Did you overclock it your self or is the factory overclock that's causing it to be unstable? If it's the latter you should RMA.

BeerMage

It's the latter. I'm way too scared to do stuff like overclocking and such. The guy at the store just installed it in my rig and then this problem started.

[QUOTE="Vravage"]

[QUOTE="kraken2109"] Yeah you should be able to.kraken2109

Right, I installed Kombustor and Afterburner. What should I do/change?

That fixed it. I (finally) have no more problems playing games. Does this mean the amount of horsepower that I disabled is completely useless? Or can I go to 100% in, for example, 2015, when games have become more demanding?

Also, I do want to thank you for your immense help!!

[QUOTE="Vravage"]

[QUOTE="kraken2109"]

Sounds like the driver is crashing, and when it restarts it won't clock up.

That happens when I overclock my GPU too much, try downclocking.

kraken2109

Okay, so how do I go about doing that? In MSI Afterburner?

Right, I installed Kombustor and Afterburner. What should I do/change?

Sounds like the driver is crashing, and when it restarts it won't clock up.

That happens when I overclock my GPU too much, try downclocking.

kraken2109

Okay, so how do I go about doing that? In MSI Afterburner?

Yes, my GPU is a MSI GTX660TI Power Edition Overclocked (PE OC). How does one downclock a GPU? If the problem goes away, I should send back the card, but what if it doesn't?

Yes, the latest drivers have been installed.

I recently upgraded my computer and instead of ATI I put in a GTX 660Ti, but new stuff woulnd't be new stuff if they weren't plagued by goddamn annoying problems with it. First off, when I try to play Sleeping Dogs or test my performance with 3DMark 11 both applications close after about five minutes and the following messages come up. It's either: "HKShip.exe has stopped working." or "Nvidia kernel mode has stopped working and has been recovered" or something like that.

Another problem that I have is with some games (Several Call of Duty titles, Splinter Cell: Conviction, I only have been testing it for 2 weeks) minimizes to desktop after a random time. You are allowed to click on the application again but gone is your smooth framerate replaced by a stuttering mess.

If anybody has any idea's on how to fix these, I'm happy to listen.

I had problems with my former card and I switched to it's concurrent to avoid these kinds of problems. ATI and NVidia are no different. D'oh well.

Bump.

No need for 16gb, 8gb is more then enough, and for the cpu cooler, change it to a Hyper 212+ or Hyper 212+ EVO, they cool better and cost less. Rest looks great.04dcarraher

Thank you for your input.

I like to come to these forums because people always help me out here. I'm ready to buy a new rig and I'm using this website to buy my hardware:

http://www.alternate.nl/html/configurator/builder/pc/page.html

It's in Dutch but I think PC hardware only speaks one language we can all understand. I have a budget of maximum 1300 euros. The rig I want is a powerful gaming PC, but not obsessively OMGWTF kind of rig. Just an awesome beast. The stuff I think is good would be the following:

-EVGA GTX 670

-ASRock Z77 Extreme4

-G. Skill 16 Gigs of RAM

-Cooler Master V8

-Silverstone Case (no idea what model yet)

-Intel i5-3570k

My questions are:

-Do you guys think the above hardware is any good? Would they 'gel' together nicely?

-Can you guys fill in the blanks? For example the harddrive and so forth...

Any help would be really appreciated.