GV-R685OC-1GD - Constant Crashes

[wickedpt]

Hello,

Hope you can help me. Recently I upgraded my PC with the HD6850 OC (GV-R685OC-1GD) card from a nVidia GTS260. Ever since the upgrade (with the prover driver wipe and after installing the most recent AMD drivers) i either:

a) Crash completely in DX11 mode after a couple of minutes

b) Have a "Graphics Card stopped responding" in DX9 with constant black screens, making mostly every game unplayable.

My question is this:

Is this a know issue with these cards? A driver issue? A BIOS issue? Should i just RMA or replace the card? I went back to the GTS260 because the Gigabyte card makes every game unplayable.

My System:

msi fx790-gd70
Phenom X2 550
Corsair HX620

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

There is a known issue with these cards apparently and from what I have heard it is not only Gigabyte cards as the real problem lies with the memory installed on the  GPUs.

See this thread for more information:    http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,3884.0.html

[wickedpt]

Since this is a Know Issue, should I RMA the card? Or wait for a driver update? It's a bit annoying to have my computer unusable like this...

[Dark Mantis]

Well if you notice on that thread they were complaining about cards with a certain make of memory chips so I would suggest that you check your card and see if it complies to the issue in that thread.

To be fair I haven't heard of any cards this end of the continent so far with this problem.

[Villy_Da_Man]

Update BIOS on your motherboard, update BIOS on a graphic card (if available). If that does not help, put your GPU on def freq (820Mhz for GPU) for that card, and do the math on your own

775:1005=820:X

775 x X = 820*1005

775X= 824100

X= 824100/775

X= 1064

So, put your RAM freq on 1064MHz. It is all about corelation with GPU / RAM

Say if it works!

bye!!!