GPU Driver bricking GPU's?

[Purity]

I was wondering if it possible for drivers to brick GPU's?

 

I had no problem with my 1070 with driver 436.02, after I updated to 436.15, I'm lucky to get 40+fps in any game.

 

My current setup :

CPU - i7 7700k @ 4.2GHz

GPU - GTX 1070 Founders

RAM - 32GB DDR4 @3000MHz

 

If anyone can help that would be great! I am looking at getting a 2070 anyways but I would like to have this as backup for my 2nd PC.

 

[Purity]

I've tried all that, nothing is working anymore. I'm afraid that it might of done something to the card itself. I've even reinstalled my Windows onto a new drive to remove all traces of the drivers.

[PCMasterRaceFTWWW]

3 minutes ago, Purity said:

I've tried all that, nothing is working anymore. I'm afraid that it might of done something to the card itself. I've even reinstalled my Windows onto a new drive to remove all traces of the drivers.

Well doing those steps should have resolved your problem. Perhaps the install had a hiccup that damaged the GPU. 

[Purity]

I guess I'm just gonna have to get a new GPU then....

[astranger200]

24 minutes ago, Purity said:

I was wondering if it possible for drivers to brick GPU's?

 

I had no problem with my 1070 with driver 436.02, after I updated to 436.15, I'm lucky to get 40+fps in any game.

 

My current setup :

CPU - i7 7700k @ 4.2GHz

GPU - GTX 1070 Founders

RAM - 32GB DDR4 @3000MHz

 

If anyone can help that would be great! I am looking at getting a 2070 anyways but I would like to have this as backup for my 2nd PC.

 

use display driver uninstaller (DDU) to clear the drivers.then install a freshly downloaded driver

[Slayer3032]

If you bricked something, you wouldn't be getting 40fps. You would be getting zero video output and the card would be functionally as useful as a brick.

 

Give DDU a shot and reinstall the latest drivers, if that doesn't work, DDU again and install the previous drivers, if that doesn't work then your problem likely isn't the drivers.