660oc not happy with looking for improvement upgrade

crazycuda

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Looking for everyone's input on this. I have a gigabyte 660oc and not to happy with it. One of my main quams is I have to under-clock the card to get my art tablet to work and turn off all aa features to even try to use my old version of blender or nothing but graphic glitches. Ive talked with a few others who have had the same card and similar issues so at the toss up on going amd or staying with nvidia on a replacement card. Anyone have any suggestions on what would be a step up with hopefully no aggravations like im experiencing.

system specs are
I3770k
asus z77 mb
16gig ram
win 7
2 250 wd raptures raid 0
2 600 wd raptures storage
700 watt ps (seasonic)
 
Maybe the card is faulty? have you tried to contact the manufacturer of the card for support? I have no issues with my 660's, but i dont use blender or anything like that. With the vast amount of hardware and software combinations available, sometimes things just don't work as expected, you may just need to swap to a different card. One thing i did have to do with my cards in particular games, was disable boost clock. with nvidia inspector you can force a constant clock, i found the boost clock was causing crashes in a couple of games.
 

crazycuda

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UPDATE
Had to get the card warrantied out 2 times (they said it was overheating issues causing the dilemma) Still no avail gave the card to the wife for her pc works fine for her games and stuff.
I picked up an evga 660 my issues were fixed. Now I'm thinking should I find another evga referb 660oc and sli it. Autodesk suggests a 690 nvidia due to the high number of cuda cores for rendering but thats way out of my price range. Right now after picking up 2-256gig mx100's (could not pass up the deal 2 for one basically)
money it tight