I think it's time you get a really new unopened box card and appreciate EVGA's customer support.
 
you should contact EVGATech_ChrisB and let him help you, assuming you are in USA. 

That's always problem with RMA, you send because one problem they send you with other. 
I didn't experienced that but it's possible.
For every RMA no matter what you need to replace I would demand unboxing and testing in EVGA service before send you. I hear that's possible.
Yes unboxing sealed hardware is excellent thing, but better is to hardware is 100% OK.

The problem with RMA in Europe is that they expect you to send the product to Germany with International shipping costs, at your expense. I have declined this and will be returning my brand new DOA card to the Vendor in line with UK/European Consumer Law.
 

Dear eubbb,
 
I have read through your email and your forum post. I have also looked through the history on your account. I can confirm that the reason for your first RMA was said to be the same or similar to the issue with the current new card. Please understand that your first RMA was tested and the card did not show artifacts in our systems. Can you please confirm the power supply in use in this system? Can you please confirm if you can also try the card in a different slot? Have you tried a complete fresh install of the drivers?
 
I am showing that the EU team is trying to help and that they have covered the shipping for the last RMA request as well as helping with this current one to assist, but please understand that if the issue is something else other than the graphics card another card will give the same error/problems.
 
I will be awaiting your response through email to try and help further. chrisb@evga.com

EVGATech_ChrisB
Dear eubbb,
 
I have read through your email and your forum post. I have also looked through the history on your account. I can confirm that the reason for your first RMA was said to be the same or similar to the issue with the current new card. Please understand that your first RMA was tested and the card did not show artifacts in our systems. Can you please confirm the power supply in use in this system? Can you please confirm if you can also try the card in a different slot? Have you tried a complete fresh install of the drivers?
 
I am showing that the EU team is trying to help and that they have covered the shipping for the last RMA request as well as helping with this current one to assist, but please understand that if the issue is something else other than the graphics card another card will give the same error/problems.
 
I will be awaiting your response through email to try and help further. chrisb@evga.com

Thank you for your answer.

Regarding the 1st card, I really doubt it was just a driver issue.
Of course I cleaned thoroughly drivers with appropriate tools (DDU display driver uninstaller, CCleaner to fix tmp files + registry, multiple reboots, fresh installation from manufacturer's website updated driver), and reinstalled but the issue remained : it wasn't always artifacts from start up but it was more and more frequent, with BSOD, and multiple crash of the card driver (that was the error message, in term of facts, it was the card turning unresponsive from Peripheric manager).

Regarding EVGA certification tests for the unit, I don't know what is given to the card, how long etc, but I'm really surprised that you didn't notice anything abnormal.

Before proceeding with RMA, EU support made me test few things in order to check the good behaviour of the PSU : +12v reading in BIOS, memtest for the RAM etc...
My PSU is a Corsair HX850 which is a quality PSU. I know it could have failed, but I really don't notice any issue for the time being.
I now have a Crossfire of 5750 before I receive a working card, and the computer is working like a charm : no error, no issue at all.
Also, when I tried my friend's 570, it was working fine on my computer too.
I've also tried connecting the GPU to another slot of the motherboard, but nothing changed.


Here is my complete rig:

Motherboard : Asus Maximus VII Ranger
CPU : Intel i5 4690k
RAM : G.Skill Ripjaws 4x2Go 1600Mhz
PSU : Corsair HX850
Cooling : Noctua NH-U12P SE2
Storage : Kingston V300 60Go + Kingston V300 240Go + Seagate Barracuda 1To
Case : NZXT H440
Monitor : Asus VS278
OS : Windows 8.1 64bits Pro
GPU : ?  / EVGA 570 Superclocked / Crossfire Sapphire 5750 Vapor-X

Shot in the dark here, but when you clean the drivers with DDU, are you cleaning both Nvidia & ATI drivers?  If not, give that a try if you still have issue's.

eubbb

EVGATech_ChrisB
Dear eubbb,
 
I confirmed that your replacement shipped for you and please do not hesitate to let me know if I can be of further support. chrisb@evga.com

I'll let you all know when I'll have received the unit.

bdary
Shot in the dark here, but when you clean the drivers with DDU, are you cleaning both Nvidia & ATI drivers?  If not, give that a try if you still have issue's.

You can choose what you want to clean/uninstall. It's able to clean ATI / Nvidia / Intel drivers.

Yes, I'm aware of that.  But my question was if you were removing both the Nvidia & ATI drivers when you tried running your Nvidia GPU?  Sometimes having both types of driver sets (Nvidia & ATI) installed at the same time can cause issue's.
 
My suggestion was if you hadn't cleaned both types of drivers, to give that a try if you're still having issue's.

that's good to hear, have a nice time with the new card.