GTX 660 screen "flicker"

Rewshna · July 7, 2015

Hello, peoples,

I recently have run into trouble with my NVIDIA (Gigabyte) Geforce GTX 660.

When playing certain games, the screen will stop showing anything, then go normal, and usually switch back and forth a few times. On some games, it never comes back and I can't even Ctrl+Alt+Delete into the... Well, whatever that screen is called. Anyways, I usually have to hit my power button and then pump Esc to stop it from shutting down, but still close the program.

My PC specs are (Sorry for the useless parts in this info):

Intel i2 quad Q9550 @ 2.83 GHz (Stock speed, I haven't OC'd it)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (Gigabyte)

2x2 GB DDR3 1600 RAM (Forgot the exact company. I think it's Corsair)

1x500 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive

Antec Earthwatts 650 watt PSU

Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3P Motherboard (I think it has BIOS version 1 on it.)

I'm 99% sure my GPU isn't overheating, as I monitored the temps with two seperate programs (speedfan & realtemp), and it never goes higher than 55 C. If my CPU heating up could cause this, I've been scared to see that it reached 90 C today, and has reached 81 C before. Yes, I know that's BAD. I'm getting a cooling unit ASAP.

The games I've run into this issue with are CS:GO, Minecraft (With a mega shader on), and Unturned (Newer version, not the old V2).

A week ago this thing was running the same stuff like a champ.

Help!!

-Rewshna