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Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem

Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem
« on: May 14, 2011, 04:31:52 am »
I love this card.
BUT

It now has me worried....
I have never seen an artifact in the month that I have had it until tonight.
I tried to bring up several games but they would quickly artifact and crash....and a stability
test run showed massive artifacts and the continual "Nvidia display driver stopped responding.."
It has been days since the computer was last off.
A cold boot fixed the issue, at least so far.
I have heard that there is an issue with the 5xx series cards (bug, if you will) and that
this is known and rather comon. Can anyone confirm this or am I looking at a RMA?

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Re: Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 10:44:18 am »
Hi

There does seem to be a problem with these cards at the moment in so much as there are a lot of these type of posts coming on the forum. Whether it is a driver or firmware problem is hard to say at the moment but nobody seems to have a long term fix so far.

I would suggest tyhat you do a search of the forum and see what you can uncover.
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Re: Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 06:22:45 pm »
Thank you for the response. I am having trouble pinning down my exact situation, as most people seem to be experiencing bad overclocks and/or bad hardware. My problem seemed to be remedied by a cold boot. I read somewhere in another forum, exactly which I can't remember, that this doesn't mean a bad card or OC, but simply the nature of the 5xx series as it is today....I am wondering, has anyone else had similar experiences, where they must cold boot twice a week to keep their GC from artifacting? ???

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Re: Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 06:35:55 pm »
I take it from what you have said there that you leave the machine turned on alll the time and just let it enter sleep mode when not in use. Is that correct ?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 01:35:59 am »
Actually, it is a 24/7 machine. The monitor gets shut down when not in use,
but when I added the Gigabyte 560Ti it would no longer wake from sleep
reliably so now I just leave it on ;D

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Re: Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 10:46:34 am »
In that case disable the power savings modes in the BIOS and see if that helps.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy