GTX 560TI dying...please suggest replacement card!

Jankir

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I have been experiencing flickering squares on my pc followed by driver crashing. Updated drivers to 327.23. Worked fine for a while till tonight when my screen went completely frozen with screen artifacts everywhere. I suspect that my GTX 560 TI is on its last legs. I don't play much games on the pc (comp passed to me by relative), but do work on photo editing with photoshop, etc. Please help suggest a decent graphics card on a budget. Thanks!
 
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It's a 560 Ti, of course it's PCI-Express, the best AGP card was the ATI Radeon 4670 AGP years ago

All of those cards listed are actually weaker than the 560 Ti

A nice replacement upgrade would be the Radeon 7850 or GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB cards which are excellent budget gaming cards

I would try reverting drivers or updating (clean install) to the latest to see if these problems exist, the 320.xx drivers have been known to cause issues with 500 series cards. But given the fact with screen artifacts a replacement would be necessary if driver changing doesn't help you

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162132
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127727
turn the pc off..check that the gpu fan not clogged with dust or the power supply. with the gpu take the ser# down and the vendor info check to see if the card under warranty. you might get lucky and find out it still is.
if the motherboard has pci and not agp video card.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-eah6450silentdi1gd3lp
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-ax77501gbk3h
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r77901gd5oc
the last card would be the same speed in games as your 650 ti card.
 
It's a 560 Ti, of course it's PCI-Express, the best AGP card was the ATI Radeon 4670 AGP years ago

All of those cards listed are actually weaker than the 560 Ti

A nice replacement upgrade would be the Radeon 7850 or GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB cards which are excellent budget gaming cards

I would try reverting drivers or updating (clean install) to the latest to see if these problems exist, the 320.xx drivers have been known to cause issues with 500 series cards. But given the fact with screen artifacts a replacement would be necessary if driver changing doesn't help you

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162132
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127727
 
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Jankir

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Thank you both for your suggestions. I got the gtx 660 after some research and find it fitting my needs. Hope no problems with this one!
 

GUNNY1966

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"I was going to suggest the following but see you have already selected the GTX 660".
Don't get in such a hurry to replace the Graphics card yet, there are things to check prior to just jumping ship & replacing it.
? QUESTIONS ? / SUGGESTIONS:
( 1 ) Do you have CPU-Z? If not get it & run it & create a validation so we know exactly what card you have, it's pretty simple just read the instructions & select the correct version. In the Graphics tab of CPU-Z / CPUID we can find the information needed to possibly correct your issue with the GTX 560ti
LINK: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
I have three of the EVGA GTX560ti cards & never had any problems at all! ? QUESTION ? What is the Serial Number on the card if it is EVGA, KR cards are Lifetime Warranty! If interested in getting rid of it & it is a KR series card, I might take it off your hands if your interested in getting rid of it! Send me a reply if this is the case!