GTX 570 crash, or something else?

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I'm 90% sure my card crashed. Before I spend $300+ on a new card, I wanted to verify it actually was the video card, as this crash seemed a little different. Is quite annoying since black Friday is so close.

Graphics: EVGA GTX 570 OC
SSD/windows drive: Crucial C300 (original firmware from when I got it in Jan 2011, known to have issues)
Mobo: Asus p67 (rev 1, aka with the cougar point issue)

I've had video cards crash on me in the past, but this crash seems different. Specifically, there is extreme artifacting even when the bios is loading, etc, and nothing loads remotely correctly (graphically), even after I uninstall the drivers. Usually in the past, things works mostly ok in 2d even with a crashed card.

As for the SSD, I had the system hang issues associated with early crucial C300 firmware. The odd thing, however, is the fact ~7gb of data seemed to disappear, and windows backups won't restore (I have deleted service pack update files, not sure if that did it.) I may try to do a clean install of windows. I was at 2-3gb/59.5 before the crash and 10.5gb/59.5 after.

I doubt cougar point is an issue, as I use the Sata III.

Is there any chance it was the SSD, or anything other than the card just crashing? I don't think so, but I don't want to buy a new video card and have it not work.

 
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The crash happened during everquest1. Hardly a graphically intensive game (but it is surprisingly CPU intensive, and has some odd/arcane coding), I was playing 2 instances of it tabbing back and forth. When I loaded up the 2nd instance, I had some artifacts on only the second instance, then my comp froze. I had a youtube video playing at the same time. When I restarted, I loaded up the 2 instances again w/o anything else running and everything seemed fine, but when it crashed the 2nd time (without artifact beforehand), that's when the crashed seemed to be the hardware.

I had a crash with Deux Ex: HR last year that botched my drivers, but a clean install fixed that, and I generally had issues with Deus Ex: HR that seemed tied to DX11, but just for that particular. Far Cry 3 froze up a few times on me this year, and is perhaps the only game where I had major artifacts before a crash/freeze. I updated drivers a few months ago and the install didn't go 100% perfect, it took away system tray icon. I updated to 331.65 a few days ago, and the system tray issue was still there, but I didn't have any problems until today.

Generally speaking, the EVGA GTX 570 'was' the most stable card I've had. I never had any issues that I know were due to the card until ~2 years into it with the Deux Ex crash. I have had crashes since then, but they've been pretty infrequent. The freezes had picked up a bit in the past 6 months, but still only ~2/month... until today. For the AMD cards I used to have, 2/month would have been super stable.
 
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Intel 2500k, OC'd to 4.5ghz on stock voltage.

RAM is corsair vengeance 8gb 1600, not overclocked (I had some stability issues when it was OC'd to 1866)

PSU is a Corsair 750w. It's plenty for my system, but it's the oldest part. It's from Jan 2009. I know Corsair PSUs are reliable, but 4.5+ years is a long time. I may try switching the PCI power cables, no clue if different cables are tied to different rails, or something. Sucks I don't have another computer handy to check parts with.
 
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I got an EVGA GTX 770 SC today, and my system is working again. So as far as I can see, it was the graphics card.

With the dead GTX 570, no programs could even detect the GPU and it couldn't even display every color in a low bit VGA mode. I couldn't even launch solitaire, much as less unigine.

One thing I find weird about the GTX 770 is that in EVGA precision X, the power % is being changed rapidly. When the GPU runs at full speeds in games and I look at precision X, it's constantly fluctuated somewhere in the range of 70%-90%, but it never goes to 100%.... at least thus far.

Is that something new/normal with GTX 770? Or could it be my power supply not giving it enough power?

I tried to google about this, but the only info I can find is about GTX 780 and Titan, which is different GPU tech.... but the power seems more constant in the precision power log.

Here's what I mean:

uniginebenchmark_zps843439e1.png
 
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