GTX 680 Artifacting Suddenly

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*PROBLEM*

Last night my GPU began artifacting after playing Chivalry for an hour.  First the screen went black and didn’t come back on, then after a reboot the Nvidia Driver crashed immediately.  I rebooted again and this time as soon as I got past the Windows lock screen, my screen became covered in small rectangular artifacts.

I was unable to get a picture myself but it was similar to this picture

*SET UP*

I have an SLI system with two GTX 680’s from EVGA.  The first card is almost 2 years old and the second is about 18 months old.  I regularly clean my hard ware of dust, my case has very good air flow, and I run an aggressive fan profile on all of my cards; Fan speed = Temp + 10%.  These cards in gaming and rendering would rarely hit 70C and during hardcore benchmarks would top out around 75C.  Average gaming temps were 52C.  The overclock on the cards is a Core=1148MHz, Mem=1700MHz, versus the stock which is 1098MHz and 1552MHz respectively.

My complete hardware:

EVGA Signature2 GTX 680’s running in SLI

Asus Z77 Sabertooth

I7 3770K @4.4GHz

32GB Corsair DDR3 @ 1866MHz

Seasonic 1000W PSU

*TESTING I HAVE DONE*

I have tested both cards individually and can find nothing wrong with the secondary card while the main card still artifacts and crashes shortly after logging into windows.  I have also tried running them in SLI in a reversed configuration where the artifacting card was the secondary card, just to try it out.  There was no artifacting but the Nvidia driver couldn’t wait to crash.  The system would not stay running long enough for me to get a temp reading on the defective card.  I have ruled out the monitor being the cause.

*PLEA FOR HELP*

I have never had problems like this before.  I do not game all that heavy but I do a fair amount of Video rendering in Adobe and 3D modeling in Blender which is what the SLI config benefitted me in most.

Is this something I could reasonably fix or is the card a paper weight now?  Does anyone need to know more information in order to help me diagnose/solve this problem?  Are there any practical uses for this card if it is borked?  Any and all help is much appreciated!

VincibleAndy

Thank you!

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Remove the oc and test again.

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I set the clocks all to -100MHz and it still artifacted and crashed right away.  So I rebooted with those same settings and had the exact same results.  I contacted EVGA and told them my problem and the tests I had run and they accepted me for an RMA.  I had completely forgotten that EVGA cards have a 3 year warranty.  The tech support ticket to RMA process was surprisingly fast and easy. I am, so far, incredibly impressed.

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And that's why EVGA kicks ass,best customer support out there,too bad they don't get AMD gpus as well :(