- Feb 10, 2010
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I received a new PNY 660Ti last week and put it in my system over the weekend, replacing a very old 8800GT. When I took it out of the packaging I noticed the metal bezel where the screws hold it into the back of the computer was bent. My first thought was that it was a return that had been dropped but nothing else looked damaged so I fixed it with a pair of needle nose pliers.
Eager to push the new card I bought a copy of Far Cry 3 cleaned out all old drivers and installed the latest ones from Nvidia's site. In the first 10 minutes of the game it froze with the speaker stuck on a buzzing sound. I did another driver cleanup with driver sweeper then a reinstall. Ran it through FurMark with no problems and it was performing appropriately. I then ran Far Cry for a couple hours and no problems. However the next time I booted the game up it rebooted the system in 15 minutes (no blue screen, just strait power off then restart). It has done that 4 or 5 times since at random intervals. I reseated the card and power cables last night but everything was already in pretty firmly already so I'm not confident. The last game I played on the old 8800GT was Xcom which never crashed. Prior to that I played around 80 hours of Skyrim with maybe one or two crashes.
I don't overclock anything. Should I start the RMA process or is this indicative of something else? Is there another free or cheap benchmarking test that is better at finding hardware problems?
EVGA x58 motherboard
Core i7 920
18 GB Gskill - Memtest 86+ overnight pass
Corsair 650 TX power supply
PNY 660 Ti - Dual monitor setup
Cyberpower 900w UPS
Eager to push the new card I bought a copy of Far Cry 3 cleaned out all old drivers and installed the latest ones from Nvidia's site. In the first 10 minutes of the game it froze with the speaker stuck on a buzzing sound. I did another driver cleanup with driver sweeper then a reinstall. Ran it through FurMark with no problems and it was performing appropriately. I then ran Far Cry for a couple hours and no problems. However the next time I booted the game up it rebooted the system in 15 minutes (no blue screen, just strait power off then restart). It has done that 4 or 5 times since at random intervals. I reseated the card and power cables last night but everything was already in pretty firmly already so I'm not confident. The last game I played on the old 8800GT was Xcom which never crashed. Prior to that I played around 80 hours of Skyrim with maybe one or two crashes.
I don't overclock anything. Should I start the RMA process or is this indicative of something else? Is there another free or cheap benchmarking test that is better at finding hardware problems?
EVGA x58 motherboard
Core i7 920
18 GB Gskill - Memtest 86+ overnight pass
Corsair 650 TX power supply
PNY 660 Ti - Dual monitor setup
Cyberpower 900w UPS
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