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BSOD with atikmag.sys while playing games
Finally upgraded from a gt220 card to a hd 6870 and everything seems to be working fine except when I'm playing higher end games such as Dead Island or Bad company 2. It seems to be crashing at random and I have no idea where to start to look. I don't know if I should RMA the card or what. I have the latest drivers and I driver swept for old nvidia drivers and physx already before I installed ati drivers. It only seems to crash randomly with higher end games, for example I have played older games (games that came out around 2006ish and tf2) for hours with no problems. I've been monitoring temps while playing and neither my CPU or GPU has had unusually high temps. Highest logged is about 52 for CPUS and approx 60 for GPU. This is my first experience with an ati video card so I don't know if its just a faulty card or maybe my older motherboard is not compatible or if I should have just stuck with nvidia. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
edit: I've also done 1 pass with ram checker and no problems came up. Also, last time I've had a clean format is approx. 1 year ago.
Specs :
Intel core duo e4600 2.4ghz
motherboard: in9 32x-max
8gb ram
64 bit win 7
sapphire hd6870
corsair gs700w power supply
attached is dump files and perfmon results. Thanks guys.