FCPX freezing during render/AMD HD 7970

Using FCPX 10.1.1 and my new AMD HD 7970 3GB graphics card since December 2013. Been fine but now when FCPX renders my entire computer that is running 32GB of RAM and an external 9GB RAID with four internal SATA system is dragging and freezing. The mouse will just stop for about 5 seconds along with the keyboard. You can't do anything, then it resumes. Another 20 seconds go by and the freeze occurs again. Only while rendering. Should I re-install 10.1.1? My AMD 7970 is in the 16GB PCIe slot. Should I move it to a 4GB?

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Freeze during render

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Gavin

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-- End Quote --
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here's the problem.
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