I hate to say this but.Try this.Backup your important files.If you are using Steam There is a backup function for your games.Under the Steam button when you open steam.Backup your games on a second harddrive an not the one your going to do this on.Go to AMD an download the 11.9 Driver an save that on the second drive.Now here are your options.
(option1)(Recommended):Format your drive completely.Then reinstall your Operating System.Then Catalyst Driver 11.9 and disable updates on the driver before going online.When online an you load up steam.Disable Steam updates so you do not automatically install a Graphics driver by accident.Or without consent.Then install your games from your backup.
(option2)This is a possible fix that you can try now.Go to (Power Options) an select your power option.Now Change PLan Settings\Change advanced Power Settings\Processor power management. Now make sure System cooling policy is Active.
This is because the AMD driver designers instead of actually checking the driver functions have been just turning off your P.C.Health Hardware functions because they are using water cooling an do not notice anyone using any other hardware other than there own experience over heating.This will show that it is turned off.It must be [Active].
Now Maximum processor state should be 50% to 75%.in Balanced mode.If you see it is set to 100%.That is a Gimic of there crew tricking there Supervisor into believing they are improving they are increasing performance so they do not get fired.The actual performance is 50% in Balanced.
At High performance it should be set to 100%.If you are using a stock cooler you will hear your fan from all the way in the other room.This is because the program function for balancing fan spins was disabled in the program.However the program is still in older version of the Catalyst driver in the 11.9 version.
NOTE:Once an up to date driver has been install the 11.9 driver cannot bypass any other functions that override the latest version.So once you update there is no way to completely remove the changes.Even rolling back to an eariler date.It in your system.You must Format again.
There are no other ways around this.This was reported to AMD for the past year an they have no responded or addressed this issue.
Note#2 The overheating problem is not just affected on the AM3+ But the AM3 models.This is a driver issue.Not hardware.Reports of people using Phenom II 6 and 4 core drivers have also experienced this.
Note#3 FX chips are not designed to generate heat due to the L1 an L2 Cache.The only way this can be the cause of an issue is through driver programing.The harder it is for L1 to enter L2 the more heat is generated.Too thin a L1 transfer the more heat.To large a L2 the longer the loading is causing stutters.An Harder force to extract the data causing even more heat.
A good balance between the two an you have a cooler extraction of data.FX chips are not designed to generate higher heat than 63cOver that limit is overheating.This does not account for fan speeds increasing to generate heat.