MSI 6970 lightning blue screen

[dfigge001]

So i have this issue that seems to be driver related... I have yet to find a solid drive for this to solve my current problem.
Problem is that when i play any video games on my computer it will crash the game client or it will blue screen followed by memory dump. it seems to do this faster if my video card is over 60c degrees. but thats well below the operating temps for the card and when the card is at 70 - 72 its almost always gonna happen. now keep in mind that it almost always will happen sooner or later just have to play long enough and its not instant... the times it doesnt happen is when my video card is under-clocked by a *** ton and i also lower all setting and then the video card never reaches 57c and i havent seen it blue screen or crash the client from this either...
so after all that i guess i need to know if anyone knows of a working driver for this video card
or
am i on the wrong track for this and its something else? the only thing else i can figure would be the motherboard and its a gigabyte so yeah... very easy to configure wrong on those since it has 50000 different configurations.

 

[Estacado]

your psu ?

 

[bryonhowley]

My guess would also be PSU. What make/model?

 

[dfigge001]

1200 watt cosair. more then enough for it.

 

[dfigge001]

all the specs.. and more.
Case: 1 x Corsair Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139005

LCD Fan Controller: 1 x NZXT Sentry-2 5.25" Touch Screen fan controller
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811992005

Motherboard: 1 x GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD7-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128480

Power Supply: 1 x CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 (CMPSU-1200AX) 1200W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139014

Processor: 1 x Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I72600K
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070

Solid State Drive: 1x SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193

Solid State Drive: 1 x Intel 510 Series (Elm Crest) SSDSC2MH120A2K5 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167042

Processor Cooler: 1 x CORSAIR CWCH60 Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181015

Fans: 2 x XIGMATEK Cooling System XLF-F1254 120mm White LED Black Case Fan PSU Molex Adapter/extender included
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233035

Memory (RAM) : 2 x CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233147

Store Drive: 1 x Seagate Barracuda XT ST33000651AS 3TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148736

Storage Drives: 2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136283

Monitor: 1 x Acer S231HLbid Black 23" 5ms HDMI LED-Backlight LCD monitor Slim Design
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009255

Operating System: 1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116997

Video Card: 1 x MSI R6970 Lightning Radeon HD 6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127581

 

[dfigge001]

Anyone got an idea?
i have tried to RMA this Video card but they just returned it back to me (the same one) with what appeared to be nothing changed... and i originally bought 2 of these Video cards but the other was DOA and i also RMA'd that and got one back that was basically falling apart (loose fan and heat sink) needless to say it didnt work for long... it would artifact during load up and in desktop.
so just please dont tell me to RMA or have MSI look at them lol.. i will never buy another thing with MSI logo on it.