[FS] EVGA GTX 570 SC Shipped [SOLD]

[elwoodz]

CARD IS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hey HWC'ers,

Heres the deal, I have a EVGA GTX 570 SC that I'm trying to get rid of. The reason for the cheap price is that about a month ago I noticed it began to artifact on Crysis 2 and crash to desktop when watching you tube or any video rendering program. In EVGA OC Scanner it was showing thousands of artifacts also. I originally thought my overclock on my CPU failed but this was not the case, as it CTD/artifacted when I was at stock CPU clocks(also ran memtest for 24 hours). So I reverted the GPU back to stock clocks of a regular GTX 570 and it was still doing this, I even bumped up the voltage a bit with ELEET, no help.

Finally I shutdown my computer took out the card and voila, once i put it back in works again, no artifacts, no CTD, runs perfect... Until about a week later.

After reading on the forums I realized I wasn't the only one who had this problem. I personally run my computer 24/7 and usually after a week the artifacting starts, its not a temperature problem as my temps are perfectly fine. the card works fines if I turn off my computer(cold boot) and restart it again.

This basically is the only temporary fix i can think do, so once a week I have to do a cold boot and the card is fine for another week, also I cant RMA since I'm the second owner of this card. EVGA really has to look into this problem.

I bought 2 new card already and just want to get rid of this 570,
so if your interested I'm selling it for [SOLD].
PAYPAL is the preferable payment as I dont have EMT. (My Bank doesn't offer the service).

Comes with EVGA 570 Backplate also.

PM me if your interested

[Alpine]

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[zsamz_]

mine

[supaflyx3]

AFAIK this isnt an EVGA only issue, LPfan had the same issue with his zotac 570 IIRC.

[zoob]

Same thing happened with my GTX 560Ti...

[trayton]

Strange is there a post anywhere on here about these issues and perhaps some other resolutions besides restarting? What would cause it to be fine after a restart anyway? Only thing I can think of is a short in the fan cable or something?

[zoob]

It seems like some kind of feedback control in the power circuitry that goes into some unstable oscillation if left on for a very long time. I actually posted about the same type of stability issue in the Gigabyte GTX560 Ti SOC thread -- the review sample I purchased from here exhibited some very strange behaviour (crashing in 3D mode) until a cold boot.

Knock on wood the EVGA GTX580 that I now have has not exhibited this type of behaviour -- it's been left on for a couple of weeks with no issues whatsoever.