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Gigabyte GTX 650 TI 2GB any Game No blue screen Card stops functioning
So I've been back and forth with Gigabyte on this card for about 2 years now. I've just about had it with those failures of Repair technicians. So Coming to you guys so I can get some more opinions on if the card is bad or if I'm just crazy.
a Little history. Back in DEC 2012 I got this new card for my older rig. These problems started happening right off the bat. I thought things were overheating as I wasn't as experienced back then with these problems as I am now. So I purchased a whole new rig, Built from the ground up Low and behold same problems kept happening. Assumed it was one of the other components RMA'd because Gigabyte swore up and down it wasn't their card and I believed them. Still problems. I started dropping this card into other Machines. Those machines started acting up. I RMA'd the card. Came back "minor damage repaired" Same problem. It's been back to them 5 times now and Each time it's returned "minor damage repaired" replacement not needed.
So Today, I took it for a spin tried various games. Things that crash it. Usually in a third person game. I'm in a vehicle and the moment i pick up speed. Card fails. Borderlands 2. sleeping dogs. It never fails. CIV 5 will crash it when I have a lot of units being pushed around on the screen alot of animation etc. Warlock will crash it for the same reason CivV does. Tera Online, Mind you this card will fail even on the lowest of settings.
Things that don't crash it. Skyrim, to an extent. WoW never crashed it. Current Wildstar will. Back during the Beta it wouldn't. Smaller games, Don't starve, Dust, Guacemole, Secondlife wouldn't crash it when I messed with it. League of Legends.
Anything with a lot of Phys X stuff going on in it will crash it. And whats worse, windows doesn't detect the crash. The card simply fails and shuts off and windows is ok with that so I can't get a BSOD error. The only error's I get is because I have to power down the machine manually and window gives the unexpected shutdown error in the logs.
If anything I hope other's read this and be forewarned about how bad Gigabyte actually is as a Company and if something breaks don't expect to get a replacement no matter how many times you send it in.
Specs
AMD A10-5800K
BIOSTAR Group Hi-Fi A85S3 (P0)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-10-24)