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Stock GTX 570 needs volts to be stable

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Some advice please chaps!

I've recently got myself an Asus DirectCU GTX 570 which I've had nothing but trouble with. Some games are fine such as Dirt2/3 etc but BF3 crashes sometimes after seconds with what looks like a screen full of green dollar symbols. Anyway my previous super overclocked GTX 460 was solid as a rock in this system so thinking I was pushing my luck with a 500w PSU I upgraded to a Corsair 650HX thinking the problem would go away - but it hasn't.
Now I've established that increasing the voltage from the stock 1.025v to 1.050v resolves the problem completely but I just don't see this as acceptable even though there appears to be countless similar issues reported out on the net. In particular I guess I've not a hope of overclocking this card even mildly if it requires volts to run at stock.

There is nothing else to try is there? Presumably it's just a duffer and I should RMA?
 
You'll be able to OC a bit, believe 1.1 is completely safe and 1.15 is also meant to be safe too (though some claim contrary)
As you say its a widespread problem, not just with that particular card but NVidias latest batch, there seem to be a fair few which need a bit extra in the volts department, I doubt an RMA would succeed tbh
 
Is the card OC from factory?

If so then it doesn't surprise me at all. Sounds just like that batch of 6970s MSI were selling that weren't stable with any sort of OC.

Some one needs to get their quality control working methinks.
 
95thrifles said:
You'll be able to OC a bit, believe 1.1 is completely safe and 1.15 is also meant to be safe too (though some claim contrary)
As you say its a widespread problem, not just with that particular card but NVidias latest batch, there seem to be a fair few which need a bit extra in the volts department, I doubt an RMA would succeed tbh
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Mmmm. So you really think an RMA is out of the question for a card which won't run out of the box with no overclock then?

Gets 70.6% in the ASIC quality test BTW.
 
Not out of the question as such, but if as I suspect it works fine 99% of time and only crashes occasionally and unpredictably, as seems to be the case with these issues, then if you RMA and they test and find no fault, youve incurred the expense of postage to and form them for the sake of adding a few more millivolts
 
I had the exact same issue with my gigabyte 560ti, but with a bios flash 5 months ish ago, touch wood, all rock solid (the bios flash upped the volts).
The volts you have added, will have no bearing on lifespan of the card and will only increase your gaming time :)
 
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