ASUS GTX 660Ti... is it defective?

Usoppun Sama

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Jan 12, 2014
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Hello everyone,

Few days ago I got a brand new ASUS GTX 660Ti and went to a PC service store to get it installed, the lady told me "We even installed you the latest drivers." So when I tried some games on it, they would all have graphical glitches, some didn't, like:

Alliance of Valiant Arms
MX vs ATV REFLEX
Lord of The Rings: War in the North

I tested Skyrim, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Firefall and TERA

I should be able to play them maxed out, but I can't play them at all - they would crash my video card and crash themselves, they look like this:

Far Cry 3 PC Graphic Glitch GTX660Ti

Even Google Maps is glitching on me:



and here is how Skyrim looks, I managed to play the game for like 10 minutes, then it crashes, and it was glitching the whole time:





I was advised to try different driver revisions, but to avail, I was also using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64, and now switched to Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 in hopes of fixing the issues, but there is no difference, my guess is that the graphics card is defective.

On google search I see people saying that this could be overheating, well in my case it's not:



On another forum I was advised to return it, but I would like to hear your advise as well.