New here, but wondering if anyone can help me?

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Hey :)

 

I'm new here, so I'm sorry if it seems a bit rude to right away ask for help after joining. I'm having a problem with my current PC, Specs I'll post below as best I can. The main thing is I am currently running 2 GTX 480s in SLI. The cards are fine, but I just wanted to have a quieter system overall, so I decided just to change my cards and got myself a GTX 670. When I installed it, everything seemed fine until I decided to try some games. At which point either instantly or within a minute of having a game running my whole PC would freeze and I'd have to force a reboot.

I looked online and couldn't find anything that fixed the issue, so I sent the card back and had it tested and they found it was fine. I thought that was weird and got a refund. I then decided to try a Asus 660ti instead, and found that it has the exact same problem as the 670 did. Within a minute of being in a game, or heaven benchmark, the whole PC would freeze and I'd have to force a reboot.

I've put the 480s back in and they work fine still, so I really have no idea what the problem is. If anyone has any ideas I'd really like to hear them as I really can't figure out the issue.

My specs are -

Asus Rampage 2 extreme

Intel i7 930 2.8ghz Overclocked to 4.2ghz

6GB DDR3 1600Mhz RAM

Corsair 950w PSU (I'm not sure which I'm afraid)

 

I'm sorry if this isn't enough info to go by, but I'll try and answer any questions I can if anyone has any, but I may be a bit slow to understand some stuff due to the fact I suffer from autism. Anyway Thanks in advance for anything :)

 

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I'm going completely out on a limb here, but it almost sounds like a power issue. Maybe the card isn't getting enough power, but if you can run 2x 480's, you should be able to run a 670 just fine. Could be a driver issue?

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hi, Thanks for the reply!

Yeah I have a weird feeling it's a power issue somehow, but as you said, I can run 2 480s without any problems at all. I've also tried a lot of drivers, removing all of them before putting new ones on and I've still not found a solution. :(

If it comes to it, I'll just stick with my 480s for now, I'd just really like to find the issue because it seems weird to me.

Thanks again for the reply :)

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Sounds to me like it could be your new card, try to install it in a known good system and see if it does the same fails on that system, if so it is the card, which is my bet as the sli cards still work well in the said same system....

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sounds like it might be your mobo or cpu overheating. I know on my mom's desktop w/ a gene ii, the northbridge tends to overheat.