graphics card driver keeps failing

[smiithers42x]

So on the 18th of December iv bought myself GTX 650 DirectCU 1GB GDDR5, since then i couldn't get the full gaming experience.. recently i got Battlefield 3. And after the and after a longer gaming sesh (2-3) with my mates i get this effect on the screen:

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Then within 5-20sec my battlefield crashed and i get a windows window saying some graphics drivers have failed and are recovered now. so right first thing in my head is drivers.... so i go and check for drivers im all up to date... kind of forgot about it told my self it just a random crash and will not happen again...
but it did... next thing poped up into my head is heat, might be over heating... so i wack the GPU fan to 100% (GPU tweak) before a game of battlefield... played 3 hours 12 minutes (timed) and bam same effect and the drivers fail... temperature said max 54... (was max 68 with automatic fan speed)... next thing i did is rewire my whole system clean it blow dust out and stuff like that... Nope same happens again.. so i google some stuff and it comes up that it might be most prob GPU problem not my system? any thoughts from you guys/ladies out here what it could be? or what could i try or do ?


For the reference my system is:
GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H
Intel i5 3570K 3.8GHz
Kingston HyperX Blu 2GB x4 (8GB) 1333MHz
GTX 650 DirectCU 1GB GDDR5
CoolMaster 550W PSU


Please say any thoughts might help me

 

[smiithers42x]

Card is standard... rolled back to the old drivers nothing happened reinstalled all the drivers nothing happened.... ive updated the bios and will give another go at it today see if it still crashes

 

[smiithers42x]

well my is an asus card, driver version is nvlddmkm / 9.18.13.1422 (im using ASUS GPU Tweak)

and this is what EVGA OC Scanner shows me:

Stress test been running for 5 minutes no problem at all

Did you manage to solve your problem? or is there no solution to it?

 

[smiithers42x]

It happened to me on The Saints Row The Third after some time playing .... and Far Cry and Arma 3

 

[smiithers42x]

Well ill try lowering the clocks and the vram too and see what happens... im at work at the moment so ill chech it later on today thanks guys

 

[smiithers42x]

Well that seem to fixed it... lovered all voltage and core by 2%