- Dec 23, 2014
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Hello,
I recently bought a new EVGA NVidia GTX 970 SC from newegg and popped it into my computer, it appeared to be working all nice and dandy but whenever the card gets too much load on it the computer restarts.
I have a 3 monitor, 5760x1080 surround setup that pretty much ensures a restart anytime I start a high graphics game. I found I am able to play games fine on one monitor so at first I thought it was a bad driver that just didn't have good support for surround yet (even though I'm using the newest driver released today), but upon trying minecraft (which I would image has little to no usage of the GPU) the surround feature worked just fine.
I also considered the possibility of it being my PSU not supplying enough power, which considering I got a larger PSU at the same time as this card is very possible. But I upgraded from a 650W to a corsair HX850 which not only is far more than enough power for a single 970 but it also proved itself already as I ran my old gtx770 AND a friends gtx670 together, the 770 running games fine on surround and the 670 running an additional 3 monitors aside from the game.
After that I thought it may be a problem with steam and surround gaming, since all the games I was trying were off steam, so I tried FarCry4 on all maxed out settings (running from Uplay, not steam) and it actually ran fine for about 15 min. but eventually it caused a restart too... I also ran Unigine Heaven Benchmark which ran for a couple minutes, but that crashed it too... the only thing I can thing of is that when the graphics card reaches a high enough load it caused the computer to restart, it's not temperature because it would crash right away running 40C on Portal 2 and keep running for a couple minutes running 70C on the benchmark, so I honestly have no other clue what could be happening.
Do you think my card is faulty somehow? Is there some other test I can do?
Thanks!
I recently bought a new EVGA NVidia GTX 970 SC from newegg and popped it into my computer, it appeared to be working all nice and dandy but whenever the card gets too much load on it the computer restarts.
I have a 3 monitor, 5760x1080 surround setup that pretty much ensures a restart anytime I start a high graphics game. I found I am able to play games fine on one monitor so at first I thought it was a bad driver that just didn't have good support for surround yet (even though I'm using the newest driver released today), but upon trying minecraft (which I would image has little to no usage of the GPU) the surround feature worked just fine.
I also considered the possibility of it being my PSU not supplying enough power, which considering I got a larger PSU at the same time as this card is very possible. But I upgraded from a 650W to a corsair HX850 which not only is far more than enough power for a single 970 but it also proved itself already as I ran my old gtx770 AND a friends gtx670 together, the 770 running games fine on surround and the 670 running an additional 3 monitors aside from the game.
After that I thought it may be a problem with steam and surround gaming, since all the games I was trying were off steam, so I tried FarCry4 on all maxed out settings (running from Uplay, not steam) and it actually ran fine for about 15 min. but eventually it caused a restart too... I also ran Unigine Heaven Benchmark which ran for a couple minutes, but that crashed it too... the only thing I can thing of is that when the graphics card reaches a high enough load it caused the computer to restart, it's not temperature because it would crash right away running 40C on Portal 2 and keep running for a couple minutes running 70C on the benchmark, so I honestly have no other clue what could be happening.
Do you think my card is faulty somehow? Is there some other test I can do?
Thanks!
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