R9 270X Crashing ?

[jamesallenby]

Hey I have recently bought a MSI r9 270x 2GB OC edition and have had a problem with it randomly crashing?

The screen just turns green or white with vertical lines and I have to reboot. I think it is the GPU as the rest of my system seems unaffected ( eg music will carry on playing). This happens seemingly randomly even when doing light tasks.

 

Setup:

• CPU
  i5 4670k
• Motherboard
  msi z87-gd45 gaming
• RAM
  8gb hyperx beast 2400mhz
• GPU
  MSI R9 270x OC
• Case
  Corsair 300r ww
• Storage
  Samsung evo 120gb , 2TB WD Green
• PSU
  Corsair rm550w
• Display(s)
  Benq Gl2450
• Cooling
  Corsair Af120 and stock intel cooler
• Keyboard
  Corsair k30
• Mouse
  Corsair m65 fps
• Sound
  Dell altec lansing ada995 , on board sound

 

Any help and advice would be much appreciated.

James  

[flibberdipper]

Does sound like a GPU issue. For the money, this R9 280 is pretty damn good. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280atdfd

[Asche]

Hi,

 

When you have this situation, the light for num lock, or Maj lock on your keyboard still turn on/off ?

If yes, then it is certainly the graphics card.

 

And lines like that on your screen is never a good sign.

The only piece who can do that is the GPU.

[Fate]

Turn the memory clock down about 50MHz (maybe more), a lot of R9 series cards have this same exact issue. 

[jamesallenby]

Turn the memory clock down about 50MHz (maybe more), a lot of R9 series cards have this same exact issue. 

Ok I am trying this now, it doesn't happen very often so we will have to wait and see if this resolves it .

Thanks 

[Extingquish]

Is that a recent photo of the driver version? Those drivers pictured are 18months old AFAIK, try updating to 14.12: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download