670 Issues

Verethy · February 17, 2013

Just recently changed from water to aid due to moving house and losing a lot of space. So I got myself a NH-D14 for the CPU and changed to an Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II. Aftwer swapping over the cards everything ran fine for a few hours until my system restarted, of which I heard the boot sounds but had a blank screen (just running WoW). After this happened I took the card out and messed around a little with my the 2 other cards in the system (sound and wireless) and I got it to boot again. Then after playing Planetside 2 for about an hour I left the game only to have it crash on me again and boot without video.

I stuck my old card back in the system and it worked first try, so I tried a CMOS clear and it still wouldn't boot. The only way I have managed to get it to boot with the new Asus card is by sticking it in the bottom PCI-E slot, which is right next to the PSU fan so temps are just crap. Just wondering if this is a Mobo or GPU issue, mainly because the slots work fine with the old GPU, but the Asus one still works in a quick test in another system/in a different slot.

Specs:

Asus Rampage IV Formula

Intel i7 3930k @ 4.2GHz/1.3V

Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II/Galaxy GTX 670

Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB@2133MHz

Enermax Revoluion85+ 1250W

mgsstar · February 17, 2013

Did you get the latest gpu driver from the Nvidia website? The game crashing could mean that you might have corrupted or outdated drivers.

Verethy · February 17, 2013

Did you get the latest gpu driver from the Nvidia website? The game crashing could mean that you might have corrupted or outdated drivers.

Yes, I've tried both the current and Beta drivers.

I should add that when installed in the 2 slots that don't work the fans seem to be working about around 50-60% rather than the normal 10%

mgsstar · February 17, 2013

Did you try the same game on a different computer? Did you use MSI Afterburner to check the temps when playing PlanetSide2 because overheating can cause the game to crash?

Verethy · February 17, 2013

Did you try the same game on a different computer? Did you use MSI Afterburner to check the temps when playing PlanetSide2 because overheating can cause the game to crash?

I haven't tried gaming on the other computer yet. I did monitor temps whilst playing PS2 and they were fine. The game didn't crash, the computer crashed/restarted after I quit the game.