Please help me diagnose my 7970

[LateX'Dog]

So in August a built a new system:

Corsair AX750w PSU
i5 3570K overclocked to 4.8ghz ( 48 x 100 )
MSI Z77A-GD65 Motherboard
8gb Mushkin Ridgeback (Set to XMP in Bios)
MSI 3gb 7970 Lightning (Stable overclock at 1200/1600)

Now ever since i had the graphics card installed i was having crashes, hangs and lots of other issues all related to the graphics card.

Then the other week it bricked it's self and i returned it. After returning it i was given:

Gigabyte 3gb 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X (Currently at stock which is 1100/1500)

After installing the card and installing 12.11 beta 11 drivers + CAP2, i fired up Far Cry 3 in DX 11 mode and after around 12mins or so, it would crash.

So i turned on DX 9 mode and again it would crash after about 10 or so mins.

So worried that my windows installed was a little buggered i decided to do a complete reinstall of windows ,the 12.11 beta 11 drivers and Far Cry 3. So again i loaded up Far Cry 3 DX 11 mode and it was crashing. Switched to DX 9 mode and the same thing.

So i uinstalled the drivers and installed the 12.10's, this time the game loads for longer then 5 mins, but generally lasts less then 10mins and completely crashes.

On all occasions i've had BSOD's ranging from "IRQ not less or equal" to dxgmms1.sys errors.

I'm running out of options and after having 3 months of nothing but inconsistent performance and poor drivers I'm completely regretting the move to ATI.

So for the life of me, can anyone please assist me and help me try and fix this issue.

 

[LateX'Dog]

DX 11 mode using 12.10's

Spoiler

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: farcry3_d3d11.exe
Application Version: 0.1.0.1
Application Timestamp: 50ba42e8
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17965
Fault Module Timestamp: 506dbe50
Exception Code: c0000096
Exception Offset: 00013b85
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

DX9 mode using 12.10's gave me a Blue Screen.

DX9 mode on low settings

Spoiler

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: farcry3.exe
Application Version: 0.1.0.1
Application Timestamp: 50ba4335
Fault Module Name: atiumdag.dll
Fault Module Version: 9.14.10.926
Fault Module Timestamp: 5064fef0
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00003984
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

 

[mmj_uk]

Is your 4.8ghz CPU overclock Prime95 tested? I would try setting it to stock if not.

 

[kiel367]

i would defo put it all back to stock, test it and see wether it crashes

 

[iBSOD]

4.8 is a pretty high overclock for 3570k. might not be completely stable

 

[LateX'Dog]

I'll try dropping it to 4.5ghz, but its prime stable.

 

[old gamer]

I would put the cpu and gpu back to stock and see if its stable then if so slowly increase oc and see how it goes

 

[LateX'Dog]

I would put the cpu and gpu back to stock and see if its stable then if so slowly increase oc and see how it goes

Problem is, the card is already at stock. It comes at 1100mhz on the core and 1500 on the memory.

 

[LateX'Dog]

CPU is now down to 4.5ghz and up the volts to 1.25v

 

[Tonester0011]

How low was the voltage on that 3570k? If that was really prime stable, good clocker.

 

[LateX'Dog]

Just realised that the memory wasn't set up to XMP (Which i thought it was).

Increased the volts to 1.25v and put it back up to 4.8ghz, running a round of prime95 64bit now.