First up i got to say that i feel extremely unlucky that i have received two faulty cards of the same model consecutively.
First card i received wouldn't even start in my PC, just caused sparks and white smoke to billow from where the CPU is, card was RMA within 6 days.
Second card seemed to function normally for about 3 weeks, up until this point. I was getting regular display crashes (Display driver crashed and has successfully recovered) and just today i tried to uninstall CCC 11.11 to go back to 11.10 (Cause i thought there might be a driver issue when playing Skyrim). But it wasn't, it most likely was a hardware issue. tried to reinstall 11.10 with the Card in slot 1, kept telling me it could not find the INF driver or something along those lines.
So i boxed up my 6970 after fully convinced that the card was failing, and i put my old faithful Gigabyte 6950 2gb flashed back in. Reinstalled CCC 11.11 without a hitch, no INF driver errors, no more display crashes, it is functioning as it was since the end of last year.
i wanna see if anyone else has had trouble with this model, cause two times in a row cannot be coincidence.
PS: After fully uninstalling CCC + drivers, i used ATIuninstallman, Driver sweeper, driver cleaner to fully rid my system of ATI.
MOBO: Asus P6X58D-E
CPU: Intel i7 950 3.06Ghz
RAM: Kingston DDR3 1066Mhz 6GB
PSU: Corsair TX850
