Hey,
I bought a completely new PC about a week ago with this card included, and everything ran fine until i started playing some games (Team Fortress 2 in particular).
Basically, after a random amount of playtime the screen freezes with a distorted sound and in the background there's a "Graphic Driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, version xxx.xx stopped responding and has been recovered" message to greet me.
The reason i x'd out the version number is because it has happened on every driver i have tried thus far, old and new.
I've gotten the crash/message about 20+ times now in a week's time and i'm seriously pissed off at it.
I've done pretty much everything i can to prevent this from happening, to no avail.
Temperatures seems to be fine (mid 50's to low 60's) at the time of the crash and it doesn't seem to happen in all games (though i have been too busy trying to fix the ones that do crash to try them all)
I stress-tested the card in furmark for 30-35 minutes and the temperatures got as high as 68C, but it ran perfectly with no artifacts or anything.
I've read up on countless threads regarding the "kernel mode driver stopped responding" issue, and the ones that report to have "fixed" it are saying they had to up the voltage/downclock the card in order for it to go away. But i don't know.
The card is factory overclocked, it sits at 900 Core, 1800 Shader, 2000 Memory.
I'm clueless here.
Oh and one more thing, the crash never occurs outside of games.
Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
8gb DDR3 Corsair @ 1600mhz
Intel Core i7 2600k @ stock clocks (3.4)
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
PSU: Corsair TX-650W