Think my 670GTX just died....

Boomstick777 · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:16

Nice post putting up all the info on stability etc, I have seen lots of posts now of dead cards on Nvidia 320.18. So far Nvidia have done nothing and the drivers are still live, I don't understand that at all tbh.

Hope you get a replacement sorted soon.

Diagro · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:22

Rma and ask for an amd card

a66as · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:25

this is getting me scared now, might ave to go back to 314.22 myself

Random Guy · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:28

Damn! Sorry about your card. Even though I have not had a single issue so far on my 680s, I will roll back tonight.

Gregster · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:29

Boomstick777 said:
Nice post putting up all the info on stability etc, I have seen lots of posts now of dead cards on Nvidia 320.18. So far Nvidia have done nothing and the drivers are still live, I don't understand that at all tbh.

Hope you get a replacement sorted soon.

Looking at it from an Nvidia point of view, if they pull the drivers, they are effectively admitting there is a problem and as such, open themselves up for claims. Anyone with sense or cared about their customers would pull the drivers but don't forget it is Nvidia we are talking about. I have seen so many claims now, I am finding it hard to see these cards failing as anything other than a **** ** by Nvidia and they need to sort this quick or they will lose a massive amount of fans.

After the first couple of reports, I found it hard to believe but after seeing the amount now, I feel there could be something that is ruining these cards. Certainly to many cases to be classed as coincidence.

LtMatt · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:33

Gregster said:
Looking at it from an Nvidia point of view, if they pull the drivers, they are effectively admitting there is a problem and as such, open themselves up for claims. Anyone with sense or cared about their customers would pull the drivers but don't forget it is Nvidia we are talking about. I have seen so many claims now, I am finding it hard to see these cards failing as anything other than a **** ** by Nvidia and they need to sort this quick or they will lose a massive amount of fans.

After the first couple of reports, I found it hard to believe but after seeing the amount now, I feel there could be something that is ruining these cards. Certainly to many cases to be classed as coincidence.

Fair play and +1.

Although i annoyed people with posting that thread, it may well have saved some people and started to spread awareness round here as before that there was no mention of it here despite being everywhere on the internet.

illuz · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:33

Gregster said:
Looking at it from an Nvidia point of view, if they pull the drivers, they are effectively admitting there is a problem and as such, open themselves up for claims. Anyone with sense or cared about their customers would pull the drivers but don't forget it is Nvidia we are talking about. I have seen so many claims now, I am finding it hard to see these cards failing as anything other than a **** ** by Nvidia and they need to sort this quick or they will lose a massive amount of fans.

After the first couple of reports, I found it hard to believe but after seeing the amount now, I feel there could be something that is ruining these cards. Certainly to many cases to be classed as coincidence.

I read somewhere about them changing the voltage regulation tables within the drivers, which causes it (on older fermi cards) to over-volt the GPU and thus fry it.

However, this doesn't explain why kepler cards are dying... Time to go back to old drivers, simply *cannot* risk it.

ImMrChris · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:34

I've always been an Nvidia fanboy and i'll still be one

This palit ran hot since the day i got it maybe the 320.18's are tipping the not so good cards over the edge?

ubersonic · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:34

Gregster said:
After the first couple of reports, I found it hard to believe but after seeing the amount now, I feel there could be something that is ruining these cards. Certainly to many cases to be classed as coincidence.

Agree with this, it sounded silly/far fetched at first but it seems there is a definite link between the installation of this driver and card issues/death.

Boomstick777 said:
I have seen lots of posts now of dead cards on Nvidia 320.18. So far Nvidia have done nothing and the drivers are still live, I don't understand that at all tbh.

If they pull them then its basically admitting fault in the customers eyes and the damage to their reputation will be done, nobody will care if it turns out it wasn't their fault, hopefully they can get to the bottom of this sooner rather than later though and confirm either way where the fault lies.

LtMatt · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:36

This is the difference with AMD and Nvidia IMO. AMD admit to their faults, Nvidia will use PR to try and cover theirs up. The crossfire latency issue is a prime example of this. AMD came out and openly admitted to some issues before it all came to light and said they are actively working towards a a fix and gave a rough time line. I think thats something to be applauded, personally.

Gregster · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:39

LtMatt said:
Fair play and +1.

Although i annoyed people with posting that thread, it may well have saved some people and started to spread awareness round here as before that there was no mention of it here despite being everywhere on the internet.

At the time, I read your thread as nothing more than a jump on Nvidia and without substance but now it was maybe a good thing. I shall be sticking with these drivers though, as my second Titan is a crap clocker

illuz said:
I read somewhere about them changing the voltage regulation tables within the drivers, which causes it (on older fermi cards) to over-volt the GPU and thus fry it.

However, this doesn't explain why kepler cards are dying... Time to go back to old drivers, simply *cannot* risk it.

I can understand with the Fermi but Kepler is hard locked on volts and unable to be changed with software. After seeing the images floating about, I am more inclined to thing it is the memory modules that are failing due to something in the drivers. No idea what but most seem to talk of corruption prior to the failing and that is normally linked with VRAM.

LtMatt · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:40

Gregster said:
At the time, I read your thread as nothing more than a jump on Nvidia and without substance but now it was maybe a good thing. I shall be sticking with these drivers though, as my second Titan is a crap clocker

If you look at my OP though all i did was copy the news article from that website. However i also included the solution to remove the drivers as well as a link to my own thread with a full version of Driver Fusion to remove all traces of the 320.18 drivers from a pc.

ubersonic · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:44

LtMatt said:
This is the difference with AMD and Nvidia IMO. AMD admit to their faults, Nvidia will use PR to try and cover theirs up. The crossfire latency issue is a prime example of this. AMD came out and openly admitted to some issues before it all came to light and said they are actively working towards a a fix and gave a rough time line. I think thats something to be applauded, personally.

Peoples personal experiences/opinions are subjective though, not everyone has the same experience with the same company, looking at this situation another way, Nvida acknowledged that people were having issues straight away and went out of their way to try and get a head start on fault finding. By comparison AMD recently had major issues with one of the most popular games going for roughly a year and ignored it publicly.

A better way to look at it is both companies have their bad moments and their good moments, just like any other company

(except EA)

Neil79 · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:53

ImMrChris said:
320.18

Did you install them before or after I told people NOT to install them for this and many other reasons? :confused:

Sorry to hear about your card, I know what it's like to have a dead GPU

Gregster · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:55

They may not have any stock left of the 6 series (discontinued line) and the next replacement would be the 770?

ImMrChris · 12 Jun 2013 at 11:16

Neil79 said:
Did you install them before or after I told people NOT to install them for this and many other reasons?

Sorry to hear about your card, I know what it's like to have a dead GPU

I didn't even know about these issues before my card went pop only while searching for answers it all became apparent lesson learnt...

check feedback before updating drivers in future :rolleyes:

ImMrChris · 12 Jun 2013 at 11:18

Gregster said:
They may not have any stock left of the 6 series (discontinued line) and the next replacement would be the 770?

hehe that'd be nice i only upgraded from a 570GTX for triple screens now im stuck with my old 460GTX till this gets sorted grrrrrr

my card is now on it's way to OcUK as it was a "B" grade it'll prolly take forever :mad:

humbug · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:00

LtMatt said:
Fair play and +1.

Although i annoyed people with posting that thread, it may well have saved some people and started to spread awareness round here as before that there was no mention of it here despite being everywhere on the internet.

+1 and +1 to greg to

andybird123 · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:08

ImMrChris said:
hehe that'd be nice i only upgraded from a 570GTX for triple screens now im stuck with my old 460GTX till this gets sorted grrrrrr

my card is now on it's way to OcUK as it was a "B" grade it'll prolly take forever

when did you buy it?
if you bought it within 90 days (e.g. OCUK's stated warranty period on B-Grade cards) then it shouldn't take any longer than a few days, as mentioned, the problem will be that they might not have a direct replacement available and I don't know what their process is for replacing B-grades - it might just be a case of getting a refund

ImMrChris · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:14

Ordered January 22nd 2013 OcUK said they'll send it back to Palit and see what they say......

i wont hold my breath if it was just OcUK dealing with it it'd be sorted in a few days but put Palit in the mix..... tumbleweed no doubt :rolleyes: