I'm thinking fuck, did I get a faulty GPU or what. Nope, still crashing at or even below stock clocks now. So next I tried a few, only like 2-3 available drivers at the time, different driver versions thinking this could be the cause, doing a full clean install of the drivers each time. I was STILL having the exact same crashes, and sometimes it would hardlock the system. I went all the back to stock, which is listed as 1367 but in reality was 1418 for this card. So I dial back 5 at a time on the core clock to find stability. I thought damn, must have pushed it too far. I could 'only' get the card to 1505 core at first then the screen, only on one monitor - the one with the benchmark runnin, would grey screen.

Then I started started overclocking the card and the real problems started to come out. At first it seemed okay, even though it'd randomly stop tracking some information such as framerate and frametime - and the OSD would only work sporadically. I picked up an EVGA GTX 980 last week and thought, what the hell - let's give Precision a go.

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