Faulty GTX 970 can't be much else can it?

[Daniee]

Hello everybody. I got this card yesterday from Overclockers:

KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive**


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-010-GX

I've been playing GTA5 all night last night, runs the game nicely. Played for about 4-5 hours then came off.

Went to play Euro Truck Simulator 2, and after 5-10 minutes PC turns off and reboots.

Tried the same again, monitoring temperature 80c - I've looked around online and apparently it's fine to be that. Still get a reboot.

Give up on playing that game, and then go and play Battlefield Hardline for 3-4 hours perfectly fine. Temperature still ~80c

Tried doing some diagnostics today and got MSI Afterburner.

Tried going back to my old GTX 670 and ETS2 works fine.

Downclocking the GTX 970 by ~150-200 on both core and memory clock ETS2 works fine.

Set fans to 100% at 70c and back to it's standard clocks, temperature got 70c and stayed there but still crash.

All other games I've tested work fine, it's just ETS2 for now.

Is the card faulty or is it ETS2?

I thought it could be the PSU, but apparently a GTX 970 uses less power than GTX 670 according to GeForce.co.uk, 170w for the GTX 670 and 145w for the GTX 970.

I've also tried older drivers and clean install of drivers.



EDIT:

Replaced the PSU, and I think It's fixed the issue, no more crashes or restarts!

 

[~>Dg<~]

if its running at 80c you got a problem. most dont get close.

 

[Tonester0011]

Temps are high, but ultimately fine. We don't know case airflow, ambient to jump to conclusions about operating temps

If it runs all games with the exception of ETS2, then it's not a faulty card. It something with that game, or something else in your system that conflicts with that game.

 

[Daniee]

Temps are high, but ultimately fine. We don't know case airflow, ambient to jump to conclusions about operating temps

If it runs all games with the exception of ETS2, then it's not a faulty card. It something with that game, or something else in your system that conflicts with that game.

As I have said, I can get the game to run fine on the GTX 970 by downclocking it, but should I have to do that to get the game to run without crashing?

 

[Rroff]

What is the rest of the system spec? especially PSU wattage.

The average power use of the 900 series cards is decently low but they can still spike to higher levels and/or be synthetically loaded to draw amounts of power closer to normal for that kind of card.

 

[Daniee]

PSU is Enermax Liberty 620w

Rest of system is:
Intel I5 3570k - at stock
8gb Corsair ram
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
A few hard drives

 

[Rroff]

Hmm "shouldn't" be PSU then - probably not even breaking 350watt draw at the wall in heavy gaming.

 

[Marine-RX179]

What case you use and how's the airflow?

Does it have intake fan at the front or bottom for bringing cool air into the case efficiently for graphic cooler to use?

 

[Daniee]

What case you use and how's the airflow?

Does it have intake fan at the front or bottom for bringing cool air into the case efficiently for graphic cooler to use?

The case is some old basic akasa case, not sure on the model. It has a front intake fan yes. I have no idea how efficient it is.

Keep meaning to get a new one at some point, but I cba to move everything over

I'll mess around in the week with other games and benchmark utilities, if they are all fine and it's just ETS2 I'll just put up with it, and just have to remember to downclock the card if I ever want to play it in future.

GTA 5 crashing now

 

[On Holiday]

Temp are not fine lol..

My 980 has never been above 60 and that's on a quiet fan profile.

OP, are your fans on/adjusting speed ?

 

[fs123]

try a stress test such as heaven or valley to see what temps you get. If games are getting 80C then I reckon it will get hotter than 90C and may even start throttling. If it does then RMA it.

 

[Daniee]

Playing GTA5 now, slightly downclocked the card temps max has been about 77c the fans are spinning, fans are adjusting speed, they are on about 85% when gaming.

I can take the side of the case off and see if that helps? I'll just have to be careful not to put my foot in there.

try a stress test such as heaven or valley to see what temps you get. If games are getting 80C then I reckon it will get hotter than 90C and may even start throttling. If it does then RMA it.

Will do, thanks everyone for all the helps so far.

Edit: Replaced the PSU, I think it's fixed the issue, no more crashes!