A few months ago I built a new PC with a GTX 570 in it. I've been maxing out Battlefield 3, Crysis, etc. with it and all that worked fine. But since about 2 weeks, I've been getting strange artefacts in every kind of 3D application.
Sometimes it's model vertices that are bugged, like this:
[t]http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/de_dust20002.jpg[/t]
And sometimes it's texture or render buffer artefacts, like this:
[img]http://puu.sh/bsGz[/img]
My card is not overclocked and is running on the latest drivers (285.62). It has been running on those since I installed Battlefield 3, so it definitely wasn't caused by a driver update. The next possible cause is of course high temperatures, but that also didn't appear to be the problem:
[img]http://puu.sh/ciUR[/img]
[img]http://puu.sh/cj0R[/img]
On top of that, my NVIDIA kernel drivers crash about twice a day. Usually when I'm viewing a 3D application and load a YouTube video at the same time. I just did a full driver reinstall, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't cause such problems and I think I saw a small artefact again on boot, but I'm not sure.
My full specs are listed below:
[b]OS:[/b] MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
[b]CPU:[/b] Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz (49 degrees celcius while running FurMark)
[b]RAM:[/b] 8,00 GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24)
[b]Motherboard:[/b] Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z68X-UD4-B3 (Socket 1155)
[b]GPU:[/b] 1280MB GeForce GTX 570 (EVGA)
[b]Hard drives:[/b] 125GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 ATA Device (SATA-SSD)
977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device (SATA)
[b]Power supply:[/b] Cooler Master Silent Pro M700
Should I bring back this card? Could it be a temperature problem? Power supply perhaps? Or maybe dust, although this PC is only a few months old?
RMA the card.
Before you RMA, troubleshoot.
Reseat, driver reinstall, dust cleanout etc etc.
I have the same problem only it's random at times (Buffer / texture artifacts.). I've contacted EVGA over it and they've told me to RMA it which isn't too big of a hassle for me.
It might be your temps though I don't know. Somehow in this tiny case my 560 Ti doesn't go much over 75c.
Might also be the latest drivers they've been fucking up on me
Hmm, it's getting worse and worse now. I can't play any game (Fallout: NV, TF2) anymore without artifacts appearing all over the screen and game world. Usually, seconds later the game and the drivers crash. This was after a clean driver reinstallation. I'm definitely going to RMA it, but how could a card suddenly fail so hard?
On another note, I bought 8 GB RAM from the same store at the same time and two of the sticks were full of errors, so I had to RMA those as well.
[editline]4th January 2012[/editline]
The store doesn't sell the card anymore. Should I get the EVGA GeForce GTX570 HD and overclock it myself? (I previously owned the GeForce GTX570 SuperClocked)
I have a GTX 570 by ASUS and I've also been having problems with it. Random NVIDIA driver crashes in games that run on DX11.
I've done all the troubleshooting for hardware problems and stability tests, so the only thing that seems to be wrong are drivers.
I've also noticed that GTX 570 isn't NVIDIA's favorite card, since with all the new driver change logs they put out, there are only optimizations for GTX 560 and 580.
Okay, I now connected my card so it can receive all the PSU's power and it now takes a lot longer for it to crash and the voltages are more stable, but it still does.
Mine just crashes randomly. I've got a 560 Ti, and I'm in the process of RMAing it.
Though I have a slight feeling it's the drivers. Problems started when I updated to 288 or whatever the current version is from the drivers that came with the card (266 something I think)
Just get the money back from the store and buy another card, maybe with a better cooler, not the stock one.
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