Unstable Graphics Card?

[terminator123]

PC Specification:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X
Graphics Card: GTX 660:
Power Supply: EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified
RAM: G.Skill 16GB 2400MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB
Optical Drive: Samsung

Issue:

Hello, basically with the latest Nvidia/Geforce drivers I can NOT play a game SMOOTHLY without it crashing and making some weird noise come through my speakers WITHOUT putting my memory and core clock speed to -400 using MSIAfterburner. However, when I do this it only lasts for about 1 hour and then happens again.

People said it was my Graphics Card, so I RMA'ed it. The issue still persisted and i doubt I have got 2 faulty cards.
People said it was my RAM, I run Memtest and it came back clear.
I have also scanned my hard drives and nothing has been found.
Someone told me it could be my PSU not serving enough power to my GPU, I have tested my PSU using a psu tester (just the 24 pin connectors though) and it seems fine.
I was also told it could be my motherboard which is faulty or needs UPDATING.

However, what I have discovered is that I do not need to use MSI afterburner or do anything if I use an older driver (344.60) < is the driver im using now and the issue does not happen!!!

BUT. Eventually I am going to have to update my graphics drivers to play newer games...so?
What happens then? I can not use newer drivers because my GPU becomes unstable..so what must I do? What else is causing this to happen?


I look forward to your response.

terminator123.

 

[maxalge]

PC Specification:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X
Graphics Card: GTX 660:
Power Supply: EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified
RAM: G.Skill 16GB 2400MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB
Optical Drive: Samsung

Issue:

Hello, basically with the latest Nvidia/Geforce drivers I can NOT play a game SMOOTHLY without it crashing and making some weird noise come through my speakers WITHOUT putting my memory and core clock speed to -400 using MSIAfterburner. However, when I do this it only lasts for about 1 hour and then happens again.

People said it was my Graphics Card, so I RMA'ed it. The issue still persisted and i doubt I have got 2 faulty cards.
People said it was my RAM, I run Memtest and it came back clear.
I have also scanned my hard drives and nothing has been found.
Someone told me it could be my PSU not serving enough power to my GPU, I have tested my PSU using a psu tester (just the 24 pin connectors though) and it seems fine.
I was also told it could be my motherboard which is faulty or needs UPDATING.

However, what I have discovered is that I do not need to use MSI afterburner or do anything if I use an older driver (344.60) < is the driver im using now and the issue does not happen!!!

BUT. Eventually I am going to have to update my graphics drivers to play newer games...so?
What happens then? I can not use newer drivers because my GPU becomes unstable..so what must I do? What else is causing this to happen?


I look forward to your response.

terminator123.

instead of lowering settings, have you tried increasing the power limit thru msi afterburner?

 

[terminator123]

PC Specification:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X
Graphics Card: GTX 660:
Power Supply: EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified
RAM: G.Skill 16GB 2400MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB
Optical Drive: Samsung

Issue:

Hello, basically with the latest Nvidia/Geforce drivers I can NOT play a game SMOOTHLY without it crashing and making some weird noise come through my speakers WITHOUT putting my memory and core clock speed to -400 using MSIAfterburner. However, when I do this it only lasts for about 1 hour and then happens again.

People said it was my Graphics Card, so I RMA'ed it. The issue still persisted and i doubt I have got 2 faulty cards.
People said it was my RAM, I run Memtest and it came back clear.
I have also scanned my hard drives and nothing has been found.
Someone told me it could be my PSU not serving enough power to my GPU, I have tested my PSU using a psu tester (just the 24 pin connectors though) and it seems fine.
I was also told it could be my motherboard which is faulty or needs UPDATING.

However, what I have discovered is that I do not need to use MSI afterburner or do anything if I use an older driver (344.60) < is the driver im using now and the issue does not happen!!!

BUT. Eventually I am going to have to update my graphics drivers to play newer games...so?
What happens then? I can not use newer drivers because my GPU becomes unstable..so what must I do? What else is causing this to happen?


I look forward to your response.

terminator123.

instead of lowering settings, have you tried increasing the power limit thru msi afterburner?

um no i haven't? what should i try increasing the power limit to?

 

[maxalge]

PC Specification:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X
Graphics Card: GTX 660:
Power Supply: EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified
RAM: G.Skill 16GB 2400MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB
Optical Drive: Samsung

Issue:

Hello, basically with the latest Nvidia/Geforce drivers I can NOT play a game SMOOTHLY without it crashing and making some weird noise come through my speakers WITHOUT putting my memory and core clock speed to -400 using MSIAfterburner. However, when I do this it only lasts for about 1 hour and then happens again.

People said it was my Graphics Card, so I RMA'ed it. The issue still persisted and i doubt I have got 2 faulty cards.
People said it was my RAM, I run Memtest and it came back clear.
I have also scanned my hard drives and nothing has been found.
Someone told me it could be my PSU not serving enough power to my GPU, I have tested my PSU using a psu tester (just the 24 pin connectors though) and it seems fine.
I was also told it could be my motherboard which is faulty or needs UPDATING.

However, what I have discovered is that I do not need to use MSI afterburner or do anything if I use an older driver (344.60) < is the driver im using now and the issue does not happen!!!

BUT. Eventually I am going to have to update my graphics drivers to play newer games...so?
What happens then? I can not use newer drivers because my GPU becomes unstable..so what must I do? What else is causing this to happen?


I look forward to your response.

terminator123.

instead of lowering settings, have you tried increasing the power limit thru msi afterburner?

um no i haven't? what should i try increasing the power limit to?

try +20 to start

 

[terminator123]

PC Specification:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X
Graphics Card: GTX 660:
Power Supply: EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified
RAM: G.Skill 16GB 2400MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB
Optical Drive: Samsung

Issue:

Hello, basically with the latest Nvidia/Geforce drivers I can NOT play a game SMOOTHLY without it crashing and making some weird noise come through my speakers WITHOUT putting my memory and core clock speed to -400 using MSIAfterburner. However, when I do this it only lasts for about 1 hour and then happens again.

People said it was my Graphics Card, so I RMA'ed it. The issue still persisted and i doubt I have got 2 faulty cards.
People said it was my RAM, I run Memtest and it came back clear.
I have also scanned my hard drives and nothing has been found.
Someone told me it could be my PSU not serving enough power to my GPU, I have tested my PSU using a psu tester (just the 24 pin connectors though) and it seems fine.
I was also told it could be my motherboard which is faulty or needs UPDATING.

However, what I have discovered is that I do not need to use MSI afterburner or do anything if I use an older driver (344.60) < is the driver im using now and the issue does not happen!!!

BUT. Eventually I am going to have to update my graphics drivers to play newer games...so?
What happens then? I can not use newer drivers because my GPU becomes unstable..so what must I do? What else is causing this to happen?


I look forward to your response.

terminator123.

instead of lowering settings, have you tried increasing the power limit thru msi afterburner?

um no i haven't? what should i try increasing the power limit to?

try +20 to start

ok atm im using a much newer driver and it seems to be working fine

but if it starts to happen ill increase the power limit

 

[terminator123]

PC Specification:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X
Graphics Card: GTX 660:
Power Supply: EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified
RAM: G.Skill 16GB 2400MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB
Optical Drive: Samsung

Issue:

Hello, basically with the latest Nvidia/Geforce drivers I can NOT play a game SMOOTHLY without it crashing and making some weird noise come through my speakers WITHOUT putting my memory and core clock speed to -400 using MSIAfterburner. However, when I do this it only lasts for about 1 hour and then happens again.

People said it was my Graphics Card, so I RMA'ed it. The issue still persisted and i doubt I have got 2 faulty cards.
People said it was my RAM, I run Memtest and it came back clear.
I have also scanned my hard drives and nothing has been found.
Someone told me it could be my PSU not serving enough power to my GPU, I have tested my PSU using a psu tester (just the 24 pin connectors though) and it seems fine.
I was also told it could be my motherboard which is faulty or needs UPDATING.

However, what I have discovered is that I do not need to use MSI afterburner or do anything if I use an older driver (344.60) < is the driver im using now and the issue does not happen!!!

BUT. Eventually I am going to have to update my graphics drivers to play newer games...so?
What happens then? I can not use newer drivers because my GPU becomes unstable..so what must I do? What else is causing this to happen?


I look forward to your response.

terminator123.

instead of lowering settings, have you tried increasing the power limit thru msi afterburner?

um no i haven't? what should i try increasing the power limit to?

try +20 to start

ok atm im using a much newer driver and it seems to be working fine

but if it starts to happen ill increase the power limit

 

[terminator123]

Wait what do you mean +20? i can only go up to 107

 

[maxalge]

Wait what do you mean +20? i can only go up to 107

I forget it's different for nvidia.

Set it 105 to start. If it helps, you can max it no problem as long as you dont touch the voltage and temps are good.

 

[terminator123]

Wait what do you mean +20? i can only go up to 107

I forget it's different for nvidia.

Set it 105 to start. If it helps, you can max it no problem as long as you dont touch the voltage and temps are good.

ok thanks yh

 

[terminator123]

Hey i tried it and it doesn twork!
still happens while using the latest drivers
ill rollback to my other now.. but idk why?