I recently picked this up second hand. I don't know much about the history of this card. I replaced my 4850 crossfire setup with the GTX 470 , installed the latest drivers (275.33).
So far, I've never seen it crash in game. I've been able to play Crysis Warhead, Starcraft 2, and Arkham Asylum for a few hours each and never experienced a crash in game.
After a few days, the card started to crash while just browsing the web (just been using firefox) and had steam open at the same time. The computer goes unresponsive for a second, then the monitor displays no signal for a second, and then the display comes back and the computer warns that the kernel crashed and was successfully recovered. Sometime its very frequent, every 5 seconds and other times I can use the computer at least a half an hour and nothing occurs.
I tried reinstalling the drivers and re-seating the graphics card. My power supply is a HX620. Any other details can be found in my signature. I've monitored the temperatures under GPU-Z and all the temps remained under 60 degrees.
I'd really appreciate if someone could solve this problem as it seems like a great functioning card in games but some odd behaviors.
Edit: I've found one method of crashing it. Taking the firefox window and decreasing the size of the width. That doesnt always work but it did work twice in a row. Also, I turned off Aero to see if that was causing the problem but it still occurs when using the basic UI.
So far, I've never seen it crash in game. I've been able to play Crysis Warhead, Starcraft 2, and Arkham Asylum for a few hours each and never experienced a crash in game.
After a few days, the card started to crash while just browsing the web (just been using firefox) and had steam open at the same time. The computer goes unresponsive for a second, then the monitor displays no signal for a second, and then the display comes back and the computer warns that the kernel crashed and was successfully recovered. Sometime its very frequent, every 5 seconds and other times I can use the computer at least a half an hour and nothing occurs.
I tried reinstalling the drivers and re-seating the graphics card. My power supply is a HX620. Any other details can be found in my signature. I've monitored the temperatures under GPU-Z and all the temps remained under 60 degrees.
I'd really appreciate if someone could solve this problem as it seems like a great functioning card in games but some odd behaviors.
Edit: I've found one method of crashing it. Taking the firefox window and decreasing the size of the width. That doesnt always work but it did work twice in a row. Also, I turned off Aero to see if that was causing the problem but it still occurs when using the basic UI.