Graphics Card only works for about 17 mins at a time

Eric Gibson

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Computer Components:
Intel Core i3- 2120 @ 3.30 Ghz
EVGA SC GTX 760
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EVGA 100-W1-500-KR 500W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified
Crucial 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
3x Crucial 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
Acer IPIMB-AR Intel B75 Motherboard
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 - Bit Operating System



Problem:

I bought a gigabyte gtx 650 ti, Crucial 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 and a Rosewill Stallion Series RD450-2-DB 450W about 3 months ago and added them to my system. Everything was working fine until about 3 weeks ago. All of a sudden the games I'd usually play at decent frames stopped working right. I went from about 70 fps in League of Legends to 6 fps, from 60fps in Rust to 5fps, 30fps in Dayz to 2fps. i tried all the customer services things from Nvida, Newegg and Gigabyte and they told me to get a new graphics card. So i got a new graphics card, the gtx 760 and a new power supply, the EVGA 500w, but it is still doing the same thing except for one difference, everything works fine for 17 minutes after the computer boots up. After those 17 minutes it does what it was doing before I got the new stuff. I tried reinstalling all the drivers, i tried beta drivers as well and scanned the computer for any viruses and I do not have any. I ran out of ideas and any help would be appreciated.
 
Solution
Start with testing your RAM. Looks like you have a mix of RAM and occasionally they won't play well together. Try running with just the 3 x 2GB sticks in the system. Then just the 4GB. Crucial helped me match RAM for a former build, told me the one stick I had would work with the other three and they did, but not in dual channel mode.
Also, run memtest 86 and see if it finds any errors.
That was the starting point.
It could very well be your motherboard. I suspect that something on the board is no longer tolerant of heat, and when the board heats up, or the power drops a little due to the PSU warming up, then that mobo component fails.
If the board has any warranty left you could try contacting Acer, see if they can help.
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How is your PC case set up? Sound characteristic of overheating problems.

Massively reduces FPS is often related to CPU or GPU throttling, decreasing speed to prevent hardware damage.

Try downloading speedfan and core temp and let us know what your CPU/GPU temps are reaching.
 
Start with testing your RAM. Looks like you have a mix of RAM and occasionally they won't play well together. Try running with just the 3 x 2GB sticks in the system. Then just the 4GB. Crucial helped me match RAM for a former build, told me the one stick I had would work with the other three and they did, but not in dual channel mode.
Also, run memtest 86 and see if it finds any errors.
That was the starting point.
It could very well be your motherboard. I suspect that something on the board is no longer tolerant of heat, and when the board heats up, or the power drops a little due to the PSU warming up, then that mobo component fails.
If the board has any warranty left you could try contacting Acer, see if they can help.
In rare instances it may even be the CPU, but that should be the last thing to check.
 
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Are you using the 335.23 drivers? I've had erratic behaviour on that driver. Borderlands 2 crashes, poor framerate and reported video hardware errors. Maybe try a previous driver that you know worked rather than any newer ones. I'm using Asus GTX 760
 


Yes ^+1. I forgot about overheating (Duh:??:).