Garrus...My perfect workstation suddenly randomly crashing is a pain...

percy4209False. Afterburner was not hacked, some people made a bunch of phishing sites to look exactly like the Afterburner landing page with a version of Afterburner with malware/miner injected and this landing page some how got put at the very top of Google searches for Afterburner....I imagine through Google SEO manipulation of some sort... So downloading afterburner from one of these phishing sites, with the malwre/miner injected, was/is the only way to get this "hacked" version of Afterburner. If you only ever downloaded Afterburner from the official MSI landing page, you and your afterburner software have not been compromised.

pavleYou've got every right to be upset. I don't remember where but in Radeon Software there is an option "Restore factory defaults" - click it, apply it and report back.

Interesting that MSI puts old 350W cooler on a card with 3 power plugs (at least 350W if not 400W).

percy4209I have owned several Radeon 6000 models (ASRock OC Forumula 6950XT, Power Color Red Devil Ultimate 6900 XT, ASRock Challenger ITX 6600 XT, MSI Armor 6600 non-XT<-- garbage do not buy this one, Gigabyte Eagle / XFX Speedster Qick 6600 non-XT models, Gigabyte Eagle / MSI Mech 6700 XT models) and both the 5700 XT / 5600 XT (Sapphire Pulse Models on both) and have not experienced the issue you are talking about. I still have my Challenger 6600 XT as well as all of my 6600 non-XT models and I am trying to reproduce your "issue" and I cannot..Can you give any more information on this? I have had 0 issues with any of my AMD GPUs listed above outside of the Armor overheating which is a MSI problem, not an AMD problem....I currently run a Suprim X 3090 TI in my main rig and a suprim x 3080 in my ITX travel PC (aesthetic choices only) but I still have a super slim tiny ITX with the challenger 6600 itx, the MSI Armor 6600 (again this is absolutely a shit GPU poor, awful, design with an old ass cooler from Polaris RX 470/480/570/580 days just repurposed and slapped on a 6600 PCB which it does not fit and does not even cover the VRAM with the heatsink so the memory will overheat under extreme gaming conditions which is just shitty..and I say this as a full on MSI fanboy....msi is making it very difficult to keep saying this) is in my homelab DLNA server / private personal cloud / NAS machine and even this POS overheating GPU doesn't have the issue you're speaking about...so I'd love to see you expand on these claims/issues..maybe with more information I can reproduce this issue on one of my machines with an AMD GPU....

Afterburner wasn't "hacked" or compromised in anyway. Some clever folks copied the Afterburner landing page exactly to create their own phishing website that appeared to look exactly like the Afterburner site and somehow got their non-legitimate, non-MSI website pushed up to the very top of google search when googling Afterburner or MSI Afterburner. Probably using SEO tricks or some type of SEO manipulation. The Afterburner software downloaded from this site contained a compromised version with the Malware/Miner, but if you only ever downloaded Afterburner from the legitimate MSI Landing page, you and your afterburner are just fine.