GTX 660 Bad Card?

AEvans190

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Hello everyone...

I am trying to determine if my gtx 660 SC is bad before it is too late to return it...

After running heaven 4.0 the computer freezes and I usually have to restart it after the first pass or so...

here is my build:
Msi z97 gaming 7
I7 4770k with hyper 212 evo cooler
cosair vengeance pre series 16 gb
GeForce gtx 660 sc
Rosewill Blackhawk case
Xfx Xtr 650 psu

Here is one of my posts from another thread..

"Still no go... It seemed to work a little better after I switched slots but still crashing... I was also reading the manual for my mobo... I orginally had it in the wrong slot. I thought the pci2 slot was the second bigger pcie slot (not including the smaller pcie slot). But it meant the Second slot down (so the first biggest slot) anyways.... When I play csgo or watchdogs the driver crashes. After playing for a while. During csgo the screen turns black for about 5 secs the the game recovers. With watchdogs the game closes and I get the display driver is not responding and has recovered error. Both these issues happen after about 30 mins of use. ... I watched my temps and never really seems to get hot. Cpu stays at about 50-55 and gpu about 60-65. I tried the most recent driver and the beta driver and samething. .. I just want to get all this figured out before I am stuck with all the parts (before Amazon return policy expires)... Thanks everyone!"

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2215411/build.html

My score when it passes is around 500 with heaven 4.0 about 20 fps, I bump up the clock and it does not seem to do anything... Let me know thanks!
 

ichigokunbaka

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try uninstalling driver, run ccleaner registry cleaner, re download drivers 64 bit ,try msi afterburner underclock it 30%, run test if good put is @ 80% of stock seting and step in 5% incraments,keep an eye on temps
 

AEvans190

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I just realized I was running the heaven stress test with 2 monitors ... so my score with one monitor, stock gpu was

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0

FPS:
35.2
Score:
886
Min FPS:
15.7
Max FPS:
87.9
System

Platform:
Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz (3499MHz) x4
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 9.18.13.3788 (2048MB) x1
Settings

Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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I guess that is ok