charleyz
I'm really starting to see a pattern here with these GTX 1080 FTW models. Should I just take it back and go get the SC model from Fry's? Becuase sounds to me that we could all be getting replacement video cards that may work now but down the road experience this again. Scary at this price point for some.
 

charleyz
Replaced my ASUS Strix gtx 980's sli with the EVGA gtx 1080 FTW, after about 20 minutes of game play Deus EX: Mankind Divided the monitor disruptively shut off and the fans on the video card cranked 100%. 
 
Before this happening, I first began this upgrade with the uninstall of the old drivers including any overclocking programs and GForce experience, shut downed. Proceeded to install the new video card, rebooted to windows everything all good. Went to installed nvidia drivers for the first time, they failed.  I waited a bit rebooted tried again then finally it installed all the way.  Brought up the game, performed 4 benchmarks to see what my FPS was, all seemed fair at 4k resolution.  Went to play the main story then after 20 min the monitor blacked out. One thing that was funny, I could hit the power button and it would do a normal shutdown so everything else was working just not the video card it seemed.  Checked power, checked socket installation no sign of trouble with anything. When I proceeded to reboot, there was artifacting right across the monitor screen, a white line with green dots above it, when entering windows 10. Now everything else seemed to be working in the background minus the monitor image.  So I shut down pulled the power cord out, waited 30 seconds then rebooted, it booted back up normal. Now, I'm able to do other benchmarks outside of the game i was primarily playing all day, no issue. As soon as I play any game, I'll get a hard image freeze, where everything in the background, control alt delete all works, and gets it out of the in game image freeze. Basically, I was able to log off one time to get the screen to unfreeze.  Now through all of these troubles not once has a driver error come up, BSOD, windows error, nothing. Just random monitor screen shutdowns and image freezing. I've RMA'd so good there but I'm just curious to what maybe going on? 

lradunovic

charleyz
Replaced my ASUS Strix gtx 980's sli with the EVGA gtx 1080 FTW, after about 20 minutes of game play Deus EX: Mankind Divided the monitor disruptively shut off and the fans on the video card cranked 100%. 
 
Before this happening, I first began this upgrade with the uninstall of the old drivers including any overclocking programs and GForce experience, shut downed. Proceeded to install the new video card, rebooted to windows everything all good. Went to installed nvidia drivers for the first time, they failed.  I waited a bit rebooted tried again then finally it installed all the way.  Brought up the game, performed 4 benchmarks to see what my FPS was, all seemed fair at 4k resolution.  Went to play the main story then after 20 min the monitor blacked out. One thing that was funny, I could hit the power button and it would do a normal shutdown so everything else was working just not the video card it seemed.  Checked power, checked socket installation no sign of trouble with anything. When I proceeded to reboot, there was artifacting right across the monitor screen, a white line with green dots above it, when entering windows 10. Now everything else seemed to be working in the background minus the monitor image.  So I shut down pulled the power cord out, waited 30 seconds then rebooted, it booted back up normal. Now, I'm able to do other benchmarks outside of the game i was primarily playing all day, no issue. As soon as I play any game, I'll get a hard image freeze, where everything in the background, control alt delete all works, and gets it out of the in game image freeze. Basically, I was able to log off one time to get the screen to unfreeze.  Now through all of these troubles not once has a driver error come up, BSOD, windows error, nothing. Just random monitor screen shutdowns and image freezing. I've RMA'd so good there but I'm just curious to what maybe going on? 

When you install nvidia drivers again, unplug network cable to prevent stupid Windows 10 mess up your installation as it tries to push outdated version at the same time.