EVGA 570 WORST CARD EVER

[Renzo]

Originally Posted by CoSWill

I wouldn't say that the 570 is the worst card ever, because I remember problems with the 5800's and my 4600ti had terrible artifacting until I adjusted the aperature settings in the bios.

That is different, because manufacturers didn't really follow AGP standards properly. Remember ATI cards having trouble with fast writes? On NVIDIA fast writes worked all right (and even increased performance) but enabling sideband addressing had the opportunity of making things go bad. Also, on some motherboards that had chipset from VIA (for example KT800), it was possible that you would see black triangles flashing on some games. Having a motherboard with different chipset (like nforce) pretty much got rid of the problem. I mostly saw this problem with chipsets supporting AGP 8x (or 3.0 if you will). The day I got myself a motherboard that had new enough chipset to support PCI-express, I was a happy man, and I've been that ever since. I haven't seen a single problem with PCI-E graphics cards that has been PCI-E related.

[DarkOneX]

My eVGA GTX 570 Superclocked started doing the same thing, not 2 months old even, bad artifacting and "your video driver has quit responding" black screen crap. That was a big part of the reason I built a completely new PC just a couple months ago, well that and I had my old one for 6 years so it was time, so it's frustrating as hell the new setup is doing the same crap! Sending it back, but it's free (I chose the $0 UPS ground option) but I didn't want to wait for weeks to get it back so I ordered the Gigabyte 570 3 fan version from Newegg for $344 - $30 rebate, then I'll just sell the one eVGA sends me back. Seems like every eVGA card I've bought in the past few years ends up doing this same thing, usually not after just buying it though! Hopefully the Gigabyte will be different....

[john19055]

If you have a older model of the OCZ 700 Watt PSU ,I have heard people have problems with it .I just don't see getting two bad 570's in a row.I must be lucky I have never got a bad card even when buying open boxes or recertified ones.Plus when you overclock your cpu does your PCIe stay at 100mhz.

[Eltigre88]

I have owned about 8 EVGA cards and I will never buy another brand! I really don't think it is an issue with the card.

[wheeljack12]

the only cards I will own are lifetime warranty cards being Zotac, EVGA and PNY. I have had zotac 480's and 580's,no problem. I have had evga 480 superclocked and gtx 590, no problem. Haven't had PNY since the geforce 4 days with a ti4600. No problem there either. The only nvidia cards that died instantly on me were a gigabyte geforce 2 mx200 and a hercules geforce 2 ultra. Small potatoes compared to finding out your recently sold 5970's crapped out on the buyer which I had.

[DarkOneX]

Well haven't had this new card a couple months yet and it's doing the same "display driver stopped responding and recovered" crap, it's a Gigabyte gv-n570oc-13i. I found if I downclock it from default overclock 775 core to 750 it runs a bit longer before doing it, so now I'm trying the default 732 core. I swear these damn things are junk, makes me want to just call it quits on PC gaming. Do ATI cards do this crap too? The last like 6 or more GeForce cards I've owned starting with like the GTX 8800 I believe have all had this same issue. Back in the WinXP days this never happened with any video card ever, never had trouble liket his.

[gulizard]

Its the card. Still doing this crap. I can turn off my PC and let it set for awhile, power it back up and its fine for a week, then its back to doing it again. I have built a whole new PC. I guess I'll be RMAing this card. Thanks EVGA for telling my old rig was the issue, when it wasn't... I too will not be buying another EVGA card. I miss BFG, and I miss when companies didn't try to rip you off with stupid shipping methods. By the time I get this thing lined out, I'll have almost 100 bucks in shipping cost... this being the second time I'll be sending the card back. I haven't been on my PC much due to a bad wreck, thus the reason in my lack of response about the card.

[jcrox]

Originally Posted by gulizard

Its the card. Still doing this crap. I can turn off my PC and let it set for awhile, power it back up and its fine for a week, then its back to doing it again. I have built a whole new PC. I guess I'll be RMAing this card. Thanks EVGA for telling my old rig was the issue, when it wasn't... I too will not be buying another EVGA card. I miss BFG, and I miss when companies didn't try to rip you off with stupid shipping methods. By the time I get this thing lined out, I'll have almost 100 bucks in shipping cost... this being the second time I'll be sending the card back. I haven't been on my PC much due to a bad wreck, thus the reason in my lack of response about the card.

Is your sig current?

Because if it is, I would bet it's an issue with the 780i and not the card.

The 750i was a bit more stable but, if I remember correctly, that was just a re-branded 6xx series chipset.

I had nothing but problems with nVidia chipsets. Thought I had a bad eVGA 8800GTX for the longest time. Works perfect with my intel chipset.

[gulizard]

Originally Posted by jcrox

Is your sig current?

Because if it is, I would bet it's an issue with the 780i and not the card.

The 750i was a bit more stable but, if I remember correctly, that was just a re-branded 6xx series chipset.

I had nothing but problems with nVidia chipsets. Thought I had a bad eVGA 8800GTX for the longest time. Works perfect with my intel chipset.

Sig isn't current no longer. I got a sandybridge setup. My 260 GTX ran fine on the old setup though, never had one issue with it, or my 8800 GTX. Its certainly the card, its odd because if I turn the power off to the pc completely, like actually take the cord from the powersupply, press the power button to verify no more power built up, and I leave it for 10 mins I can run a few weeks before the issue starts happening. What happens is my flash videos such as youtube start having lines through them, not real bad, but annoying. Then pretty soon my computer will freeze but the video keeps playing, or at least the sound does as if its all working. Sometimes it'll recover by resetting the display, other times it'll not do anything and I have to press the power button in to shut it down.

[i SPY]

This new card played fine the other night for BC2, and tonight it started artifacting real bad during BC2 menu, restarted fix the menu issue, then went in-game it ****ed up in-game this time. Trees were grey, and lines from the gun. Crysis 2 runs fine, again its DX9. Firefox and BC2 are fubared. Can barely seem to type this, the txt keeps flickering...

btw this is 100% 275.xx driver fault.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...post&p=1246259


try 270.61whql until nvidia fixes it in official 280 whql driver (in 2-3 weeks or so).

280beta (next week) won't contain this fix yet, well at least that Nv Forums Technical Advisor ManuelG said so ~1-2 weeks ago.

[john19055]

Have you tried setting your CPU clocks and memory if overclocked to there default settings.,I remember once I had two 8800GTS running in SLI and I had my Q6600 overclocked to 3.6gigs and everthing worked fine.Then I got a pair of 280GTX running in SLI and It would blue screen and I had artifacts playing some games .Once I downclocked my Q6600 to 3.4gigs everthing went to normal no more artifacting or BSOD.I also had some drivers give me problems before.

[DarkOneX]

john not sure who you were asking but yes in my case with both cards one of hte first things I did was go back to all stock clocks on my CPU and memory and same issue existed, only downclocking the core of the GTX fixes it so that tells me it has to be the card. It's not getting hot either, especially this one, it's idling in the mid 40's during this 105F+ heatwave we've been having all summer and it only gets up to like 70F during gaming.