Looking for any advice in regards to evga GTX 660 Ti SC 3GB GPU.

[tritton78]

Hello, long time lurker and first time poster. I'll get down to the nitty gritty.
I recently bought a EVGA GTX 660 Ti 3GB gpu that I replaced a GTX 550 Ti with. My issue is that I don't think this card is living up to my expectations and I am unsure if there may be something wrong with the card or I am doing something wrong.

The reasons I feel this way are I don't seem to be getting a substantial increase over the GTX 550 which I thought I would see. For example, in some of the games I play Tera, and World of Warcraft being the two where I see no real increase in performance. There may be 5-10 FPS increase, if that, over the GTX 550 Ti. Secondly, while playing Tera today, for about I'd say 1 hour maybe a little bit more, my screen went pink for about 1 minute then resumed normally. However it resumed with a SEVERE FPS drop (20 FPS or less). I restarted my computer from there, and it restarted completely fine. I then proceeded to install Furmark and I ran that for an hour @ 74 C with no problems that I saw. The only issue was it was running at a steady 27-28 FPS in full screen which I'm not sure how that fares compared to other cards.

That's is really all the information I can give you besides my computer specs which I will list now.

i5 2500k @ OC'd to 4.5 (Stable).
620W Antec PSU
16 GB RAM
EVGA GTX 660 TI Superclocked 3gb (Hasn't been touched by me in regards to any Overclocking -- that is why I bought the superclocked =P).

Any advice or input is extremely appreciated.... Maybe this card just didn't live up to my expectation. ;(

 

[902]

What res are you gaming at?

 

[tritton78]

1368x768. Running two monitors also. The main monitor-- the one i was playing the game on went pink. The second monitor just went black.

 

[shamsmu]

the fps you are getting is indeed low but the games you are playing are highly dependent on cpu especially at that resolution

Can you try running 3dmark 11 and 3dmark vantage and post your scores? That's how I usually know if my cpu/gpu is performing as it should

 

[tritton78]

Thank you. I will do that right now and get back as soon as its done.

 

[Pgooch]

Screen went pink because your drivers crashed, try to delete all drivers and install latest driver then try to down clock the card some and see if you get better results if problem persists

 

[tritton78]

3Dmark 11 reults: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6216315

 

[shamsmu]

The scores are fairly normal the gtx660 ti scores range from 7700 to 9100 depending on the models and oc tho I'd expect a little more from the evga sc model but its nothing too far from ordinary. So I am assuming there is no major fault with your gpu(eg. damaged hardware) Try downloading the latest beta drivers and see if it improves things http://www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy

 

[tritton78]

3D Mark Vantage: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/405539

 

[Pgooch]

Your core clock is only at 700 some odd mhz it should be 980 I believe stock

 

[tritton78]

I saw that also. What would that be from?

 

[Pgooch]

I don't have a clue but his memory clock and core clock are both a lot lower then they should be, I'm at work right now or I would do some research for you but I believe that is your problem. Open up gpuz and tell us your core clock and boost clock while running the benchmark

 

[shamsmu]

I wouldn't worry about it too much 3dmark always shows incorrect reading in terms of core and memory clock of the gpu.

 

[Pgooch]

I've never used it actually but if that is true, then I'd be back to a driver problem. Or a bad factory over clock