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I have a used RX 6900 XT Red Devil that I've owned for almost a year and it has started doing something odd. I can run games for hours on end without any stability issues, it won't even crash running Furmark. However, it will crash while watching videos in a web browser (Firefox, videos/streams from YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, random sports sites, etc.) or while watching people stream on Discord. It's not super consistent, but it will always eventually throw out a driver timeout that breaks graphics acceleration and requires a restart to fix. The issue has moved systems with the card, both test systems are the systems in my signature (my main PC and server.)

Troubleshooting steps tried (in order):

  • Repasted the card (had to do that anyways)
  • Clean driver uninstall with DDU and reinstall (also got rid of the NVIDIA drivers since I had an NVIDIA card prior to this and didn't realize the drivers were still there)
  • Reinstalled Windows on main PC (to rule out Windows issues)
  • Swapped from my main PC (sandwich-style Mini-ITX with a riser cable) to my server (no riser cable, direct PCIe connection) to rule out potential PSU (I know LTTLabs didn't review the SP850 well) or riser cable issues


Anyone have any ideas of what else to try? I haven't bothered undervolting/underclocking because if that's the fix, the card is cooked anyways. At this point I'm pretty much ready to go to Micro Center and get an RX 9070 XT.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 500GB Crucial P3 Plus, 4TB Silicon Power UD90 | GPU: AsRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Corsair SF850

Main Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 | Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair VII Hero WiFi | Storage: 512GB SKHynix NVMe | GPUs: NVIDIA TITAN Xp 2-way SLI | Cooling: Thermalright Frozen Prism 360mm | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM850

File and Media Server (AOOSTAR WTR Pro): CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5825U | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Silicon Power DDR4-3200 SODIMMs | Storage: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x14TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530

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