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Hey guys, so today I was playing Gears of War 4 on PC and I noticed that my MSI R9 290 Gaming Edition (overclocked to 1100MHz) graphics card was reaching 95c in the menus and 89c in game. So right away I though it was because of my overclock. I set the card to factory settings and was getting close to the same temps as before. Right away I had a feeling that something was not right with the cards seating or thermal paste. First thing I did was tighten down the screws and tried playing Gears again, still, about 90c. Next I decided to open up the card and take a look at the thermal paste. (This gpu is basically new, opened out of the box 4 months ago. Also, I never took off the cooler or messed with any of the screws, just popped it in and started to game) Guys, I really wish I took a picture of what I saw. There was practically NO thermal paste on the chip. I swear there was maybe a tinny dab when it was applied at the factory. Like not even pea size. I cleaned off what little was there and applied Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound and screwed it all back together. My temps dropped from 95c to 71c in the menus and from 89c to 69c in game. That is an insane difference. I did have to screw through the VOID WARRANTY sticker but after a lot of research I found out that the sticker is a deterrent and the warranty is only voided if you damage the card itself. (do this at your own risk though) I'm guessing that I just got unlucky when this card was manufactured, but I wanted to share this information just in case someone else is having this issue with the MSI R9 290 or other GPU's. I've never had this problem with any other GPU's that I've owned but this leaves me wondering.

Hey guys, about 4 days ago I was having a issue where every single game I tried to play crashed within 10 seconds of starting. I thought that it could have been my drivers so I installed them again and still had the same issue. After that failed I figured I would try a clean install of the drivers, so I used AMD's Clean uninstall utility and removed all of the drivers. Then I reinstalled the drivers (turned off anti virus during install) and still had the same problem. After a TON of trouble shooting I found out that it was a program called plays.tv that was causing the crashs. Ever since I used the clean install utility I have been unable to open the RadeonSettings and have been getting an error that says "failed to create OpenGL context (see pic below)" I have searched all over and cannot find a fix. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for your time. CPU: FX-8350 GPU: R9 290 MSI Gaming Edition

If you are not overclocking and everything is running smooth then it is best not to mess with the bios unless you have to.

I put a severely out of date Radeon HD 2900 GT into my first desktop I ever bought that was not a hand me down. I knew nothing about computers at the time and thought that the 2900 was the coolest, fastest thing I've seen. Now 3 builds in, I laugh at how much of a noob I was.

Castdeath is right there is not much more you can do. I'm amazed you got that stable RAM OC

GTX 960 for 1080p gaming

Awesome! Glad to hear its running better!

Hmm, this is odd. I have a EVGA GTX 960 2 GB SSC with an FX-8350 and can run BF4 on max 60 fps. What brand GPU are you using and how much RAM does the system have?