display drivers failed, Black screens, tearing,... Bottleneck?

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Hi guys, I just received my Gigabyte GTX770 in the mail.
My Athlon x4 860k is still being delivered, but in the meantime I have it paired with an A6-5400K.
I understand that this CPU is poor enough to warrant a bottleneck, but I simply CAN'T play anything.

I'm pretty certain my problem is unrelated to the bottleneck, because it gives me the same error it gave me with my old AMD card. "display driver failed... something something kernels something."

This issue is more or less the reason I got a new GPU (although an upgrade was definitely desirable) and yet nothing has changed..

I've done most everything I've been recommended online to do when your display drivers "fail" but nothing has changed.

When I get back home I can give the full details of the error, but in the meantime all I know is that the screen starts breaking, everything goes black, and it tells me the drivers have failed no matter what game or program I'm running.
 
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Hi there
I presume you've loaded the latest GeForce drivers for your new GTX770.
Have you done the same for the Radeon drivers for your A6?

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My ram was the issue, I have a 4gb and a 2gb in, so I removed the 4gb and it hasn't happened since.