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New Radeon HD 7870 and PC keeps crashing mid-game. Overheating?

  • 31-03-2013 3:07am
    #1
    Siickaant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    I just purchased a new AMD Radeon HD 7870 and everything was running fine. I started up my first game (Tomb Raider) and within 30 seconds my whole PC crashed. I reduced the graphics from Ultimate to Ultra and this seemed to stop it, but about 10 minutes later it crashed again. Some games (e.g. Max Payne 3) seem to do the same but last much longer (hours). Started up BioShock Infinte for the first time and when I went and changed the settings from Medium to Ultra I crashed within 5 seconds, without even leaving the settings. This makes it seem like it isn't overheating if it's happening this fast.

    My Temp readings at time of crash were CPU: 49C and GPU: 69C

    CPU might be the issue? It's a Phenom II x4 955. I'm not sure if this makes a difference.

    Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    What power supply do you have?


  • #3
    schriss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭schriss


    If it was graphics card overheating I think your game would just crash to desktop and windows would display a display driver error or something similar or even no error at all apart from game crashing.
    If your power supply is too weak to supply enough power to that graphics card, I imagine situation would probably be different, like a sudden reboot or maybe a blue screen.


  • #4
    Burgo
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    Anything in event viewer?


  • #5
    N64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭N64


    Temps seem fine. As TerrorFirmer asked, what make/model is your PSU? Did you use a program like driversweeper between your previous graphics card driver installs and the new one you installed for your 7870?


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