simplemod Posted April 22, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted April 22, 2012 Just had a wierd thing happen. My screen went into something similar to on old atari look. really sketchy pic, and the screen froze. I had noticed my graphics card tem was a little above normal for not being under a load, it was a little over 100F. Not really all that much, so I didnt worry. But then the screen thing happened and I couldn't do anything, and had to power off with switch, and I let it set about 20 seconds off, and then booted it back up, and it seems fine at the moment. Temp is at 90F steady on the graphics carad right now, which is really normal. I did notice that some reviews on this card said they had a lot of DOA's. Just wondering if mine maybe just lasted a little while and now it's gonna crap out. it's been in operation 2 weeks. This is in my new gaming pc, it's a GTX560 superclocked. Any thought would be nice, all other temps well within normal opertion range.
IceLizard Posted April 22, 2012 Member ID: 1669 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 44 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 175 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 64 Achievement Points: 1613 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 08/09/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 28 Birthday: 11/19/1978 Device: Android Posted April 22, 2012 turn the overclock down!! That my help. Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted April 22, 2012 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted April 22, 2012 100F = 37C. That is cool for a graphics card. Awards
simplemod Posted April 22, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted April 22, 2012 I downloaded and installed the nvidia system tools. Everything looks decent in there, I did increase the fan speed just a little more, it was at 30% and I raised it to about 50% just to see how that does. As far as the overclocking goes, it is a factory overclocked card. If it craps out I guess I'll just get it RMA'ed and possibly buy a bigger one anyway and save the RMA for a back up. I currently have the temp down to 84F. Not really sure it was the problem anyway, just my first thought. Maybe it was just a brainfart too. thanks for the responses.
BUDMAN Posted April 22, 2012 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7116 Content Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 4657 Achievement Points: 60613 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 11 minutes ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted April 22, 2012 (edited) Sometimes that kinda shit happens .... and be4 i do anything i do a cold reboot b4 doing anything .... just saying ...shit happens Edited April 22, 2012 by BUDMAN simplemod 1 Awards
PigDog Posted April 22, 2012 Member ID: 222 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 88 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3847 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 1628 Achievement Points: 25635 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 02/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted April 22, 2012 100F = 37C. That is cool for a graphics card. yeah, that is pretty cool for a card. Definitely nothing that would cause you to need to turn off the PC to let it cool. Now if it was 100 C, that would be different, but 100F is pretty good. I have a GTX570 Superclocked that is sitting in a box waiting for my new motherboard to arrive. It is the second one that I have had - I had to RMA the first one becuase it was doing something similar to what you said. It worked great at first, but then it started blue screening on me. It didn't matter what drivers I had or anything. I have been very unhappy with it and have even thought about going to an ATI card. I will wait for m y new MoBo to get here and see if I can make it work. Awards
Astronomer Posted April 23, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted April 23, 2012 100F = 37C. That is cool for a graphics card. Agreed! Under stress my cards (2x GeForce GTX 550 Tie's in SLI) jump up to 64⁰C max ( 147 F) and just keep purring. Awards
Joe Canadian Posted April 23, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Posted April 23, 2012 What games do you play Astronomer ? Two cards should be able to handle pretty much anything... I want to upgrade mine, but not sure whether I should go for an ATI RAdeon 6950 with 2gb or a Gforce gtx 550's with 1 gb of memory... I play cod2, 4, cod5 and MW3... Astronomer 1 Awards
simplemod Posted April 23, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted April 23, 2012 I did a cold boot on it at the time cause it wouldn't do anything else anyway. It seems to be okay now, I even play cod4 FT for a couple hours afterwards just to see if it would happen again. I did download and install nvidia system tools. You can change the fan speen on the graphics card, and I bumped it up a little, temp is now down to 82F. Which is really cool in my thinking, my 8600gt would run 135F or more all the time. Thnks for all the comment yall, maybe it was just a fluke and not a dieing card.
simplemod Posted April 29, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted April 29, 2012 Alright, it's been a week today, and now I've it happen 2 times today. I did find on tomsharware where several others are having the same problem, with the same card basically. All gtx 560's, I may end up ordering something else, Anyone have any suggestions? Don't want to spend a lot on it, but a couple hundred is ok.
tsw 8.5 Posted April 29, 2012 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 538 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 17595 Content Per Day: 3.11 Reputation: 42684 Achievement Points: 152317 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 692 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 09:21 AM Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted April 29, 2012 i have the evga 560 ti 448 core classifed..play BF3 for 3 and 4 hours at a time card never gets over 64 c ..my fans on the card are at 70% Awards
simplemod Posted April 29, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) it's been determined by many to be the drivers causing the problem. The temp thing was just the first thing I thought of the first time it happend. I've been reading on NVidia forums about some having it way more frequently than I am, and several who went back to the 285.xx drivers and the problem is gone. It's not the graphics intense stuff that causes the crash either, it's simple video like streaming or editing. If it happens again, i think I will try the older drivers. or maybe the next ones will be out of beta soon, the current beta is not solving the problem yet. as far as gaming goes, i have not the lockup while playing yet, just been while browsing our XI forums. Happend 3 times, all 3 times while here, and watching vids posted here. Edited April 29, 2012 by simplemod
simplemod Posted April 29, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted April 29, 2012 added a second monitor, just now. Instantly raised my vid card temp up to 125F, we'll see how it goes.
Astronomer Posted April 30, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted April 30, 2012 (edited) 100F = 37C. That is cool for a graphics card. Agreed! Under stress my cards (2x GeForce GTX 550 Tie's in SLI) jump up to 64⁰C max ( 147 F) and just keep purring. What games do you play Astronomer ? Two cards should be able to handle pretty much anything... I want to upgrade mine, but not sure whether I should go for an ATI RAdeon 6950 with 2gb or a Gforce gtx 550's with 1 gb of memory... I play cod2, 4, cod5 and MW3... I can't comment on the ATI/AMD cards because I don't know them that well. My two 550's w/ 1Gb memory perform much better than a 560 and just about as good as a 570 (as per several reviews and benchmarks on-line). I play COD WAW (and get 200-300FPS - I unlocked the maxframes) and BF3. Both games just fly at max screen resolution of 1920x1080 and graphics options on high. A single 550 TI is...meh, Performance is just "good enough", but FPS is mediocre. Two cards perform greater than the sum of their parts, which is crazy. If I were you (just quoting nVidia - there are equivalent AMD cards) Get a 560 or 570 and budget for a 2nd card eventually when prices drop. The 550 series w/ 2 cards is great for now and awesome value, but could be dead-ends projected 3-4 years out. Within that timeframe, these cards in tandem just rock. I'm more than pleased with their performance with the games that I play, and the price is very nice. Edited April 30, 2012 by Astronomer Awards
Astronomer Posted April 30, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted April 30, 2012 (edited) .., just to reinforce, for future-proofing, go for the card w/ the most memory, and budget for a 2nd card down the road. Video cards are the one item that you don't want to cheap out on. What I have is well-suited for now, but the 550 is at the lower-end of the product line. Will games become more PC-centric (vs the current model where they are written for old-tech consoles and ported to PC's)? The trend is shifting to PC's now that the current consoles are 6-ish years old. Edited April 30, 2012 by Astronomer Awards
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