It's worth mentioning that I have also bought two new 120mm coolers for my PC tower.

I decided to buy a thermal paste (Coolermaster Mastergel Maker), opened my card, cleaned the old thermal paste off and applied the new one: 2 months ago, I've opened my card, and this is how it looked like: I was about to give up, but I found your thread and I thought it was worth giving it a try before starting to save money again for a new GPU. These are the settings I had to use for almost one year to be able to play games. I still had some black screens now and then though, they weren't really gone. To be able to play games without having black screens, I had to manually decrease my GPU's performance in MSI Afterburner. Started having this problem only one year after having bought the card actually, which is a joke. I'm a RX 480 MSI Gaming X 8GB user myself, and I had been doomed with the same black screen problem for almost one year. Just came back to this thread to say one thing: thank you. All credit goes to the guy that started the post in the link, without him I would not have figured it out. Hope this helps somebody save a little bit of money and not throw out their card when its just poor assembly. Viola!! It ran fine! I did the same thing, also with the help of some of Linus' videos, and it fixed mine as well!! Just to note I'm running a Red Devil Radeon RX 480, so this is not a cheap card but also not a super high end card either. He cleaned it off, put it back together, and. More specifically, there was little to no thermal compound on the actual GPU, it was all on the board on the side of it. That's where the problem was!!!! The CHEAP way some of these cards are made, was causing this issue.

He finally resorted to pulling the graphics card and taking apart and looking at it to see if there was anything noticeable. He did the exact same things I did and then some.

I found a very old thread, link below, that a guy was having the same issues. I had to swallow the pill of buying a new card in the middle of this bitcoin crap at the super high prices! It was about 2am my time and I was going to order the new card the next day when I decided to look for a fix. I was 100% sure the GPU was fried and it was too late to return it. I wasn't even playing graphically intensive games either! I had heard that it could be GPU, CPU, Motherboard, PSU. The system would just randomly crash from loading a game, all the way to being in the middle of a game and it crashes. I FIGURED IT OUT!!! I have been dealing with this for over 9 months with a BRAND NEW system I built following all of Linus Tech Tips videos.

Xcom 2 pc crash same moment