I have had this graphics card for a while now and I can't figure out what's wrong with it. I've had it replaced by the manufacturer once (Zotac) but the problems persisted.
I am wondering now whether it could maybe be a fault with the port on my motherboard but as I have no other PCs to test the components on I am wondering whether there is a way to diagnose exactly what the issue is before I start buying new parts.
It seems that the card doesn't like stress, except its tolerance is very low. My PC (specs below) should be able to run serious games with no issue, but as soon as anything a bit intensive comes up (certain cutscenes, or areas load - in one game, switching the lights on in a room would do the trick) the screen fills with one colour, the sound starts looping and in a couple of seconds the PC restarts itself.
When it boots back up, there's no error messages or anything. I only know it's the graphics card because I tested it on another kit months ago when I had a chance and reproduced a crash that gave me a blue screen with a code that indicated a generic graphics card issue (I'm afraid I don't have the error code anymore but I did google it thoroughly at the time and came up with no details).
Full specs (I don't see how to attach a dxdiag and I'm not sure you'd want it all pasted in here):
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
Processor: AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor ~3.3GHz
RAM: 16GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Thanks for any help!
I am wondering now whether it could maybe be a fault with the port on my motherboard but as I have no other PCs to test the components on I am wondering whether there is a way to diagnose exactly what the issue is before I start buying new parts.
It seems that the card doesn't like stress, except its tolerance is very low. My PC (specs below) should be able to run serious games with no issue, but as soon as anything a bit intensive comes up (certain cutscenes, or areas load - in one game, switching the lights on in a room would do the trick) the screen fills with one colour, the sound starts looping and in a couple of seconds the PC restarts itself.
When it boots back up, there's no error messages or anything. I only know it's the graphics card because I tested it on another kit months ago when I had a chance and reproduced a crash that gave me a blue screen with a code that indicated a generic graphics card issue (I'm afraid I don't have the error code anymore but I did google it thoroughly at the time and came up with no details).
Full specs (I don't see how to attach a dxdiag and I'm not sure you'd want it all pasted in here):
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
Processor: AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor ~3.3GHz
RAM: 16GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Thanks for any help!
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