GTX 970 Driver Failure

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farlsbarkley

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So I've had my graphics card since this past summer with essentially no problems. The other parts are roughly one year older, some newer additions excluded, when I built the computer the previous summer. I'll detail my issue after listing my build parts.

FX 8320 Black edition
Asus M5A97 R2.0
PNY XLR8 8GB Single Stick
Ultra LSP 750W PSU
Asus STRIX GTX 970
Seagate 250 gb hdd
Western Digital 1TB Black hdd
Samsung 850 ssd 250 gb

So I've got a stable overclock on my cpu and I thought it would be cool to do the same with my fancy gpu. It's at 1500/4000 and seems very stable running unigine and any game i throw at it. However when gaming for anything longer than half an hour I may end up with a driver failure and ' successful recovery'. After which occasionally i need to reboot the computer to not suffer performance loss in game. This issue has never been game specific and happens only semi frequently at best. My inclination is that the power supply is dying, since I've never heard of the brand, can't find much information on it, and it's the oldest component. It was bought for possible SLI configuration when my brother bought an nvidia barebones kit back in the day.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.


 
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ko888
The maximum temperature target for that graphics card is somewhere around 91°C so you've got some headroom to play with.
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The driver failure is more an indication of an unstable GPU overclock. Try 1450 MHz for the GPU clock and see if you still get the error. I suspect it should be stable at somewhere between 1400 MHz to 1450 MHz.
 
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You can't give the GPU more power but you can can raise the power limit that the graphics card is allowed to draw by using a utility like MSI Afterburner for example. You can also try raising the GPU voltage but that leads to an increase in temperature which may lead to thermal throttling.
 
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farlsbarkley

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Right, I've been using afterburner to overclock. My power limit is set to max currently, but voltage is only raised by the smallest increment because I saw the program warned against possible damage. If thermal throttling is the most likely issue to arise I'll probably increase voltage and test it again, I've never seen temps rise above 69 C.
 
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