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560Ti Issues

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Hey there.

I bought my 560Ti late last year, in December and haven't had a brilliant experience with it as a card. The drivers were often broken, performance yields have been nowhere near what they should have been (Until overclocking) and I'm going to avoid the 60 series of cards from now on as a result of this card.

So, basically, I've been OC'ing the card for the last 2-3 months and the last few days the performance of the card has taken a noticeable drop when gaming.

I've been running the card at 1000 Core clock, with no problems, and at 1.1mv voltage. That is the limit I've found for my card. The other day I went to play BF3 on the Armoured Shield map and found my FPS yields to be pretty bad, even when settings were reduced. Sitting around the 30 mark. This is with only about 4 people on the map, on a private server. After that I saw mass artifacting and figured the card was conking out, so I reduced my clocks and it stopped.

However, ever since the performance of the card just hasn't been the same, it never was good at stock clocks if I'm honest, BF3 is stuttering a lot, even on small maps at medium settings and I'm not getting the 60fps I should be. It's got to the point where it can be completely unplayable. The temps are only at about 60-63 in this case. Sleeping Dogs was crashing with the GPU around 75-76 degrees, something I've never seen before. I'd get to this certain part in a mission, and not at an exact point, the GPU would conk out within the range of about 1 or 2 minutes of this part of a mission. I tried several times with the same result. Planetside 2 is also running like crap, even at low settings.

Under normal circumstances on the Desktop, I have no crashes, but this sucks. I can't really game properly due to the card doing this.

Is there a health test I can do, and how would I go about RMAing the card? It's an ASUS 560Ti Direct CUII 1GB GDDR5 card and it's under a year old.

I have also recently switched to Windows 8 and games WERE performing fine, up until now. I was using 310.54 beta and reverted to 310.33 and both drivers are running quite badly.

Just as a side note, I did a FurMark bench and put the settings up and saw no artifacting, not within the time I was watching anyway, and temperatures were within the low 80s... This threw me off a bit.

If someone could help me it'd be appreciated, thanks.

- Ross
 
Hi Ross, both those drivers you mention are awful. I run SLI 680's and have found them to be nothing but problematic. I would advise using 306.23 for the best experience.

310.33/51/61 have been a stutter fest with lower performance all round for me. I have just installed the 310.64 drivers to see if these improve performance but so far, not impressed...Looks like I will be going back to 306.23 also :(
 
Using a Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.5GHz and a 750W PSU by N0vatech (The name was censored, don't ask why).

Vsync won't make a difference, use of it varies.
There's your problem right there for the crashes. That cheap PSU is not good enough for your gaming system. I looked up the spec of that particular PSU on their website, and it only got 20A on the 12v rail, so it would only deliver 240W over the 12v rail. And assume that IF it really can deliver the full 240W on the 12v rail as the spec claims (and the chance are they don't), 240W is not enough for your GTX560Ti and your Phenom II X4 (plus other things that may also run on that rail).

Do yourself a favour, upgrade to a better, more reliable PSU. A generic brand PSU can label 2000W on the box, but with low and unreliable output (particularly on the 12v rail) they are still rubbish for a gaming system.
 
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There's your problem right there for the crashes. That cheap PSU is not good enough for your gaming system. I looked up the spec of that particular PSU on their website, and it only got 20A on the 12v rail, so it would only deliver 240W over the 12v rail. And assume that IF it really can deliver the full 240W on the 12v rail as the spec claims (and the chance are they don't), 240W is not enough for your GTX560Ti and your Phenom II X4 (plus other things that may also run on that rail).

Do yourself a favour, upgrade to a better, more reliable PSU. A generic brand PSU can label 2000W on the box, but with low and unreliable output (particularly on the 12v rail) they are still rubbish for a gaming system.

My PSU should be fine. If the GPU worked before, it would work now.

http://www.********.co.uk/products/components/powersupplies/nov-psb750.html

This one.

I'll try those drivers too.
 
I'm using 306.97 with a single card, seems OK?

I would stick with the devil you know till you hear other wise bud. By all means try the new drivers and if you see problems, roll back to the stable ones. Each system is different and will get different results.

If I am honest, gaming wise I couldn't tell the odds between 306.97 and 306.23. Only benchmarks showed me slightly less performance.
 
560Ti is a low-mid range gaming card that is one generation old.

Battlefield 3 is a relatively new game, which is notouriously demanding, especially of graphics card RAM.

If you are playing Battlefield 3 at 1080p with a 560Ti, I certainly wouldn't expect 60fps at max settings at all...

You need a decent gaming card with 2GB RAM (minimum) to come anywhere close to 60 fps in this game.

And yes, if you are seeing artifacting, it is likely that your graphics card is overheating and / or fried. Cranking up the volts on a graphics card is not particularly safe, it drastically increases temperatures & shortens the lifespan of the card...

If you have been overclocking the card, especially by cranking up the volts, your card will not be valid under warranty or for an RMA...
 
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And yes, if you are seeing artifacting, it is likely that your graphics card is overheating and / or fried. Cranking up the volts on a graphics card is not particularly safe, it drastically increases temperatures & shortens the lifespan of the card...

If you have been overclocking the card, especially by cranking up the volts, your card will not be valid under warranty or for an RMA...

Welcome to Overclockers UK Forums:D:D:D
 
Welcome to Overclockers UK Forums:D:D:D

I'm all for overclocking, within reason.

If you are going to be messing with voltages, especially on graphics cards, you need to be aware that a) these cards are generally released with a locked voltage for a good reason, b) increasing with a 3rd party program WILL shorten the life of your product and c) it will void any potential refund options / warranty / RMA

You can get plenty of extra bang for buck by overclocking a graphics card without going anywhere near the volts, I wouldn't recommend touching voltages unless a) you are a professional system builder or b) you are an experienced overclocking enthusiast going for the highest benchmark achievable.

:3
 
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I'm all for overclocking, within reason.

If you are going to be messing with voltages, especially on graphics cards, you need to be aware that a) these cards are generally released with a locked voltage for a good reason, b) increasing with a 3rd party program WILL shorten the life of your product and c) it will void any potential refund options / warranty / RMA

You can get plenty of extra bang for buck by overclocking a graphics card without going anywhere near the volts, I wouldn't recommend touching voltages unless a) you are a professional system builder or b) you are an experienced overclocking enthusiast going for the highest benchmark achievable.

:3

To be honest I never overclock to play games.

Having said that overclocking can be fun for the enthusiast, but yes they should be aware of everything you have pointed out above in the way of pitfalls.
 
I'm all for overclocking, within reason.

If you are going to be messing with voltages, especially on graphics cards, you need to be aware that a) these cards are generally released with a locked voltage for a good reason, b) increasing with a 3rd party program WILL shorten the life of your product and c) it will void any potential refund options / warranty / RMA

You can get plenty of extra bang for buck by overclocking a graphics card without going anywhere near the volts, I wouldn't recommend touching voltages unless a) you are a professional system builder or b) you are an experienced overclocking enthusiast going for the highest benchmark achievable.

:3

do you work for nvidia?

Head of the green light initiative perhaps?

LOL
 
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