As stated in the title I have a 5 or 6 year old rig with the following specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16Ghz
Asus P5Q Pro LGA Intel P45 mobo
4 GB of ram
Antec 500W Power supply (SP-500)
Radeon HD4870
Running windows 7 64bit
For whatever reason whether it is in older games like CS GO or LoL or even in windows it will freeze and in the lower right hand corner I will get a message saying that the display device has been recovered and it will proceed to continue to work until it freezes again.
I've already tried rolling back the AMD driver to be Catalyst pre 13.2 to no avail.
So I'm asking the community, are there any video card suggestions based on my older specs I can upgrade to. I'm not sure if this is an AMD video card issue or not because it hasn't happened until the last month.
Criteria is options for less $100 and less than $150. Options for both Nvidia and AMD are fine.
Any other suggestions for possible fixes, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16Ghz
Asus P5Q Pro LGA Intel P45 mobo
4 GB of ram
Antec 500W Power supply (SP-500)
Radeon HD4870
Running windows 7 64bit
For whatever reason whether it is in older games like CS GO or LoL or even in windows it will freeze and in the lower right hand corner I will get a message saying that the display device has been recovered and it will proceed to continue to work until it freezes again.
I've already tried rolling back the AMD driver to be Catalyst pre 13.2 to no avail.
So I'm asking the community, are there any video card suggestions based on my older specs I can upgrade to. I'm not sure if this is an AMD video card issue or not because it hasn't happened until the last month.
Criteria is options for less $100 and less than $150. Options for both Nvidia and AMD are fine.
Any other suggestions for possible fixes, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
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