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Is my video card faulty, or it something else? (game crashes)
Hey guys, I'll try to explain my problem the best way I can...
I've having trouble running games for quite sometime now. Games like BFBC2, Mafia II, Dead Space - mostly modern games that take up more CPU, GPU usage. When I run these games, they either crash (windows says they stopped working);the AMD driver stops working, or in some rare cases the system freezes.
I've pretty much tried everything, reinstalled drivers, reformatted etc.. The only time I can really get any stable game play is if I don't OC my CPU, which is strange because I'm not OCing my CPU like hardcore - the max I OCed is 3.4GHz @ 1.235v, I de-clocked to 3.2GHz @ 1.235v since I had the same problem months ago, but this week I've been getting the same problems I had before, and I didn't change ANYTHING at all, so now I'm running standard clocks on my CPU (2.8GHz). Raising the voltage on the CPU didn't help at all when OCing, I went all the way up to 1.5v-1.6v and nothing, still crashes etc.
The reason I'm asking if either something is wrong with my GPU is because when games crash on my system, my entire computer starts acting up, the graphics/pictures in games become distorted (kinda like artifacts on defected GPU), and the sound becomes all static (like feedback), I can't explain it - it's weird. I have to reboot my PC in order to fix it. Also I get the "Display driver has stopped working" in some occasions, usually when I play dead space. My CPU, nor my video card are overheating - the max temp my CPU has gone is 48-50c, and my video card is 57-60c.
This pic shows pretty much what happens after a game crashes and try to play it again:
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7302/26032010210.jpg
So should I RMA my card, or could it be something else?
(click on my system specs below my name)