GPU overheating or something else?

[WinterPwnd]

I've had a r9 280x for quite some time now, this summer though some issues started appearing and I'm not sure if it's the gpu or something else. Just as I'm playing, after a while, my PC will just freeze, no error no sound nothing it just remains there as if I have a screenshot open and I can still hear it working. Usually after a restart this stopped happening untill the next day. Yesterday though it happened 2 times in a row so I decided to try increasing the fan speed on my gpu by quite a lot and the issue didn't appear again during the rest of the day. Now my question is whether this was actually the problem or I just got lucky and it didn't happen again? If my GPU was to overheat, would the PC just freeze?

[TheRandomness]

What temperatures are they reaching? Also, they thermal throttle first, without freezing. This may be perceived at stuttering or a huge drop in FPS. 

[WinterPwnd]

4 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

What temperatures are they reaching? Also, they thermal throttle first, without freezing. This may be perceived at stuttering or a huge drop in FPS. 

I usually don't have msi afterburner on to look at temps but 2-3 times when I did have it on both gpu and cpu were ~75 degrees, cpu was reaching almost 80. After I changed the fan speeds gpu never went above 60 and cpu was at 70 most of the time when playing games.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, WinterPwnd said:

I usually don't have msi afterburner on to look at temps but 2-3 times when I did have it on both gpu and cpu were ~75 degrees, cpu was reaching almost 80. After I changed the fan speeds gpu never went above 60 and cpu was at 70 most of the time when playing games.

Not thermal throttling. Maybe use DDU to obliterate old drivers and install the latest drivers?

[WinterPwnd]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Not thermal throttling. Maybe use DDU to obliterate old drivers and install the latest drivers?

I can try later if the issue appears again.

[KearneyMC]

1 hour ago, WinterPwnd said:

I can try later if the issue appears again.

What driver versions?

[Soumyangel]

2 hours ago, WinterPwnd said:

I usually don't have msi afterburner on to look at temps but 2-3 times when I did have it on both gpu and cpu were ~75 degrees, cpu was reaching almost 80. After I changed the fan speeds gpu never went above 60 and cpu was at 70 most of the time when playing games.

is this during gaming or idling? wht cpu are u using?