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fried eggs anyone?

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fried eggs anyone? [Solved]

Been frying eggs all week on my graphics card and I was wondering if any of you gents were having a similar problem. Running 8 clients at absolute minimum settings on Evga 560ti superclocked and the thing has been getting so hot that the nvidia driver resets itself and crashes my display until I restart the computer. i-2700k, 32GB ram, system's at about half capacity with 4 virtual machines running the 8 clients, I clocked the gpu down as low as i could and it still crashes even with the fan sounding like a jet engine. never had this problem until i started running 6+ clients and I know there's plenty of ballers around here running way more than that so if that's you... what kinda card are you using?

edit: Solved by Master_Cirroji who identified this as a driver issue. Rolling back to Nvida 296.01 has stopped the crashes.

Thank you to everyone who posted, I sincerely appreciate your help!
 
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I only run one client normally but I also run other games etc. However my Radeon HD 6990 stays cool at 48c np
 
This might seem like common sense but it's something I forgot to notice at first. Make sure you have vsync enabled otherwise your FPS will be through the roof, further pushing your graphics card. Mine was constantly sitting at like 90 degrees do to running D3 at like 200+ FPS before I realized what the problem was.
 
@m33pm33p if you look into it a second or two more, you might find there's other options than just turning vsync on.
 
@valen

No shit? I assume he's already put all settings to minimum and tried limiting fps. not many eople know what vsync does so i was trying to post a constructive idea. And what exactly did u add?

Running 8+ programs at max fps could cause the symptoms hes seeing. Also make sure in ur grpahics card settings ur not forcing any high scale options
 
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alright, lets all assume stuff and turn vsync on and fry our gfx cards then :D
 
Case in point. You have no idea lol. Vsync Limits frames to refresh rate you wingnut. It wouldnt fry his card. Shhhh
 
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Thank you all for your replies! I have not tried anything with Vsync limits yet but I will mess with that and report back.

Literally I have the max foreground fps @ 15 and background fps @ 2 for each client. Everything set to low or off, low effects enabled. I assumed it was a temperature issue but the internal temp reads only slightly above 50 celsius when it crashes. Weird thing is even some legit players are experiencing this problem as per Screen Turns Black and alt tabs me out. - Forums - Diablo III

It never happens with anything below 6 clients, and happens faster the more clients I run. It seems that the gpu has already sustained permanent damage from this though.

I also have the card's settings via Nvida control panel set to maximize performance at the expense of quality. It doesn't whether I clock the card down or leave it at factory settings, it crashes repeatedly.

Is there anyone who thinks this is NOT a temperature issue but maybe just that the 560ti is simply not powerful enough?

edit: Vertical Sync only appears to affect the fps, which is already extremely low so I think it's safe to rule that out
 
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16bit color and disabled trilinear filtering in prefs?
 
I have i7-2600 and zotac 560ti AMP, running 7 clients.
With extremely low d3 settings there is almost no GPU usage, its all about CPU, for me average gpu load is 25%, and temp is about 75-78C, and video driver still crashes about every 12-20 hours. BTW, make sure you have aero disabled on all VM's.
 
on my bot computer, my cpu runs about room temp (26-28c w/ corsair H100 w/ 4x 120mm fans) and my vid card runs about 40c with 11 wow/hb's running

cpu: amd 8 core @ 3.9ghz (stock 3.6ghz)
32 gb ddr3
amd 6950 2gb w/ 6 video-out
1Kw psu

as far as main comp and demonbuddy / d3 ... check the small pic (ignore the ram usage, that was taken a long time ago lol)
 

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have you tried blowing the dust out of the heat sink on the card. Also do you have a program installed to verify your fan speed is increasing to compensate for heat or even manually adjust fan speed to see if it helps
 
It very well could be the GPU having problem, you're running a lot different games that are using the graphics processor. However, are you sure all the cooling on the GPU itself is working correctly? IE: Fans are still running and not blocked by dust or dirt. Could also be an issue with your power supply dieing if you are actually crashing or auto-rebooting. Do you use the standard fan settings or do you use a tweaking program? I myself run an AMD 6970 but I use a program called afterburner to manually control my fan level curves at certain temperatures. If you DONT, that's something you could try.
 
What is ur rig setup? Your GPU is obviously overheating leading to failures, anything over 70c will throttle your GPU.

Do you have intake and out take fans?? Do you have fans that intake cool air directly near the GPU's fan??

I have 3 140mm fans directly blowing into the GPU fan.

What case do you have?
 
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What is ur rig setup? Your GPU is obviously overheating leading to failures, anything over 70c will throttle your GPU.
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You are completely wrong here. Failures starts at 95-99c for 560TI, everything below is normal operating temperature.
 
Jennahaze said:
You are completely wrong here. Failures starts at 95-99c for 560TI, everything below is normal operating temperature.
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I'm afraid you are wrong poorly mistaken. 560ti and most nvidia cards are set to downclock progressively from 70c onward through around 80c, reducing both voltage and clockspeeds as a function of the GPU boost tech.

There is a difference between thermal limit which is for the GTX560Ti is 99C and temperature threshold throttling.

since we do not know his GPU temps we can only assume it is high enough to sound like a jet engine and cause his games to crash.

Please do not act like you know things when you clearly lack any knowledge.
 
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Hey, calm down, there is no offence in my post.
I have exactly the same problems with video driver failure, and i have read so much shit about why it happens.
And, for me, its definately not about temperature, cause, for example, i can play dota 2 for five hours while my gpu at 87-89c with no problems at all, and when i turn on 4 VM and GPU is at 75c it can crash after 15 mins. And even if im sitting here doing nothing, exept watching some streams/videos at 60c it can still crash.
Just burned my card for 86c and it is show the same gpu/memory/ clock and voltage as at 65c. And fan start to work at full speed when GPU is above 90c. imgur: the simple image sharer
 
try older drivers, i just updated my nvidia drivers and anno 2070 overheats my system (this is the same OC i've used solid for 2 years)

do you have your cpu overclocked? if its teh unlocked multiplier you should be able to easily bank off that. i have a i7 -920 that sits @ 4ghz 24/7 love the performance increase

remember nvidia cards can run hot in the high 80's-90's for days
 
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