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4870 crashing while gaming

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hunterx280

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I recently put a new computer together and installed Crysis to give it a test run. So far, Crysis seems to run at fairly smooth framerates even on very high settings so I was pretty happy. That was until I started getting hardware crashes. These crashes are so severe I have to reboot the machine. I figured it was probably the outdated ATI drivers on the disk (no internet on the machine at the moment, I have to buy a new wifi adapter or get Comcast to turn on the coax plug in my room but that's another story). So I went online and got the latest drivers for the 4870 on Vista 64 and installed them. The game crashed within a couple of minutes just like before. One thing I noticed was that the fan wasn't kicking up so I installed a fan controller and set the speed to 75% and the game crashed again. My question is, do I have a bad card or has anyone else experienced this with the 4870? So far playing at high settings instead of high seem to be doing ok but I was playing on very high early with no problems as well. This is very random. Also, a co-worker of mine said he has the same problem. I think I have plenty of juice coming out of the PSU but I have listed all the pertinent hardware I purchased with the system. Any help is welcome.

Video Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102769
PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371009
Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130184
CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036
RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134641
 
I just installed and was playing Jade Empire and it crashed for no reason again. I really think there might be something wrong with this card. Has anyone else experienced this or should I RMA the card
 
That was very helpful. I ended up swapping it out because of all the work people in that thread had to do in order to get the card to work. Mine was still under the return policy and it's worked out for the best as my new card works wonders!
 
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