I would like to know if folks who use the Geforce 560 series of cards have had ANY issues since installation. It appears Nvidia may have some serious issues with this card. Post if you've had a good card or if you have not.....appreciate it.

Edited February 14, 201214 yr by Hornit

I would like to know if folks who use the Geforce 560 series of cards have had ANY issues since installation. It appears Nvidia may have some serious issues with this card.

Really? Never heard that. What kind of issues?Kind regards,

Ive been reading several tech forums/blogs over the last moth and it appears there are many industry folks who think that 60-% of all 560 cards may have hardware problems. There are MANY, MANY cases of people RMA'ing these cards two and even three times and not getting a good one. Personally Im on my first RMA of my GF 560ti OC. I have read NUMEROUS accounts of significant problems with this card in the last two to three months. So many that If i had known about it, I would not have bought this card. Currently running a Radeon 6970 in my rig and its fine. The EVGA unit I have was wonky from the get go and became almost useless within about two weeks. For starters just go read the Nvidia Geforce 500 series forums....tons of problems. I am curios how many folks here have seen artifacting, BSOD's, or TDR's with these cards..the "Driver has stopped responding" alerts to be specific. The very first time I dropped the 560 out of my system and did a clean install of my Radeon, everything I had been seeing went away. Im on a new build here and everything you can think of was tested and retested, system is solid, and temps are not nor ever have been an issue.

My experience has been that when you visit the manufacturer support forums, 90% of posts will be from people experiencing problems, i.e. I've never gone to the forums of Asus/Corsair/AMD/ATI/XFX/BFG/MSI/Sapphire to post when I am happy with their products and have 0 problems, but I have visited only when I have problems and want to see if it is a known issue or to get support.I've found a better measure of the overall customer satisfaction with products or particular model of a product seems to be either online shopping sites that allow a customer to review the product after purchase especially ones that allow detailed and negative feedback (such as Amazon or NewEgg which I used even for the times I don't purchase there), and of course sim enthusiast sites like AVSIM or other hardware enthusiast or overclocking sites.With that said i've tested/used my recently purchased 560 on all the sims and games that my previous 5870s worked well with and each time I have not ran into any of the problems you are seeing, and have also come away really impressed with the performance improvement that the 560 is giving me, even at significant overclock it has been very stable.I'm not doubting that you are having problems though, best approach when I have that situation is to return the item in the first 30 days from the place I bought it from (why I have been testing so many games to shake it out thoroughly while I can return it), or if past that 30 day refund period then RMA with the manufacturer, and then after RMA if my opinion of the product has soured so badly maybe even consider selling the RMA model as such and cutting my losses and buying something else that will make me happier.Best wishes on you getting a good resolution to your problems Hornit, it sounds like no fun at all for you right now.

Yeah, I had all of those problems with my 560Ti. I fixed it by uninstalling, and RMA'ing, Battlefield 3.

It's quite unfortunate that many people are having such problems with Nvidia. Although, on the other side of things, I have a AMD HD 5870 that just got back from the RMA facility from Gigabyte.The issues with the card were not fixed. I am either going to email them or call them demanding a refund or them to ship me a new one. There customer service was awful and they didn't even bother to tell me what they did to the card itself when it was being "fixed".Customer service is about a 2 out 10.

This is a bit off topic, but as far as product support itself goes, I have always had excellent service from both Newegg and EVGA, which I rate at 10/10.Kind regards,

EVGA has been fantastic and quick so far. Ive been around this stuff for a while and this is the first time Ive seen such a huge percentage of one model video card have this many folks complain. The other side of the coin could be that a lot of folks are too lazy to complain or find a forum. I always go to the forums FIRST. The answers are usually there. Unfortunately with this particular chipset/card it seems if you are NOT seeing problems count yourself very lucky.

This is a bit off topic, but as far as product support itself goes, I have always had excellent service from both Newegg and EVGA, which I rate at 10/10.Kind regards,

I should have always stuck with EVGA but they don't manufacture AMD GPU's. It is quite unfortunate that customer service these days is so marginal in many large corporations.My 450 is under EVGA though so if I ever run into problems, I likely will have good customer support!

Hi Hornet,There does seem to be a lot of people having problems, thankfully, I'm not one of them. I had a look at the Nvidia forums, one thing surprised me. The usual comment was; Nvidia needs to fix this problem with their cards and drivers. Well, I can tell you , they won't. simply because, there is, no problem with the chipset or drivers.For every person having problems, there are hundreds of thousands who are not, so the issue is not Nvidia.We have to remember that Nvidia do not manufacture video cards, they make the chipset and supply the drivers. The cards are made by Asus, EVGA, leadtec, sparkle etc. etc.We all want the best, and tests like Toms Hardware, compare the performance of each card, and the EVGA card has always been one of the top performers, this is due to the fact that it is overclocked at the factory, ( evga factory, not Nvidia ) now we even have 'superclocked cards' Following the forums, it seems EVGA are having the most problems.So we ask; what the hell is going on. Most of us follow Nick Needam's setup guides etc. but he makes one thing VERY clear, do not overclock anything, untill all software and drivers are installed, the reason is, that having an overclocked system can lead to corrupted driver downloads and the like. The competion in the market place has led to card manufactures pushing the clock speeds of the cards to the limit, ie. overclocked to the max. Then they are tested with current drivers and all is well, this is evident on the Nvidia forums, with some saying that their cards worked fine with the original drivers supplied on the disk, but failed when updating drivers, we all know that with every new 'series' of driver release, new things are added, this can push an overclocked card over the edge. To me, if something worked and then you changed something, and it failed, I would simply go back to what worked???What is the answer, I really don't know, there are far more knowlegable folks here on this forum than me.What I do know is; I have used Nvidia cards for FS for more than 10 years, never, ever, had an issue like what you describe, or what is descibed on the Nvidia forums.every system is different, . but then EVGA cards are extremely difficult to buy here in Aus, I have always used Asus or lower clocked cards without any problems.I have several computers running FSX, 560TI card, 570GTX, 580GTX and 9800GTX, never, ever, seen the errors you describe or what is on the Nvidia forums, all driver versions tested. There is no solution anywhere on the Net that I can find.Just my opinion,Ron.What it means to me is that, it's not an Nvidia issue, as my system and thousands of others do not suffer from these errors.

I've had my GTX 560ti since April of last year. I keep up with the latest WHQL drivers and do try beta drivers. Several months ago I had an issue with ... "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 285.62 stopped responding and has successfully recovered." So far the issue seems to have been resolved by doing a clean install of the latest WHQL. I am currently using beta 295.51 in tandem with NVIDIA Inspector 1.9.5.9 That along with all of the popular FSX tweaks, I can say that FSX has never looked and run better for me.

I have the MSI 560 TI OC and have had no problems with it. I have had it for about a year and run it almost every day. I have seen the odd issue with certain driver versions, but, the issue was with the driver. Once I uninstalled the problem driver and re-installed the previous driver, all was well again.

Edited February 19, 201214 yr by DannyR

I have had several TDRs, Timeout Detection and Recovery, errors with my 560 Ti since I got my PC back in August 2011. I am aware of the problem posted on the nVidia website and will probably try a newer driver once I hear more people having success. For those interested, W7 has a nice feature which shows your PC's Reliability History. Just type "reliability' in your windows search box. I check mine often to track issues that might require more attention.Airbus

One thing to consider with factory OC graphic cards is that vendors sometimes bios mod the gpu voltage higher than 'normal' so they can hit a stable OC with less than stellar binned gpus (this really sucks IMO). Unfortunately this leads to hotter (read noisier) running cards whose lifetime may be shortened. Also, in some cases this is just a short term fix that fails in a few weeks/months. I've read many posts by 560 ti owners who had this situation with their factory OC cards. For the year I've owned my MSI gtx 560 ti OC it's been rock solid with cool quiet running, never had any driver issues as well (though I don't update unless there is a compelling reason to do so). Unfortunately if one is stuck with an RMA situation, beware that the replacement is usually a refurbed failed card which may be just around the corner from failing yet again.I feel really lucky I got a good MSI card; usually I stick with evga but at the time I needed (er...wanted) a 560 ti, the evga lineup was all 100% reference. I've had a gcard RMA experience with evga that was quick and painless; from what I've read MSI customer service stinks.