GTX 760 stock overclock problems?

Agash

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Hello, my Gigabyte Windforce 3X GTX 760 2GB OC gprahics card has had this problem since I purchased it in 2014. When I play high end games like Far Cry 4 or GTA V, it would crash with a driver problem. I thought it was a driver problem but I cleaned my drivers, installed them again and different ones too but no luck. Then I considered downclocking my card using MSI Afterburner and it works. It also gives me occasional stutter and small white sparks in Heaven and Vally Benchmark with occasional pink flash too. Pink flashes also occur in Payday 2. It's also weird that when I'm running Vally/Heaven Benchmark, the graphics card black screens and the GPU instantly drops fan speed and power and then it turns on again. After turning on again, the benchmark continues where it's left off and black screens again on the stock overclock. When I underclock it 105 mhz to the stock GTX 760 speed, it works great but the fans are way too loud at 70% and the temp reaches 80 degrees Celsius. I was thinking about RMA'ing it since I have until March 2017. My question is, should I RMA my card and what should I expect? The thing is I heard bad things about Gigabyte RMA....Thanks.
 

Agash

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That's what I thought too but this has been happening since I bought the card. It might be the case ventilation but I don't know how to fix that? Also, it doesn't crash if I downclock it though and it's still has high temps.