AMD Radeon users, your new driver set may fry your video card
AMD has just issued a fix to its graphics driver that was causing GPU fans to lock at 20% max speed, which in turn caused the GPU to overheat and, in some cases, kill the card. Even though it's listed as a beta, if you are using the Crimson graphics driver, you want to upgrade now.
Earlier this month AMD launched a whole new driver and video card application called Crimson, designed as a replacement for the old Catalyst driver and app. Crimson was intended to offer an updated interface and improved performance for DirectX 12.
As is so often the case, the issue first came to light on a Reddit community forum, where Radeon users found that the Crimson drivers were locking their fans at a low speed, thus the card overheated and died. At 20%, the fan is still pretty quiet, so the user has no idea there is a problem until their video card dies.
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