small pauses/freezes

Maximusheadroom said:

i put a fresh install of windows on a spare hard disk this evening, let windows go through doing its updates
i didnt install anything just let windows do its thing, and i still got the freezes and the screen would flicker straight after the pauses.
installed WPR and did a trace. I bought the graphics card end of Feb last year think i might try get it sent to powercolor unless the thought here is still driver issue?

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Humm!
If it's not a driver issue, it's either a hardware issue on the graphic card or some weird parameters in the Bios !

Have you already set the bios parameters to default?

Maximusheadroom said:

yes default, dont know what else i can do now

You can check the CPU and the GPU temperature;
You can use Speccy to check the CPU temperature

You can check the GPU temperature from the task manager: