Help, my GTX 780 TI stopped working???!??? I think it's ruined???!?!??

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Clay54412

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Hi, about a year ago I bought a GeForce GTX 780 TI SC ACX and it worked great for several months and then I decided to try to overclock it more even though it was already super clocked from the factory settings... I didn't get the results I wanted and noticed no fps gain so I just quit trying and went back to default settings... Well, I continued gaming normally on it for about 6 months and then suddenly when playing Resident Evil HD: Remastered for some time, the game just crashed but I could still hear the music...! So I force restarted the pc because the entire pc wouldn't respond...

When I restarted, I tried to play it again and after some time, the game crashed again! And so I restarted my pc and tried some other games but they all worked for a moment and then crashed also... Also when I restart, I notice little blue dots on one screen that wasn't there before...

But my pc starts in all safe modes fine and the moment I try to install graphic drivers(Any drivers) when the pc restarts, it locks up and keeps restarting and restarting in a loop...! So any time I touch graphic drivers my computer locks up...! What can I do???!?

One more thing..I even reformatted the entire pc deleting everything and still nothing...! It starts up normally and then the instant I restart after installing my graphic drivers, it crashes the same and goes in that constant restarting loop...! Can someone help me with this???? My graphics card cost like $750 and that would be a super waste of money if this happened... Can anyone help me???? Thanks.
 
Solution
I agree that it's likely damaged and you should follow the RMA procedure which may include contacting Tech Support.

Most cards have THREE YEAR warranties so you should be fine.

*If possible, try a different video card or use the iGPU of your CPU if you have one to verify no issues but the visual ARTIFACTS only happen because of the card itself.
And also, do you think EVGA would instead send me a better graphics card of a similar price? Is that possible?? My GPU is a GTX 780 Ti SC ACX and that one was costly and I was hoping to upgrade to a GTX 980 SC ACX.. Is that possible with EVGA to do a trade off? When I bought my card about 11 months ago the final total was about $820 or so with tax and I see that GTX 980 SC ACX going for about $620 or so without tax..Do you know if they swap out for another card?Thanks.