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GTX970 - fault

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I have been experiencing intermittent problems with my graphics card for the past couple of months. It first started out by totally locking the PC with no errors forcing me to hard reset the PC. I have been trying loads of different things but recently i decided to install windows 7 and now i get the error "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Using MSI burner I have dropped the core and memory clocks by 100 which seems to prevent the crash from happening but the image just seems a bit jumpy and not a very good expirience at all. I am convinced there is a problem with my graphics card but I don't know how to proove it to get a replacement, 3D mark scores come out very high with no problems at all. Anyone come across this or have any suggestions?
 
Can you try the card in another system and if possible monitor & cable.

Also what are your full systems specs including PSU.
 
I don't have another computer to try that unfortunately. If i switch to my on-board graphics card everything works fine but naturally there is not a lot of grunt behind the onboard card so games run incredibly slowly.


MotherBoard - Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
Memory: Kingston HyperX 8192MB DDR3 RAM
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
PSU - SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
 
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