PC hardware manufacturer AMD recently released brand new drivers for their Graphics Cards called Crimson which offered improved performance in certain games notably Counter Strike: GO. After a couple of days users are reporting bugs and glitches with the new drivers with the major one killing numerous GPUs. The Crimson Drivers are supposedly limiting fan speed of the Graphics Cards which are causing them to overheat and die before the user can realize it. Drivers are overiding user setting and setting fan speeds to just 20% which is not suitable especially while playing demanding games. For those who have the Crimson Drivers installed and are looking for a fix can look into the temporary solution listed here which turns the fan to auto and change speeds as the temperature of your GPU rises. The solution is temporary because it the settings reset with every reboot.

It'll be interesting to see how AMD handles this as the new drivers are killing Graphics Cards which could lead to a them paying some sort of compensation to those affected.

Update:For its part, AMD says it is aware of 'isolated reports of low fan states following the installation of Radeon Software Crimson Edition on select Radeon GPUs.' The company says it has figured out the issue and the hotfix rolling out today should fix things up.