Just as the title says. I have a Gigabyte GV-N570OC-13I GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card that I bought from newegg on 2/3/2011. Any time I run a DirectX 11 game, or benchmark, the card crashes to desktop. This card is factory overclocked to 780/1900 and the ONLY way I can keep it from crashing is if I dial back the clock speed to 740/1800. I paid extra for a factory overclocked card and I would like to know why I can not run it the way it was sold to me.
The rest of my system is as follows:
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
BIOS: 11c beta
CPU: Intel Core I-5 750 @ 3.8 cooled by Corsair H70 liquid cooler
RAM: 8GB G Skill Ripjaw 2x4GB 2133 @ 1900
VIDEO: Gigabyte GTX 570 SO, GTS 450 physics
PSU: Corsair 1000HX
SSD: 3x OCZ Vertex 2 120(raid 0)
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 320, 2x WD Caviar Green 2TB
ODD: 2x Lite-On dvd-rw
MONITOR: Asus - 25.5 LCD 1920x1200
KEYBOARD: Logitech G15
MOUSE: Logitech G500
OS: Win 7 Home premium x64
Other things I have tried. Returning CPU to factory speed, disabling Aero and desktop composition, Removing my physix card (GTS 450). Nothing except lowering the clocks on my GTX570 works.
I have been a very loyal gigabyte customer with all four of my home computers running Gigabyte motherboards and gigabyte video cards. This is honestly the first problem I have ever had and I hope to find a solution soon.
EDIT: I should add that I was only forced into finding the lowering clock speed solution tonight because I just got Need For Speed: The Run and it runs natively in DX11. Before this I have just dealt with it by running other games (dirt 3, FI 2011, etc...) in DX 9 mode.
