Faulty 980 Ti?

[Krystolyte]

So a couple of weeks ago I bought a used 980 Ti off ebay which was advertised a fully working.

 

I didn't notice any problems at all until a few days after receiving it when I was playing star citizen, every shadow on every object flashes whenever I move my mouse but I just put this down to the game being in early alpha, no big deal. I did find it strange how none of my friends had the same issue but wasn't too bothered about it.

One of these friends tells me I should run a synthetic benchmark like Unigine Heaven just in case it is actually a hardware problem, so off I go to download heaven.

 

I run the benchmark all the way through on the extreme preset (1600x900, not a challenge for a 980 Ti) and get an average fps of 57 and a score of 1460. I doubt I have a cpu bottleneck with an overclocked 3570k. I looked at afterburner which I had open when I was running the benchmark and the maximum power used was 55% despite the gpu usage being at 100% which seems strange.

 

Does anyone know why the score is so low? Is this anything to do with the weird shadow in star citizen? Is this problem fixable or is this card permanently broken?

[iLoiter]

I'm getting bad vibes from that card, those scores are very low. Did you update latest graphic drivers?

[xAcid9]

Which model? Did you accidentally force max AA in NVCP? Try DDU and reinstall the driver

How about the clock speed while playing games?

[Krystolyte]

1 hour ago, iLoiter said:

I'm getting bad vibes from that card, those scores are very low. Did you update latest graphic drivers?

 

1 hour ago, xAcid9 said:

Which model? Did you accidentally force max AA in NVCP? Try DDU and reinstall the driver

How about the clock speed while playing games?

Updated the drivers and that seems to have fixed it *facepalm*