'm a newbie when it comes to PCs, so bare with me. I built my PC about a year ago, and every so often whenever I play a game, or watch a stream my PC will crash with a solid color screen. (I didn't take a picture because I'm an idiot, but this link is pretty much identical to what I experience: http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/amd-r9-270x-crash-issue-need-help-urgently-please-31646067/ ) The people talking in said link weren't of much help, nor were the other links from this site on the same issue. So I'm trying on my own. My temps don't exceed beyond 55c on the GPU (based on what the program Speccy tells me), so it's clearly not a temperature problem. My drivers are all up to date, as is every single thing on the computer, and I still have this issue. The games run flawlessly prior to the crash, so I can't even see it coming. It just goes from flawless, to dead screen. Is it too little RAM, is it just a bad card? Any help on this situation would be greatly appreciated.

My hardware is as follows:

CPU: AMD FX 6300
CPU Cooler: Cryorig M9a
MOBO: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P
GPU: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB DirectCU II- 1.12GHz
RAM: 2x4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600 UDIMM 1.5V CL9
PSU: EVGA 650 GQ
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Blue
Case: Corsair 100R Silent Edition
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Fas: 2 Corsair Air Series Af140 140mm Fan- 1200 RPM on front, and stock case 120mm fan on back.

Here is a link to all the stuff in case there are anymore details I may have missed.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yVqDQV
 
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It must be quite frustrating to be honest, and I can't really help, because it could be caused by either the motherboard, ram or VGA. You need to test them separately to see where the problem cones from. You can use memtest86 to test the RAM, run it for as long as you can, preferably for a day or at least overnight, and if it doesn't return an error, then I would start suspecting the VGA.
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PhysX_HW

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It must be quite frustrating to be honest, and I can't really help, because it could be caused by either the motherboard, ram or VGA. You need to test them separately to see where the problem cones from. You can use memtest86 to test the RAM, run it for as long as you can, preferably for a day or at least overnight, and if it doesn't return an error, then I would start suspecting the VGA.
 
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Groza Adrian

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I have been through that and it was a power supply problem (i had an r 280X).What happened was that from time to time the psu would drop voltages more than what is permitted (5% variation) and at that precise moment the GPU would lock in and die.It had nothing do to with the actual system load (I could be pushing the system hard and behave fine or I could be sitting idle and crash).Best of luck.
 
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