Hey everyone! I'm in a bit of a tough spot and could really use your advice. I recently installed a Gigabyte Windforce RTX 5070 Ti SFF into my setup, which also includes a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, and a Cooler Master V850 SFX PSU. Initially, my system was stable before the GPU installation and passed stress tests without any issues.
After the GPU installation, I managed to run some benchmarks smoothly, including Time Spy and Heaven, without any crashes. However, after attempting my first undervolt, where I set it to 900mV at 2775MHz and raised the memory clock by +2000MHz, things took a turn for the worse. Immediately after applying these settings, my benchmarks started crashing, and even after resetting everything back to defaults in Afterburner and rebooting, the crashes kept happening. I've also experienced frequent black screens and shutdowns.
I even went through the process of wiping my drivers with DDU in Safe Mode and reinstalling the latest driver (576.40), but absolutely nothing has changed; all 3D loads are still crashing. Before I consider an RMA, what do you all think I should try next?
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It sounds like you might want to DDU the drivers again and then try rolling back to version 566.36. I've heard that's been the most stable driver for Nvidia cards lately. Also, about capping the TDP on your CPU to 90W—I'm not sure that's the best way to reduce heat and noise. You might want to look into just adjusting your PBO settings instead for a more effective solution.
Just a heads up, though—I've been told you can't use drivers prior to the 50 series on these new cards.