- Jan 18, 2016
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Ah... My relationship with technology. Nothing ever works properly!
So, yesterday I bought an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (G1 Gaming OC Edition from GIGABYTE). It seemed like the perfect budget card for my needs. I live in a very small country near the Adriatic, and actually functional computer hardware seems to be quite uncommon, even if it's supposed to be brand-spanking new. Before this card I had an AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB (Asus DirectCUII Edition).That card worked just fine. I used DDU to remove all AMD Crimson drivers and installed all the latest Nvidia drivers from their site... At first, everything seemed to work just fine until a couple hours after I got it, when pretty much ANY game that I tried to play would crash to desktop almost instantly (in some rare cases the game could run for 5-10 mins before crashing.) Even at the lowest possible settings, Battlegrounds, Rainbow Six, Need for Speed, etc. THEY ALL CRASHED. Could it be some kind of overheating issue? All I have for cooling is the CPU fan and GPU fans. And it is the summer time. I reinstalled ALL the drivers 2-3 times to no success. I switched wires around, checked other components to see if they were interfering in some way, changed settings in GIGABYTE Xtreme and BIOS, cleaned the entire PC of dust, NOTHING. My PSU can definitely handle it, I know that for a fact. Another thing to mention is that I did in fact see a bunch of black pixels and artifacts from time to time, which leads me to believe that this is just a bad card, a dud. I have no other options than just getting it replaced. I saw some other posts on the forums where people were saying there could be a motherboard issue which would just be devastating for me because I can't afford a new one at this time. Here are my system specs, and I really hope someone from the community has an answer:
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0;
CPU: AMD FX-8320 (8-Core);
CPU Fan: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO;
GPU: GIGABYTE Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (G1 Gaming Edition);
RAM: 8GB DDR3 HyperX Beast (2x 4GB - DUAL CHANNEL);
PSU: ThermalTake 450W;
HDD: Western-Digital Caviar Green 1TB;
Case: LOGIC Cooling Master Mid-Tower
So, yesterday I bought an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (G1 Gaming OC Edition from GIGABYTE). It seemed like the perfect budget card for my needs. I live in a very small country near the Adriatic, and actually functional computer hardware seems to be quite uncommon, even if it's supposed to be brand-spanking new. Before this card I had an AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB (Asus DirectCUII Edition).That card worked just fine. I used DDU to remove all AMD Crimson drivers and installed all the latest Nvidia drivers from their site... At first, everything seemed to work just fine until a couple hours after I got it, when pretty much ANY game that I tried to play would crash to desktop almost instantly (in some rare cases the game could run for 5-10 mins before crashing.) Even at the lowest possible settings, Battlegrounds, Rainbow Six, Need for Speed, etc. THEY ALL CRASHED. Could it be some kind of overheating issue? All I have for cooling is the CPU fan and GPU fans. And it is the summer time. I reinstalled ALL the drivers 2-3 times to no success. I switched wires around, checked other components to see if they were interfering in some way, changed settings in GIGABYTE Xtreme and BIOS, cleaned the entire PC of dust, NOTHING. My PSU can definitely handle it, I know that for a fact. Another thing to mention is that I did in fact see a bunch of black pixels and artifacts from time to time, which leads me to believe that this is just a bad card, a dud. I have no other options than just getting it replaced. I saw some other posts on the forums where people were saying there could be a motherboard issue which would just be devastating for me because I can't afford a new one at this time. Here are my system specs, and I really hope someone from the community has an answer:
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0;
CPU: AMD FX-8320 (8-Core);
CPU Fan: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO;
GPU: GIGABYTE Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (G1 Gaming Edition);
RAM: 8GB DDR3 HyperX Beast (2x 4GB - DUAL CHANNEL);
PSU: ThermalTake 450W;
HDD: Western-Digital Caviar Green 1TB;
Case: LOGIC Cooling Master Mid-Tower
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