GTX 670 PE OC - Game Crashing

I have had this card for close to 6 months, and have just started experiencing issues with crashing. I constantly get the TDR error and sometimes have to actually force the computer to reboot otherwise the screen will just stay black. I can move the mouse and see the secondary display but nothing shows on the primary display but the taskbar and black screen.
My current setup is as follows
i5 3570K
16Gb Corsair 1600
MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming
670 PE OC
Corsair HX750
CM Hyper 212 Evo
Rosewill Blackhawk Case
I did run Memtest and found that I had some bad RAM, so I replaced it ran Memtest again and everything checked out fine. I also ran the Intel stress test for an hour and found no issues.
I had this card in an Asus P8P67-Pro before and had no issues whatsoever.
Also I just bought an Asus VG23PQE for my primary monitor, could the 120 - 144Hz display rates be causing the issue?
For example, last night I played Metro Last Light for over an hour with no issues, then suddenly the game crashes to a black screen. Cannot open task manager or anything, the black screen covers all applications. I have to either sign out and then sign back in using CTRL+ALT+DEL or manually reset the computer. Also if I sign out and then sign back in, if I try to relaunch the game it immediately crashes. I have to reboot the computer in order to play any games.
I was using driver 320.18 then I tried the latest Beta 320.49, then back to 306.xx and always have the same issues of crashing. Could it be the motherboard causing all the issues? Just getting really frustrated as this seems to keep happening regardless of what I try to do to fix it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I checked the pins extremely closely and they are spot on, I re seated the CPU and cooler and used Prolimatech PK-3 this time instead of Arctic Silver 5. As a side note I have to say that this thermal paste is quite a bit better than AC5. I am old school so I have been using Arctic Silver since the Williamette days with RDRAM when I would spread the stuff on the CPU heatsink. I tried this time just using the vertical line method.
Anyways, I think it is all down to the Nvidia driver causing the crashes, I actually have installed a MSI GTX770 Gaming and am no longer, thumbs crossed, having the issues. It seems that the 770 runs cooler at idle, and if I ramp up the fan speed it is much quieter than the 670. I think that the mobo is fine, again possibly the Nvidia drivers?
As a side note, flobelix I also have the 830 256Gb drive as my primary.

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I recently purchased a GTX 670, did a format and everything was working fine but as of yesterday I keep getting 'Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver Version 314.22 has stopped working and recovered'. I get the error message as soon as I boot up, no applications or games loaded, it just crashes on desktop.
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Have the same issue, but the steps taken to reproduce this error is slightly different, computer was working fine the day before and this issue only arised yesterday without me installing or doing anything to the computer in the time inbetween.
PC specs
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
Gskill 8GB ram (can't remember the model, at work now)
MSI GTX 670 OC edition
Intel I5 3570K i think
Windows 8
OS HDD - Crucial M4 128gb
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1.)Was watch youtube on 1080p yesterday and after ~40 minutes; nearing the end of 40 mins, the video and sound slows to a crawl where each spoken word was produced one at a time
2.)Closed the browser (firefox)and the PC had stuttering issues - Cursor freezed for a good 20 seconds and then became normal again whereupon after 2-3 minutes of normal usage it freezes up again (Noticed that the CPU was running a full load after each freeze for a good 1-2 seconds)
3.)After 5-6 minutes of stuttering a windows notification comes up and says that Nvidia 314.22 kernel mode has crashed and has been recovered (Only able to reproduce this twice, it never appears again)
4.)Thereafter I launched a game to try to see if it was an isolated issue with the browser/plugin - less than 10 minutes of playthrough, the game hanged with looped sound and freezed screen, bringing up the Ctrl - Alt - Del menu and selecting task manager brings a black screen and the PC restarts on its own
5.)Proceeded to do a clean uninstall of the 314.22 drivers and installed the 306.97 driver provided by MSI
6.)Updated the SSD firmware
7.)Same issue ingame after that, intermittent screen freezes where after close to 8 minutes of play, screen froze and sound looped
Solutions tried but failed -
1.)Updating SSD firmware
2.)Rolling back of drivers - the kernel mode recovery notification no longer appears but the pc just freezes and sound loop outright ingame
3.)Trying to locate the malware(Manual search for the file and using Malwarebytes) - Iehighutil.exe but none found, gpu load and temp looks normal in gpu-z when the freezes occur
Have no idea why this error arised, nothing was installed/changed between the time it was fine and the error arose. Have read that it could be the windows update KB2807986 but i doubt so as that's for windows 7?
Power supply seems to be fine as well, have not run memtest on ram but i doubt its the ram - seeing as how the notification mentioned nvidia driver kernel mode.
Please help or try to provide solutions that are feasible if possible.
Thank you and sorry for the lengthy post.

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I can't find the temperature specs for this card, but the reference GTX 670 should run up to 97°C.
Is this normal? What is your maximum stable temperature?
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Hi there,
the only think I could suggest is that ...
1st. do you have adequate cooling in your system..i.e. case fans etc,etc, and to ensure theres no obstruction to cooling fan on vga card, always an alternative is to install what they call an exhaust blower fan place that directly underneath your card and that will extract heat away, I had the same issue with my MSI 6570 card and as soon as I added an exhaust blower mine runs at 33oC and i'm pushing my card to the extreme and temp still stays the same... if that fail then your gpu cooling issnt running fast enough to supply adequate cool air...
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Hi. I posted my problem on the nvidia forums and they suggested I RMA my graphics card and get it replaced... I thought I would post it here to see if anyone could help me...
This issue has started about a few days ago and it has been bugging me because I can't play any pc games for longer than about a minute. Anyway, so the problem is, after about 10 seconds of playing any pc game(I'm using the game minecraft as an example) my computer COMPLETELY freezes and blue squares appear. There is nothing I can do other than switch off the power. Even my mouse pointer freezes. I don't think it's an 'overheating' problem because I let it cool down for 24 hours and the problem persists.
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I recently bought a new GTX 670 with the hopes that it would accelerate my video editing in Premiere. After using the "nVidia hack" to add it to the list of CUDA supported cards, I started up Premiere, enabled GPU acceleration in the general project preferences window, and was disappointed to find that my performance appeared to be identical to what I had experienced with my non compatible HD 6870s.
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Sound Card Problem, or Driver Problem? Games crash, when they didn't befo

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Incredibly terrible overclocks with MSI GTX 670 PE/OC

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Gtx 670 reference ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional

my gtx 670 sli setup does not matter whether single card or chills fatal1ty choppy and consists of all the games .. mpower there is no problem, but when I wear .. If you do not have been inconsistent with the roof of the Fatal1ty motherboard has a problem ...

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my gtx 670 sli setup does not matter whether single card or chills fatal1ty choppy and consists of all the games .. mpower there is no problem, but when I wear .. If you do not have been inconsistent with the roof of the Fatal1ty motherboard has a problem ...
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-ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 single card or dual card in the game ...
- two msi gtx 670 reference design ..
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-settings are the same games, but there is no problem mpower
-There is no problem for the same games mpower

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Looks like Nvidia has given MSI a bashing for allowing voltage adjustments with these cards.
Disappointing as the actual box states:
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http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm#
MSI Afterburner Version 2.2.4 (2012/9/18)
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Sadly Nvidia really dictated this cut down. MSI had to follow. I keep on using 2.2.3 which keeps everything as it should. Poor 660ti users have no choice as only 2.2.4 supports this model. Right now there is no workaround for that gpu.
It's a shame really, I already have a GTX 670 that does 1340/7406, but on Thursday I decided to buy the MSI GTX 670 OC PE, having read this:
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MSI’s cards have continually impressed us with their willingness to overclock to impressive levels. With a bit of coaxing via MSI’s AfterBurner software to maximize the Power Limit and add 100mV to the core and memory voltage (PLL was also increased by 50mV) the GPU hit an impressive 1388MHz while the memory petered out at 6524MHz. Both of those clock speeds are personal bests but we have a feeling like there’s more in the tank should MSI decide to release a GTX 670 Lightning.
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Hi!
I have a weird issue with my card. During for example 3dmark 11, this card throttles down gpu mhz. Even with stock clocks.
Power target never goes over 103%, even if i put it to the max 114%. Temperature never goes over 65ºC so that doesn't cause this.
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Immppa from finland

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@SVet, I can do that if I get any issue. Just installed the card on a new machine and was thinking preventitive. I had heard that the N580GTX/OC had stabilitiy issues that required bios upgrades. Before I start crashing my machine, I was hoping to just go with a bios change that has worked for someone else.
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Today I've got a question about the MSI GTX 670 Power Edition OC graphics card.
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Greetz, `NX.

Quote from: `NX on 10-February-13, 23:06:14
I mean, I was wondering if going with Radeon 7970 wouldn't be a better idea
But I'm not sure of Radeons.
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so what do you plan to do with your graphics card? generally Nvidia ones are better all round but it depends on what your doing with them to which way is better!

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Cpu: Intel Core i5-2500K @4.3Ghz
MoBo: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
RAM; Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz 8GB
SSD: Samsung 840 evo (250gb)
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