GTX690 Clock Stick?

[Osiris Fox]

Ive been recently having issues with my GTX690. A restart cures these problems but sometimes, more than one restart is necessary and it's really troubling. Ive overclocked my card to a GPU offset of 130MHz, Power Target of 135% and MEM clock offset of +300MHz. At times, the card will REFUSE to go above 700MHz. (Or right around there, give or take 20MHz). the fans don't ramp up, the power usage is low, it just sits there... restarting usually eliminates the problem but now another issue has come up. Sometimes, the clocks will be fine and get to around 1176MHz but when I hit CTRL ALT DEL, the windows ultimate screen does not fill the monitor all it once, rather, it slowly fills the monitor from top to bottom. Even tho the MHz are high, any game will lag to hell and get around 20FPS. Earlier today, I had to restart 3 times to make sure neither problem was present before I started gaming. This is really scaring me and I wonder if my card is on the slippery road of no return. 

 

This is my 4th GTX 690 I have received from EVGA custom support. My first card mysteriously got some sort of gunk build up in the display ports and would no longer recognize one of my monitors (Don't ask me how the hell that happened, my only guess was cheaply made monitor cords from hong kong, so I replaced them immediately after sending the card out). My 2nd 690 fluctuated crazy from 80% usage to 30% usage almost every 5 seconds. My third card... honestly, I can't remember the problem with that one, and now this... 

 

Any tips or advice on how you would handle this? I paid $1000.00 at the time and Ive had headache after headache with the 690. Can you demand a NEW 690? (Customer support confirmed they are cards with light use, but he made clear they are not refurbished).  Currently running latest driver according to nvidia website, 320.18

 

 

Fox

[xToFxREAPER]

I have yet to have any issues with my first evga 690 though my friend has had similar issues to yours with his card. He was planning on re installing windows as it was cause he wanted to try out windows 8 and that seemed to fix his problems, when he rolled back to windows 7 cause he hated windows 8 the problem never came back, so our guess was something wrong with the oc program such as precision or something, maybe try uninstalling it and getting rid of all traces of it (such as going into your registry and deleting all entries that are left over and what not) then re install the program, maybe thatll fix your clocking issues, or maybe try closing and restarting your oc program a few times instead of the whole computer and see if that fixes it the next time it does it

[R4STABAN]

You must have issues elsewhere if you've had to RMA so many graphics cards. What power supply do you have?

 

- try using a different overclocking software

- roll back to better drivers (306.xx or 310.xx)