Hi,
I've been using the above card for almost a year now. Initially everything was ok except for occasional TDRs but in the past few months, I've been encountering random system restarts only when I'm gaming. Prime95, memtest86 and OCCT turns out fine after 2hr runs. I am not overclocking my system and the system runs fine when I am not playing games, even video encoding is fine. After upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7, the problem became worse. Instead of just random freezing or TDR, my system shuts down and then starts up on its own only during gaming. The first games I noticed exhibiting this issue was Killing Floor 2 and Skyforge on nvidia driver 355.60. The problems with those games were resolved in driver version 355.98 but with the recently released Might and Magic Heroes VII the problem became way too frequent.
While I can attribute game crashing to badly optimized drivers or games, I cannot understand why will it shutdown my entire system as if my PSU is dying. Just to be sure, I took out my older Zotac GTX 760 to test. While the games do exhibit stuttering at times, it doesn't power off my system randomly. I am suspecting a faulty graphics card but the symptoms only manifest when running buggy games and I do not have a separate system to test. BTW, it is not a BSOD. I've already set the system to not automatically restart and there were no crash dumps generated. My main specs:
Windows 10 Home (Fresh installation after upgrade)
i7 2600k on Gigabyte Z77x-UD3H cooled by Corsair H80i
2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LP
Corsair HX750 PSU
Samsung Evo Pro 850 250GB
Oh, FYI, GPU-Z temps readings for GPU were at 67-68 degrees celsius and my CPU doesn't exceed 75 at full load. Can I RMA the card? I don't live near AMK and I don't drive so I don't really want to make multiple trips.
I've been using the above card for almost a year now. Initially everything was ok except for occasional TDRs but in the past few months, I've been encountering random system restarts only when I'm gaming. Prime95, memtest86 and OCCT turns out fine after 2hr runs. I am not overclocking my system and the system runs fine when I am not playing games, even video encoding is fine. After upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7, the problem became worse. Instead of just random freezing or TDR, my system shuts down and then starts up on its own only during gaming. The first games I noticed exhibiting this issue was Killing Floor 2 and Skyforge on nvidia driver 355.60. The problems with those games were resolved in driver version 355.98 but with the recently released Might and Magic Heroes VII the problem became way too frequent.
While I can attribute game crashing to badly optimized drivers or games, I cannot understand why will it shutdown my entire system as if my PSU is dying. Just to be sure, I took out my older Zotac GTX 760 to test. While the games do exhibit stuttering at times, it doesn't power off my system randomly. I am suspecting a faulty graphics card but the symptoms only manifest when running buggy games and I do not have a separate system to test. BTW, it is not a BSOD. I've already set the system to not automatically restart and there were no crash dumps generated. My main specs:
Windows 10 Home (Fresh installation after upgrade)
i7 2600k on Gigabyte Z77x-UD3H cooled by Corsair H80i
2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LP
Corsair HX750 PSU
Samsung Evo Pro 850 250GB
Oh, FYI, GPU-Z temps readings for GPU were at 67-68 degrees celsius and my CPU doesn't exceed 75 at full load. Can I RMA the card? I don't live near AMK and I don't drive so I don't really want to make multiple trips.