- Apr 20, 2013
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So exactly one year after buying an EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC, it died on me-after entering a game or going to watch a high-res video the display would cut off then the pc would reboot.
I contacted evga and the support rep suggested that maybe my psu was feeding the card bad voltages. I monitored them from both the bios and with HWMonitor and the +12V reading never dipped below 11.6V. So I ended up rma-ing the card.
Horrifyingly enough, when the replacement came I got another problem. When I tried running a game, a few minutes in I would get nasty artifacts ALL over the screen. I tried:
-reseating the card
-using a different PCIe slot
-using a different monitor
All of which to no avail. Is there another component that can be causing this or did I truly get terrible luck and received a faulty card?
Edit: For the record the card isn't overheating.
PC specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8320
Cooler: Cooler MAster Hyper 212 PLUS
Mobo: ASUS M5A990FX PRO R2.0
psu: Corsair GS700
HDD: WD Blue 1TB
RAM: Kingston 4GB x2
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
I contacted evga and the support rep suggested that maybe my psu was feeding the card bad voltages. I monitored them from both the bios and with HWMonitor and the +12V reading never dipped below 11.6V. So I ended up rma-ing the card.
Horrifyingly enough, when the replacement came I got another problem. When I tried running a game, a few minutes in I would get nasty artifacts ALL over the screen. I tried:
-reseating the card
-using a different PCIe slot
-using a different monitor
All of which to no avail. Is there another component that can be causing this or did I truly get terrible luck and received a faulty card?
Edit: For the record the card isn't overheating.
PC specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8320
Cooler: Cooler MAster Hyper 212 PLUS
Mobo: ASUS M5A990FX PRO R2.0
psu: Corsair GS700
HDD: WD Blue 1TB
RAM: Kingston 4GB x2
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
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