Gpu has been maxing out

[M305809]

I have been playing battlefield 3 on max settings with 58-60 fps on my gigabyte gtx660 oc, the problem is that after about four hours of playing textures start to go crazy. Initialy I thought it was a heat problem so i recorded the heat temperatures while play for about three hours and they stay at or around 60 C. They i nouticed the the gpu core was reaching 100%. So i would like to pair two together, so is there any way I can do this on a single monitor?(assuming that the load of the game will be shared between the two cards)

P.S. I dont want to sacrafice any graphics or play time.

[CoolBeans]

Maybe if you play for 4 hours you should think about going outside :p . And do you mean a SLI setup?

[Goldilock]

you could always sell your card and get 760 or 770. Still better option than SLI.

[Godlygamer23]

The textures shouldn't be going crazy. Have you overclocked at all? Also, what happens when you lower the frequency since it's an overclocked card?

[Profquast]

Might just be a bug in battlefield, just relaunch it after a few hours and see if the problem goes away.

[SkilledRebuilds]

You'll find that most peoples card are @ 99-100% usage playing a game, this does not mean your card is bad.

Artifacting however is.... Driver change, default clocks....many options to fix issues...

[commy]

Could be a defective card. Had the same issue with my evga GTX 560.

[M305809]

Maybe if you play for 4 hours you should think about going outside . And do you mean a SLI setup?

could i have a sli set up and just conect say, one dvi or hdmi?

[Mr. Expert]

You want your GPU to be used right that's why you bought it. Why would you want to only use some of the performance and not all is a wonder to me. When the GPU is pegged this is a good thing as it means that it is not being bottleneck by a sub par game engine or CPU.

[CoolBeans]

could i have a sli set up and just conect say, one dvi or hdmi?

Yes