Roark
Lord of Bacon
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A few days ago I found a process running I didn't recognize. Looked it up and apparently was some sort of bitcoin miner.
I ran my cleaning programs (MBAM, Spybot S&D, CCleaner), then did a full system scan with MSE, which is always running anyway.
Thought I was clean, thought I was safe.
Last night my computer shutdown randomly while I was playing Stellaris.
When I turned it back on ... pop - fizzle ... bricked GPU.
After roughly a year of running fine my R9 290 is toast.
I didn't think Stellaris was system intensive enough to brick a GPU, and I was confident my system was clean.
What is the most likely, game too intense or I missed a virus?
Don't want to spend money on a replacement just to have it happen again.
I ran my cleaning programs (MBAM, Spybot S&D, CCleaner), then did a full system scan with MSE, which is always running anyway.
Thought I was clean, thought I was safe.
Last night my computer shutdown randomly while I was playing Stellaris.
When I turned it back on ... pop - fizzle ... bricked GPU.
After roughly a year of running fine my R9 290 is toast.
I didn't think Stellaris was system intensive enough to brick a GPU, and I was confident my system was clean.
What is the most likely, game too intense or I missed a virus?
Don't want to spend money on a replacement just to have it happen again.