My heart froze in concurrence with the PC. I went to get the latest driver from AMD and my PC died while finishing the install. So I decided it might not be a hardware issue even though my PC was still very hot, this latest crash had been after a particularly intense overnight gaming session after all. Immediately realised the graphics were on ultra so I turned them down only for the PC to crash. After a week of playing Total War: Warhammer 2 great on ultra it started doing some weird artifacts on the screen again. Replaced the thermal paste and cleaned it all with isopropyl alcohol and it works better than ever. There was a thick wad of dust on the inside, all over one side of the heat sink so I'm glad I decided to do this. I had some trouble getting the GPU off the motherboard. So I stopped using it for 6 months, during the quarantine I decided to have another go at removing the GPU myself. So while playing a game I started getting weird flickers and artifacting, this was not long after my computer started to overheat while gaming. i5 6700k or something or other and an AMD Radeon R9 390X. I have an HP Omen desktop, about 5 years old. So I would like to add my piece, mainly since there are a lot of people out there yet to add their side, even to confirm if solutions did or did not help.
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