New 1070, artifacts and crashes the pc

[Zyta27]

Hey everyone.


So i've bought myself a MSI GTX1070 Gaming X, a long awaited upgrade for my old HD7770.
I've got it yesterday, took out the radeon, deleted the drivers with DDU, than plugged the 1070, turned my pc on, installed drivers and everything went swimmingly.
At least for first hour or so. I've tried a few games, all of them were running just fine, no problems at all.

Than i tried to play Overwatch, whitch after a few minutes just crashed with "Your rendering device has been lost" error. From that point on, it just gone downhill,
The card seems to be artifacting, freezing and crashing my pc, sometimes just stops displaying (No signal on monitors).

I'm not sure if it's the card's fault, or maybe my psu, since its not the best and kinda old (4.5 year).

I hope some of you can help me identify if its the card, psu, or maybe something else, so i know if i should RMA the card or just buy new PSU.

Here my specs:
PSU: OCZ CXS 500w
Mobo: ASRock B75 Pro3
CPU: Intel i5-3470
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1070 Gaming X (It's china made, with micron memory)

 

[Ronnie Dean Davidson]

Hello...sorry to here your having problems with your new graphics card but this is a know issue with both the GTX1070 and GTX1080 cards that have Micron Ram. In all of the reviews we read...Every single card had Samsung Ram...EVERY SINGLE ONE! Then...most mfrgs. started going with both Samsung and Micron and that's when the problems began.

First you need to download GPU-Z and it will tell of if your card has Samsung Ram (which does not have this problem) or Micron Ram.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/10/21/micron-gtx-1070-memory-switch/1

Looks like a BIOS Update for the cards (not you motherboard) will be the "fix". If you find you do have the Micron Ram...you need to contact MSI and ask them when they will have the Firmware Update available and either wait or RMA the card and get a GTX1060 as these cards do not seem to be affected.