MSI R9 380 4GB lags, crashes and freezes on every game

Roxx26

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So, I got a R9 380 4GB oc'd at 1110 core, 1575 memory and +15mv
It's been like that for 8 months...
It had it's random crashes (had to up voltage or it give me BSODs all day every day), freezes, but it wasn't very often, so I didn't quite cared...
but recently it started to lag, freeze and even some crashes on every game, suddenly drops from 200fps to 30 then back at normal fps... if i'm playing some singleplayer games, i don't care THAT much... but the problem is, i play a lot of shooters, and fps drops screw up your aim, and i've been avoiding my preferred gaming genre for a long time now, so is my card dying, or is it something else?
some aditional infos:
CPU: AMD FX 8350 4GHz (not oc'd)
GPU: MSI R9 380 Gaming 4GB (oc'd at core 1100, memory 1575 and +15mv)
RAM: 2x8 Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
MOBO: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
PSU: Corsair CX600W
Temps: CPU 62 GPU 62 while gaming
Thanks in advance guys
 

schaft

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yes, your card is screaming and its heaven gate is coming closer :D
You should try to turn off all the overclock and clean the heatsink or even try changing the thermal paste.
Assuming you said 200fps with overclock, without overclock it should still produce 150+fps, so you should still be fine without overclock.
Lets hope it still run well in its original speed.

At least you could overclock into speed that can be attained WITHOUT increasing the voltage. My parts never break on me because I almost never touch the voltage. The only voltage increase is on my amd cpu under assumption I bought a really good heat sink for dissipating the heat it produce.
 

Roxx26

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the thing is, I cant use it without upping the voltage, if I do, i'll get crashes, bsods, every game will crash... i clean it regularly, i actually did a fresh windows and drivers install about 2 weeks ago (new year new life lol) and reapplied the thermal paste... but the temps were the same.
and i only oc'd my card because i HAD to up the voltage to use it :x