fried eggs anyone?

[Master_Cirroji]

What is ur rig setup?

Your GPU is obviously overheating leading to failures, anything over 70c will throttle your GPU.

never have an enthusiast card eh?

dont' talk like that to people when YOU sir, have no clue. the actual variant of peak temps between cards, die size, thermal resistance is insane.

70c isn't piddle on many futurmark benchmarks i've broken 100c without damaging my nvidia cards
ATI, no clue, don't buy that stuff


-edit- i let it run to 95c, no stutter, lag, pixelization d3/max options 1920x1080.

 

[Jennahaze]

try older drivers

Sure, i tried different ones 270-290 with no sucess, it can work for 2-3 days after reinstalling the driver and then start to crash again.
I think only windows reinstall will help, but really, im too lazy for backup and reinstall all the shit i have with it.

 

[Master_Cirroji]

Sure, i tried different ones 270-290 with no sucess, it can work for 2-3 days after reinstalling the driver and then start to crash again.
I think only windows reinstall will help, but really, im too lazy for backup and reinstall all the shit i have with it.

with only 1gb i think you may be pushing it just too much time for SLI

you can always perform a "clean install" with your drivers, if its directly the GPU re-install on windows isn't going to do much

 

[jinny1]

never have an enthusiast card eh?

dont' talk like that to people when YOU sir, have no clue. the actual variant of peak temps between cards, die size, thermal resistance is insane.

70c isn't piddle on many futurmark benchmarks i've broken 100c without damaging my nvidia cards
ATI, no clue, don't buy that stuff


-edit- i let it run to 95c, no stutter, lag, pixelization d3/max options 1920x1080.

You obviously don't have any proper training if you are letting your GPU at 95c.

I set up my fan profile to maximum whenever it goes over 70c? why? because that is where you get maximum performance and longevity.

My GTX670 overclocked is a pretty enthusiast GPU. Your puny little GTX470 isn't what i'd call enthusiast.

LOL No damage??? man oh man this gets even more funny. It's about reducing the life of your electrical component. HAve you done any basic electrical engineering or electric science courses?? Just because your GPU doesn't blow up straight away it doesn't mean that no damage is being done.

Just stay quiet and let the grown ups handle this okay?? stop embarrassing yourself

 

[ezpwnd]

well jinny1, actually master_cirroji is right. unlike cpus, gpus can easily go 85?C+ with no harm done.

your talk about "longevity" is pretty pointless too. most people dont care if the graphic card will break after 5-7 years of use and not 7-10 years because they will surely get a new one after a few years anyway. the hardware enthusiast you are, you will surely get the point.

 

[Master_Cirroji]

I'd consider myself an enthusiast since my gtx470 can apparently handle 2x the heat of your card without it shutting down. its called OC'ing and using your potential of your harware, thinking your an enthusiast by continously buying new shit instead of learning how to use your old stuff is n00bish

this videocard has miles on it, and still can crush anything out. Grown ups? im 30 years old and have a family, Im saving for a fishing boat, not for a new videocard that i wont see any performance increase in.

nice try troll

-ed-
BTW the point of that wasn't that it sits @ 95, if you CAN READ, you would of seen i let it go to 95c and tried to see WTF you were talking about losing performance/downscaling. WHICH NONE HAPPENED.
thats how you know a troll, he ignores when the things he said are directly shot down, and continues to nitpick about things.

also, from where im from (my enthusiast community OCC overclockersclub.com) I sure wouldn't be braggin' about my non-sli setup.

 

[jinny1]

I don't know what you are on but my GPU can handle more than 70c but if it does my GPU gets throttled down and the heat may damage my GPU.

rule of thumb is 60c for CPU and 70c for GPU.

 

[Master_Cirroji]

heres a legit review of your gtx 670

NVIDIA & EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card Review - Temperature & Noise Testing - Legit Reviews


"During benchmarking we found the back of the GeForce GTX 670 got up to 99C (210F) on our open air test bench with the processor being water cooled. Since we were liquid cooling the processor we didn't have much air circulated behind the card, so it got pretty toasty on the exhaust side of the PCB."

"Hynix spec says the memory can run at up to 115C max operating temp. So at 82C, you?re nowhere near the max temp the modules are rated for. If the modules were overheating you?d be seeing artifacts and other stability issues." - NVIDIA PR

so unless you know more than the people at nvidia...

ALOT of videocards casually game 10-15c over 70c 24/7. I know alot of people who participate in "folding@home (FAH)" and they blow away 70c consistantly without "burning out cards"

 

[Jennahaze]

I tought that i have old information and incompetent about these 'reducing voltage and clock speed" but no, i wasted some time to find info about it, and no success.
Yes, you card can decrease voltage/clock, but when idle.
Can you provide info link about this "technology"? Really want to look at it.

 

[theEarth]

16bit color and disabled trilinear filtering in prefs?

^Good advice

Switching to 16bit color in each d3prefs.txt made a huge difference. Had already disabled trilinear filtering and lowered Hardwareclass to 1, as this is mentioned at battlenet forums. Along with the color switch (DisplayModeBitDepth "16", from original value "32"), clients went for about 6 hours without crashing (were previously crashing every 20 minutes). Gonna try some older drivers and see if I can 86 the problem altogether. I feel like it must not be a temperature thing though if cards are able to run so hot... Nvidia system monitor reads about 53-54 at time of crash. And my fan sounds like a jet engine because I manually set it to 100%, it never goes that fast when I leave it on auto, probably because the card's not actually overheating. Anyways the fan doesn't do anything to help the crashes so... yeah.

Also in case I wasn't clear, it's only my virtual machines that stay blacked out after the driver crash. My host OS returns to normal, the driver resets itself, all of the VMs continue running and the bots keep doing their thing (I hear them hacking away and killing stuff, I just can't see any of them because the VMs turn transparent).

I suspect that this game isn't taking advantage of the card's technology or using the power efficiently and that's causing the problem. A lot of reports of this exact issue with D3, even with casual non-botters. I played SC2 at extreme settings with 150fps.

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

did you roll your driver back? and that fixed the problem? I haven't overclocked my cpu but I think it does have the unlocked multiplier. May as well start using it I suppose

 

[Master_Cirroji]

I use older drivers anymore 296.10 to be specific now, and yes it doesn't mess up anymore.

You should give it a shot! remember don't go too high if you using your stock CPU cooler!

Increasing your CPU will increase your GPU score as well (know this one directly from benchmarking)

 

[Jennahaze]

Also in case I wasn't clear, it's only my virtual machines that stay blacked out after the driver crash.

Btw, you can suspend and insta-resume VM to retreive the image back, if you dont want to reboot and set up all things again. 9/10 times you wont even be disconnected from server if your hdd is fast enough.

 

[PapaBash]

A lot of those black screens were reported as Power Option problem within the VM. When the "monitor" shuts down in a vmware it either stops refreshing the image or it turns black. Since you said now it runs 6 hours this might not be it, just putting it out there.

 

[theEarth]

296.10

Win.