GPU crashing, No heat related.

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Hello there, I've got a HIS IceQ 7870 (AMD 7870) GPU, which is 5 years old GPU approx.
Recently, I've been facing GPU crashing in every game, Just 10-20 seconds I got in-game, the game freezes (also sounds) and then GPU driver restarts, screen is still frozen but sounds are normal.. I've opened GPU Z to check the sensors, and I only found this.
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As you can see, it has nothing to do with temperature, it was sitting around 55c. I've tried to lower GPU memory and clock by -150 and the game lasted longer, for about 2 mins.
 
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geofelt
I like the HIS direct cooler of your card.
It should be doing a sufficiently effective job of getting heat out of your case.

aerocool is considered a tier 4 unit on this list:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

If the psu did not come with the two 6 pin pcie power connectors your gpu requires, it likely is having a hard time delivering the required power.
Over time, a cheap psu can deteriorate and lose capability.
When gaming, the power draw from a gpu increases so that could explain your problem.
See if you can't test by borrowing a known good psu.

But... such deterioration, I think, would appear more slowly that your problem indicates.
Are there any game patches for Rust?

If you reboot after a failure...
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What has recently changed?
Perhaps you had a windows update that gave you the wrong driver.
I would reinstall the proper and current graphics driver downloaded directly from amd.

What is the make/model of your psu?
A cheap, weak or deteriorating psu can cause such symptoms.
 
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Well, I used to play Rust, it's a known game for instability. so, whenever I launch that game, 30 mins after playing, my PC crashes. I had to stick with this issue for a month and since then I guess my GPU couldn't handle any game. I'm not sure if it's dead, but browsing, watching movies etc.. is fine. it only crashes while gaming now. [15-20 seconds after launch]. About driver, I'll do what you asked me and reply as soon as possible.


About the psu, I think I'm using power aerocool 550W. [I will check it]
 
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I like the HIS direct cooler of your card.
It should be doing a sufficiently effective job of getting heat out of your case.

aerocool is considered a tier 4 unit on this list:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

If the psu did not come with the two 6 pin pcie power connectors your gpu requires, it likely is having a hard time delivering the required power.
Over time, a cheap psu can deteriorate and lose capability.
When gaming, the power draw from a gpu increases so that could explain your problem.
See if you can't test by borrowing a known good psu.

But... such deterioration, I think, would appear more slowly that your problem indicates.
Are there any game patches for Rust?

If you reboot after a failure, does anything change?
Possibly, the failure is leaving behind some bad code.
 
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King12pro

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I bought it from a local store, back in time, when gaming PCs weren't known in my country. Regarding Rust, it's a known game for it's instability [bad engine].

for the last question, no. but weirdly, after replacing my HDD with an SSD (that I bought yesterday) and installed everything on, everything started to work normal as it used to, in the old days. I tried both 720/1080p, and card was stable, surprisingly. I'm not sure if it had something to do with the HDD or the windows installed the wrong driver for me.


Thank you for trying to help, I really appreciate it. :)
 
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Yeah, I'm on windows 10. For now it's working fine, I'll reinstall the driver if the issue is back.
 
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