Should I RMA my EVGA 780ti kingpin card?

leecherman · Jun 2, 2015

I bought it last year and face no problems during my usage all that time,
but recently I've noticed a strange behavior while playing heavy games like the Witcher 3 or GTA V or Cysis 3 ( also happens with other heavy games with v-sync disabled )
the card exceed it's limit and reached 1202mhz without any Overclocking made and the OC switch is off ( I have tried all NVIDIA drivers and reinstalled the system, tried with no background apps running and tried more than one monitoring apps, EVGA PrecisionX, MSI after burner, GPU-Z (with log enabled) all the same results showing the GPU core exceed to 1202Mhz then crash immediately )
then the game freeze and crash ( sometime it displays driver recovered from crash ) and sometimes causing a black screen and I have to hard reset the computer!!! ( the GPU temperature never exceed 85C )
this model is caped by factory at 1073mhz/1173mhz boost mode, so how it can reach 1202mhz?
any thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks

mattenthehat · Jun 2, 2015

Sounds like buggy drivers to me. I would contact EVGA and see what they suggest.

leecherman · Jun 2, 2015

mattenthehat :

Thanks for reply mattenthehat,i've tried many drivers versions,still the same issues,and still waiting for EVGA's reply.

mattenthehat · Jun 2, 2015

leecherman :

In the mean time while you're waiting for EVGA's reply: I don't have a ton of experience with Nvidia cards, so I could be wrong, but I THINK I've heard of them going to other weird clock settings than the quoted boost clock, just depending on load types, so it may be normal for your card to boost up the way it does. Out of curiosity, what PSU do you have? It could be that your GPU isn't receiving quite as much power as it needs, which is causing the crashes.

Sergeant_Sneaky · Jun 2, 2015

mattenthehat :

leecherman :

In the mean time while you're waiting for EVGA's reply: I don't have a ton of experience with Nvidia cards, so I could be wrong, but I THINK I've heard of them going to other weird clock settings than the quoted boost clock, just depending on load types, so it may be normal for your card to boost up the way it does. Out of curiosity, what PSU do you have? It could be that your GPU isn't receiving quite as much power as it needs, which is causing the crashes.

My GTX 970 was meant to come out the box at I think 1175? It ended up boosting to 1304.

leecherman · Jun 2, 2015

mattenthehat :

leecherman :

In the mean time while you're waiting for EVGA's reply: I don't have a ton of experience with Nvidia cards, so I could be wrong, but I THINK I've heard of them going to other weird clock settings than the quoted boost clock, just depending on load types, so it may be normal for your card to boost up the way it does. Out of curiosity, what PSU do you have? It could be that your GPU isn't receiving quite as much power as it needs, which is causing the crashes.

Sorry for late reply,i have Thermaltake Toughpower XT 775watt, it handled my old hd6990 flawlessly.

leecherman · Jun 2, 2015

Sergeant_Sneaky :

mattenthehat :

My GTX 970 was meant to come out the box at I think 1175? It ended up boosting to 1304.

Also an EVGA brand?

Sergeant_Sneaky · Jun 2, 2015

leecherman :

Sergeant_Sneaky :

mattenthehat :

My GTX 970 was meant to come out the box at I think 1175? It ended up boosting to 1304.

Also an EVGA brand?

Nope, Palit Reference model.

leecherman · Jun 2, 2015

i see,so this issue happens to 780ti whatever is the manufacturer brand.

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