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GPU only running about 80% in Far Cry 3

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As the title says,i was really surprised,as i ve got my 3570k O/C to 4.4ghz,got the latest AMD drivers installed and the game runs well with my O/C 7850,running at 11.70ghz,with no crashes,the games runs with everythin set to high/very high and 2x AA on and runs close to 60fps,the only strange thing that happens is that a message comes up after a while saying desktop gadgets have stopped working and i loose the sound(i have since removed the gadgets)i have 8gig of ram running at stock.
 
the only strange thing that happens is that a message comes up after a while saying desktop gadgets have stopped working and i loose the sound

Straight away tells me the OC is unstable. Had this error myself a few hours ago while playing with my clocks.

Stress testing is okay, but it doesn't always pick up the errors. You really have to watch it for artifacts, but even then not all problems will manifest as artifacts. Sometime they'll just do what you just experienced out of the blue. I was browsing the net when it happened.

Also poor performance can be down to the V-RAM clock, with memory errors and that.
 
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