So I've had my 7870 HAWK for almost 2 years now (got it Oct 2012). It has pretty much become the hallmark of my rig ever since and I love it. I ran it overclocked for awhile, did some Bitcoin mining, did some Litecoin mining, and some heavy gaming with it. But as of late, I turn on my mining software and it crashes, i log into WoW and it crashes (the least demanding of my games).
The only thing i can do without it crashing is browse the interwebz like a PLEB!@!!1 And when I say crash it's not bluescreening. The entire screen gets artifacted and my rig just freezes. The only thing i can do is a Hard shut down (shh shh go to sleep its okay). Ive pretty much unloaded my arsenal of registry cleanups, driver updates (& rollbacks), reseating the card into another PCI-e, and im about to strip the heatsink and put it in the oven (does this even work?).
Any suggestions?
I'm a broke college student so getting this to work would really save my ass.