[GTX 560Ti] Artifacts and Crashes.

Question

I'll try to make this as painless as possible for it has been a huge pain in the rear for me. I've owned this card since April 2011 and since the very first time I used it to play games it worked GREAT!! Later on that same night I used it to watch a movie on it my projector. Half way through the movie I started to notice green dots as they started to jump around all over the screen it just went black and my projector stated that there was no signal. I hoped it was not my projector going out, I tested it out with my HTPC as it was always being used with that and always worked good. Everything was fine with the HTPC same movie was finished on it.
This is where the horror begins sort of like being in the twilight zone. I proceed to restart my pc with the 560ti with my monitor plugged into it this time around. Everything looked okay, I went on to play games, it worked fine. I started to doubt my projector or maybe a bad connection on my part or something. I decided to go watch some youtube videos and I started seeing those ugly green dots and bam my monitor goes black "No Signal" for a short second and I am greeted by the "driver has stopped working." as it powers back on. I go to nvidia and download the latest stable driver available at that time and did a clean install. Next day everything worked! I didn't see any of those little GREEN MONSTERS and thought that was the end of them. Three days go by while attempting to play rift, I saw objects all over the place Huge black triangles and rectangles. At this point I knew something had to be wrong with this card and I began my long and tiring process of trouble shooting it.
I tried using nvidia's ref clocks nothing, rolled back to the original driver nothing, reinstalled windows with latest nvidia drivers nothing. I posted in the nvidia forums on this problem and people stated that I should wait til the drivers mature. A year has almost passed I tried all of the drivers they have released and am currently on 295.73 still the same problem, only as an added bonus now it will artifact on desktop as well doing nothing. I have tried everything from switching browsers to disabling hardware acceleration nothing I mean NOTHING works. I wish I hadn't waited this long and returned it that same week I bought it. The only temporary fix for this is to shutdown your pc and remove the power cord from the power supply and then press on the power button to let all of the current from the components to discharge and then plug it all back in and you get a day or two with no artifacts.
The only thing I learned from this was well, I payed premium for a OVERCLOCKED card for them to tell me to down clock it to stock. I could have very well bought a ref card for a lot less. I don't know who's at fault here MSI or nVidia. As if it weren't already inconvenient enough that my product failed and or never worked properly, MSI says I am responsible for the shipping If I decide to do an RMA. While it's not expensive to ship I feel as if I was ripped off from day one and listening to people telling me to wait while drivers mature. I feel this incident will make me stray away from MSI even though I loved their products at a point and time.
Here's my system specs doubt it matters though.
i7 2600k @ 4.8GHz
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
Patriot 2x4GB 1866MHz RAM
MSI GTX 560 Ti twin frozr OC
Crucial 64GB Boot SSD
2x 1 TB storage HD's
Windows 7 64bit
Before anyone says my cpu clocks are probably not stable thus causing this, I've had these things happen at stock clocks as well.

Answer 1

Quote from: Svet on 07-March-12, 05:43:29
test the card in another computer
I tried this I forgot to mention it, it ran furmark and kombuster for 2 minutes without starting to artifact followed by freezing the whole system on a i7 950 which worked fine with a 6950 that was previously in the system. I even tested the known and working 6950 in my system with no problems. It's this card that is the problem the 560ti ref clocks don't even work, and it has never been over clocked maybe I was just unlucky with the chip that came with it but I have no idea how this card passed the quality check. To make it worse it seems like a bunch of us have the same problem with these cards why all of them passed quality checks is beyond me but I think nvidia should recall all of this cards and figure out what is going wrong with them and stop telling us that they can't reproduce the problem we are all having. I would be glad to send them my card to show them how badly they messed up with this one.