hey you guys - I have a 470 from Gigabyte that's acting up and I want advice on how to make sure it is the video card causing problems. I bought in new in Nov. 2010, put it to pretty heavy use in C4D and ZBrush, less demanding in Premiere Pro.
Symptoms started 2 weeks ago - a few "exceeded Time-Out limit" errors when the card hit >70C caused the driver to fail then reload itself. This weekend I got the first BSOD and artifacting - even with temps below 50C. bluescreenview says the NV driver is the culprit on all 3 BSODs.
When the first symptoms started I pulled the card and applied new TIM (AS-5). Everything appeared perfectly fine. I guess the naked eye won't reveal a broken trace but fwiw the board looks straight and the electronics look intact.
I've tried rolling back the driver a few times - it seemed to help for a few days, then the Time-Out errors began again. I tried running OCCT and it spat out errors almost immediately.
I wonder if there's anything you recommend before I try baking this card (for the hell of it; i don't really expect it to cure it). I haven't run memtest(86) in awhile but I really doubt this is RAM-related. The PSU is acting normal, no hiccups ..
Is there anything besides the video card possibly causing these errors and BSOD...?
Thanks you guys.