I have an EVGA Nvidia GTX 780 ti SC ACX, the superclocked one with EVGA's fancy fan setup(this one). One day I decided to check Arma 3 out after a long while of not playing. About 2 minutes into the game I started noticing artifacts(made a video). It didn't get much worse as depicted in the video, but the game crashed as well several times. Also got the windows error: "Display device has stopped working and recovered successfully" in the bottom right corner. So I started diagnosing.
Ran GPU-z, HWmonitor and got Unigine Heaven 4.0 benchmark. The benchmark pushes the card to its max(as did Arma 3). About 1 minute into the benchmark the same artifacts start appearing and shortly after that the benchmark stops responding, the screen starts flashing from black to back into the now frozen benchmark until it finally times out and we get the "<application name>.exe has stopped working". Tested again, same thing, I can never get farther than maybe a minute or a half into the benchmark.
Also unigine spit this interesting error once.
GPU-z reports GPU power consumption at 100% when the benchmark is running/playing Arma 3. GPU load is also maxed, ie 99%. Temperatures stay around 78C - 83C(172F - 181F) when playing Arma 3, same for the benchmark, so according to the sensors the card is not overheating. I also physically touched the card, 78-83 is about right.
I also tested my heavily tweaked Dark souls 2, same thing, due to its tweaked nature it pushes that card to its limit and the same artifacts start appearing. Also tested Crysis 3, same thing. Artifacts do not appear when playing non-demanding games(default settings Dark souls 2 for ex. gpu usage is around 56% then, no artifacts appear).
Also tested the card in a completely different computer, same thing, Unigine crashes with artifacts and games have artifacts. I have a Corsair TX750v2 750W and the other computer has a Corsair CX750 also 750W.
So, is the card getting not getting enough power or is it borked? 750W should be plenty for this card. Should I RMA it?
Thank you for your input!
Ran GPU-z, HWmonitor and got Unigine Heaven 4.0 benchmark. The benchmark pushes the card to its max(as did Arma 3). About 1 minute into the benchmark the same artifacts start appearing and shortly after that the benchmark stops responding, the screen starts flashing from black to back into the now frozen benchmark until it finally times out and we get the "<application name>.exe has stopped working". Tested again, same thing, I can never get farther than maybe a minute or a half into the benchmark.
Also unigine spit this interesting error once.
GPU-z reports GPU power consumption at 100% when the benchmark is running/playing Arma 3. GPU load is also maxed, ie 99%. Temperatures stay around 78C - 83C(172F - 181F) when playing Arma 3, same for the benchmark, so according to the sensors the card is not overheating. I also physically touched the card, 78-83 is about right.
I also tested my heavily tweaked Dark souls 2, same thing, due to its tweaked nature it pushes that card to its limit and the same artifacts start appearing. Also tested Crysis 3, same thing. Artifacts do not appear when playing non-demanding games(default settings Dark souls 2 for ex. gpu usage is around 56% then, no artifacts appear).
Also tested the card in a completely different computer, same thing, Unigine crashes with artifacts and games have artifacts. I have a Corsair TX750v2 750W and the other computer has a Corsair CX750 also 750W.
So, is the card getting not getting enough power or is it borked? 750W should be plenty for this card. Should I RMA it?
Thank you for your input!
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