nVidia latest driver killing GPUs?

[Gaminator]

The driver boost the voltage of certain cards I believe, but it seems to affect Fermi worse of all. But then again, not all models of Fermi....certain models only (can't recall exactly which though). One guy stated that he was monitoring voltage and saw the GPU voltage spike high enough to kill the GPU. The surprising thing about this driver is that it is a WHQL driver, yet kena all this problem from frying certain Fermis to terrible graphics glitches and such......damn surprising sia!

 

[2fast2drive]

The driver boost the voltage of certain cards I believe, but it seems to affect Fermi worse of all. But then again, not all models of Fermi....certain models only (can't recall exactly which though). One guy stated that he was monitoring voltage and saw the GPU voltage spike high enough to kill the GPU. The surprising thing about this driver is that it is a WHQL driver, yet kena all this problem from frying certain Fermis to terrible graphics glitches and such......damn surprising sia!

what i read too. Not sure if this is exactly what happened to my 580 though... Hopefully it can be repaired and serve as spare card.

 

[Entry Level PC]

green camp supporter can go jiak sai liao.

 

[wwenze]

This is the second time nVidia has released a driver that can cause actual hardware damage. One thing about the red camp driver, say what you want, they have never killed a GPU....

They leave that to the VRM designers. Their driver programmers are busy making the hair and scalp of characters' heads disappear.

 

[iZoneSG]

The Titan and 700 series cards affected? I heard some complaints from 780 users on other overseas forum.

 

[croc1977]

Indeed, I still recall reading news on the previous incident. I feel the drivers were rushed out with limited testing. From the last incident, I have always been wary of new drivers, WHQL or not. Sometimes its better to wait and see, especially if one is "upgrading" drivers for performance.

AMD has been doing well in this aspect so far, hope they won't commit the same as Nvidia.

wonder what if microsoft buy over nvidia?

 

[urban6]

Installed Nvidia latest driver when it was released. Playing bf3 for first 10mins and the screen artifacts starts to appear. Mine was in "high" settings ann even after restarting my comp it would still be the same. Had to roll back to the previous driver then all ok liow. Now waiting for Nvidia response.

 

[ah hui]

Me just install on 660ti. But hvnt play any games on it yet. Only affect when play games?