Sajin
Just a FYI to everyone monitoring this thread... the OP's issue was resolved by rma'ing the card.

Thanks Sajin. Guess I should do the same. Glad to know its not a defect in all the FTW cards.

Update: Nope, Still Crashes RTM time.

Sajin
Just a FYI to everyone monitoring this thread... the OP's issue was resolved by rma'ing the card.

What do you mean by the OP's issue?  So there is no solution but to RMA?

landerx74

Sajin
Just a FYI to everyone monitoring this thread... the OP's issue was resolved by rma'ing the card.

What do you mean by the OP's issue?  So there is no solution but to RMA?

OP = Original poster of this thread.

Sajin

landerx74

Sajin
Just a FYI to everyone monitoring this thread... the OP's issue was resolved by rma'ing the card.

What do you mean by the OP's issue?  So there is no solution but to RMA?

OP = Original poster of this thread.

Thanks. Well I am going to keep a close eye on this.  I now have a feeling this has to do with Vsync and DSR factors, etc..etc.. Not sure anymore. UGH!

My money right now is on design defect in the hardware. The pattern showing up reminds me of the RRoD problems. It will work completely fine under heavy loads for a period of time, but once it starts happening, anything will trigger it constantly. If it were software, I think everyone would be getting it.
 
I can also rule out anything related to pixel clock or monitor settings, as I just booted up with no monitor plugged in and it died after a few minutes while idle.
 
Is there some way to get detailed event/driver logging that might provide some clues? I have MSI Afterburner configured to log basic sensor info, nothing showing up there though.
 
Edit: Seeing posts on other forums for previous generations of cards seems to be blaming this on heat/power. I don't have a hot card as I said, and I'm pretty sure power is fine. But I did realize that around when this started happening, I also underclocked my CPU by choosing the cool/quiet/powersaving OC setting in the ASUS BIOS. I've set that back to default and the system seems to be surviving longer than usual. This was never a problem on previous generations of nvidia cards. Will update if it dies with this setting...
 
Edit 2: Nope, definitely not fixed.

My issue has not been happening any more as of now not sure why. Will keep on eye out though, RMA is a pain since it takes almost 4 weeks to do for me and cost me a nice bit to ship from CND. Anyways i dont think its tesselation since it is happening to people on desktop and in wow and wow has no tesselation. If it happens on idel I have to think its a straight up hardware defect or possible firmware/driver bug. 

gelectrode
My issue has not been happening any more as of now not sure why. Will keep on eye out though, RMA is a pain since it takes almost 4 weeks to do for me and cost me a nice bit to ship from CND. Anyways i dont think its tesselation since it is happening to people on desktop and in wow and wow has no tesselation. If it happens on idel I have to think its a straight up hardware defect or possible firmware/driver bug. 

Same here. In hours of playing Doom and Far Cry 4 no black screen and fan spin up in the last day. I leave Adaptive Vsync on - not sure if that has anything to do with it. Now I am thinking it's a driver glitch or again maybe just a firmware update is needed.  

I had similar issues and then some with my FTW out of the box and spent an entire weekend troubleshooting to no avail.  RMA'd the card back to Newegg and they refunded me rather than replace so I ordered a different brand and amazingly every single issue I had from loading drivers, black screens, freezing benchmarks disappeared just like that.  I really wanted to stay with EVGA but the issues and time spent with that card really wore me down...EVGA warranty and support is great but I just wasn't willing to take another chance on the same Pascal card.  Based solely on my experience I wouldn't spend a whole lot of time troubleshooting what appears to be hardware issues in a lot of these instances.

It's very inconsistent. I'll get a few hours of gaming in and no issues but then sometimes it won't stay up for more than a few minutes. Just turned on my PC today and not 10 seconds at the Windows lock screen from a cold boot and boom.