Possible gfx problem - Computer crashing during games

[Furyum]

During the past few days, while playing Sims 3 and Trackmania Canyon, I've been getting these screens and my computer has just completely frozen up. My computer was built by myself and has the MSI 7850 in it with up to date drivers. I'm not getting these crashes until I play a game and they are usually happening within the first 30 minutes. As it is my first build, and I'm a bit of a hardware newbie, I was hoping that someone could at least point me in the right direction of what to do next!

Also, the lines that appear when my computer freezes can appear in varying colours, if that helps...

 

[nuzik]

Check your temps of your card. Have you clocked it?

 

[Furyum]

Card is not overclocked, is currently running at about 35-40 degrees during games.

 

[Orcvader]

What PSU do you have? What is the rest of the system specs? How hot does the CPU get?

 

[Footyslayer]

I bought a 7850 2 weeks ago, had nothing but trouble so it's going back. I did a lot of research on the 7850 and a lot of what I read was bad.

Don't get me wrong it could be a good card and is for many but my experience and subsequent google searching ended up in it being a bad card for me.

 

[weehamish]

Actually i had this issue with 3 7850s.

What motherboard do you have? Some will not support the 7850 even with a BIOS update.

If its a new mobo you can check the cables make sure everything is snug inside the monitor.

Other then that RMA time, i had to send 3 back and settled with a 660 in the end.

 

[Furyum]

What PSU do you have? What is the rest of the system specs? How hot does the CPU get?

My PSU is an XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply. Rest of the specs are as follows:

Intel i5 3570k (Not overclocked, working and running perfectly)
2x8gb GeIL Black Dragon 1333mhz RAM
MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

I was also wrong about MSI, it's a Gigabyte card, although I realise that that doesn't make much of a difference...

Shame to hear about all the problems with these cards.

 

[Footyslayer]

My PSU is an XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply. Rest of the specs are as follows:

Intel i5 3570k (Not overclocked, working and running perfectly)
2x8gb GeIL Black Dragon 1333mhz RAM
MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

I was also wrong about MSI, it's a Gigabyte card, although I realise that that doesn't make much of a difference...

Shame to hear about all the problems with these cards.

Yep mine was a gigabyte too, from what I know from researching this it's something to do with the volts on the card, my version was a pre overclocked windforce. I messed with the volts and it got better but I wasn't happy to having to keep messing with it to get it working so I RMA'd it and am getting a 7970.