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Over the past few months I've been running 3 monitors on my r9 270x. With the only problem being that the monitor that used the active display port to hdmi addapter occasionally looses connection. It never bothered me to much till one day the monitor lost connection and couldn't get it to reconnect. I assumed it was the adabter so I replaced that but had no luck. I ultimately came to the conclusion the display port was bad so I just went along using two monitors. Then over the past month I slowly started having more and more crashes were the monitors would loose connection and the sound coming out of the computer was messed up but the computer would remain on and I was still able to turn the computer off by the cas power button. I'm assuming it is a failing gpu I just don't really have a way to test the components. All I have done so far for trouble shooting is a ram test which it passed and I monitored the temps of the system while gaming and they all stayed stable. I would like to get some opinions before I go out and buy a gpu and that not be the problem. 
My system specs are fx-8350, r9-270x, 600 watt Psu and 16gb (4x4) ram.

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What brands are your parts in the computer? Like the PSU,RAM and GPU.

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might be drivers, try re installing them before doing anything with hardware, if that dosent work then try re seating the card in the PCIe slot. if there still are problems then maby you should replace it, its not a beast of a card so maby an upgrade is due anyway ;) 

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I uninstalled all of my drivers using guru3d and reinstalled the latest drivers for the card. I have not experienced a crash yet however I still can not get the third monitor to display. My temps while under 72% load stayed around the 46°c mark with the max being 55­°c. Ill try re seating the card if I experience any more crashes. 

I've been looking on upgrading to either the gtx 780, 780ti or the gtx 970, would these card provide good fps gaming in medium to high settings while powering 2 other 1080p monitors? I do not do triple monitor gaming so id only be using one monitor for gaming and the other for webpages and monitoring programs.   

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