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Faulty G/Card? Win7 Setting? Crap Drivers? Need Advice

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First off I recently built a new Rig beginning of September, All parts were bought from Overclockers.

I'm trying to work out if my G/card is faulty or is there something else making the G/Card to do this.

G/Card in question is Gainwood GTX680 4gb version.

I get this happen in some games

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If I alt tab quick enough I get to see the following in the bottom corner

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(yes I know, my monitor is dusty, after taking that shot I realised I should clean it more on a daily basis :p)

Now the game showing is Shogun 2, but I've had this happen while playing games like Skyrim, BF3, HL2/Garrys Mod. Now the thing is, it isn't constant sometimes I can play for hours and nothing happen other times it happens after 10mins others it'll be couple hours.

Also I can play other games and it not happen at all, I've played Borderlands 2 for hours and its never happened, Minecraft with high rez texturepacks, DCSWorld, those are to name a few, and I've never had any of the above happen.

Usually when it happens If I alt tab I'll get that "Driver has recovered" (like the 2nd image above) and after a couple alt tabs back into the game (usually alt-tabbing back in the FPS is slugish, but I alt-tab a few times and its back to normal FPS) It'll carry on running like normal, sometimes it may crash again but usually it doesn't. Only game that really doesn't like it is Shogun 2, if I alt tab the game doesn't like it and wont Alt-tab back in.

I have AIDA64 Extreme running on my G19 and the temps for my CPU idle at around 27c and never really go over 35c (air cooled) and my G/card idles at around 33c and when playing games doesn't go over 70c (again air cooled) so I don't think its an over heating problem.

I'm running this on the ASUS Extreme V m/board (running the 0704 bios, its not the latest but can't see anything in changelog to do with this problem) with a i7 Ivybridge 3770k 3.5ghz and 16gb Ram, OS is a Win7 Pro 64bit

Nothing is overclocked, everything is running as factory set.


I just can't seem to work out what's causing it, my personal thoughts are if the g/card is faulty why doesn't it do it in every game? and why isn't it constant? which is same reasoning behind it not being a overheating problem.

Then again do I have a faulty one and its only when certain things happen it crashes the driver?

I just wanted to see what others think before I contact Overclockers to RMA the card.
 
Artifacting can be down to gpu memory,I'd try enabling x.m.p for your pc memory if it supports it,that might help
 
Hold on just resizing :) realised there HUGE! I thought the forums would create a sample box with img tags
 
Have you tried different drivers? That warning is normaly a lack of volts and I would RMA the card if the drivers don't sort the issue.
 
Any AMD drivers on the system?

As it was, presumably, working until now, I'd suggest you RMA unless you've only century updated to these drivers.
 
Its been doing it since I installed the card, all the drivers releases since, be it Beta ones or WHQL.

Speaking of power i'm running a 1200W PSU :)

Images are resized now :)

I'm sure X.M.P option is already on with my M/board

No AMD drivers this g/card was the first one put in the machine on the build
 
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See Its been doing this for a while, now I can't recall if its since the build at the start of sept since like I say it doesn't always do it in every game. So tracking down when it first started I can't work out.
 
Can you do a clean windows install on a separate HDD for testing purposes?

Also, try lowering the card's clocks and seeing if it still does it :)
 
Yeah, i've grabbed that EXPERTool from Gainwoods site, I'll lower the clock by a little and see what happens

Lowered the Graphics clock by 100mhz and the memory clock by 500mhz
 
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Well played BF3 for hour or so last night, played Dead Island too for hour last night and this morning and it's not done it yet. Still need more testing since like I said its pretty random when it does it.

Going to give it another couple of days with hopefully some largish gaming sessions on games I know it does it with.
 
Just remember, your RMA will be rejected if OcUK can't replicate the problem. Try furmark and heaven as that's what the OcUK techs will use :)
 
I'll give Futuremark/heaven ago

@old_gamer
I kinda ruled out PSU problem since its really random when it happens and the fact it doesn't happen in every game, if it was PSU problem I think the faults would be a little more consistent, i.e when the card comes under load it'd happen every time. Which unfortunately it doesn't. hence why trying to track this problem down is a pain.
 
Also I can only run the basic version of 3D Mark, which only uses around 500mb of my 4gb VRAM and its only running in P mode (720p) not X mode (1080p) so its not really even running at settings I'd use in a game.
 
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