Zotac GTX 8800

[wirefan]

Bought mine from Ebay for a reasonable buck but to be honest it hasnt worked since Ive had it. Hard crashes in games at random, regardless of driver. I either get BSOD - Physical memory dump, or get dumped to windows with a Display driver error.

Stupidly, Ive changed every component in my build to try and resolve this (despite the system being OK before the new card was installed)

Changed board to IP35
Changed Mem from Ballistix 6400 2gb to 4gb Reaper from OCZ.
Changed Power supply to OCZ 800W
Removed Soundblaster Xtreme Gamer card

Still getting crashes.

Bizarrely tho, when I took 1gb of mem out when I had the ballistix in, nothing crashed, ever. Thats why I thought it was a memory issue.

Question is... what can I do with the card? I didnt buy it new so can I still send it back to Zotac?

 

[eyetrip]

Have the you checked the temps?

 

[MeatLoaf]

It does sound like its overheating, use something like rivatuner or ntune to monitor temps

 

[J.D]

Aye I agree with the above. I'm getting that in UT3 with 100% fan and no overclock. The only time I've upped my speeds from default is for the Crysis Benchmark. Even CoD4 with 100% fan with default clocks crashed and I had to open my window to play . Oh and happened once in Dirt when I moved the fan that I have blowing air on the back of the card. Once put back it was fine.

Slightly O/T as to my own problem so sorry for hijacking. My card is from OCUK and bought only in December. Is this sounding like an RMA job for me?. I never OC and my card is always on 100% for the fan.