how is it not? my two xfx r290x cards ran flawlessly before i replaced them with these ....

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how is it not? my two xfx r290x cards ran flawlessly before i replaced them with these ....

I suppose I worded it wrong, it's not your video card as in the one you have in your PC. However, I would agree with any statement saying the drivers, software and other things are not working for you. I would be amazed if you returned it and your new one worked. It's unfortunate but nvidea drivers have a lot bugs that never seem to be fixed.

from what ive seen folks who decide to rma the card have had mixed results but most (read like 80 %) have reported that the issue has been resolved with an rma ... hopefully mine will be as well ... then like i said ... if evga gets on the ball with their Titan X card i plan on trading up for two Titan X's in SLI and hopefully these cards do not present the same issues 

the truly funny part is that i can run firestrike no problem but when i boot up gw2 maybe 2 minutes ... maybe 30 ... but the thing will crash 
 

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the truly funny part is that i can run firestrike no problem but when i boot up gw2 maybe 2 minutes ... maybe 30 ... but the thing will crash 

I had issues with my GTX 460 SLI in CoH2 and even after I bought a GTX 970, I still had the issue at least one.  The issue was that the drivers would crash and send me into a bluescreen which would be black because of the drivers crashing and it took me about a year to figure out it was a bluescreen.  One day, it happend and I left my PC under the black screen for about 30minutes to go eat, came back and windows notified me about sending the report to Microsoft which I assure you I never would.  But I know its not my PC because I have looked at the dump files using Microsofts SDK program and they all point to NVIDEA drivers crashing and going haywire.  So I know there drivers are not solid so to speak.  Luckily I don't really play the game anyways so it's not dear to my heart that I fix it or ask for it to be fixed.  To say NVIDEA drivers don't have issues would be a mistake though and I am willing to defend that they do have several flaws w/ stability.  
 
Overall, what im saying is I would not be surprised if it is not a driver related issue if you can stress test and play other games fine but this praticular game you play crashes soon after launch(10-20min). 

Well I'm glad to see i'm not the only person having this issue with 970's my GTX 970 SC ACX2.0 has been crashing to blackscreen on me alot lately as well.
When mine crashes my monitor turns off to sleep mode and sound loops then the sounds stop. If I restart the PC it will go through the restart cycle but the monitor will not turn back on and I have to hard stop the computer by holding the power button in order for it to recover. And I've done everything everyone else has done but  it continues to happen atleast once a day for me and whocrashed won't even bring up any info for me about what happened it's annoying.

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I purchased my gtx 980s mid February and BOTH cards exhibiting this behavior . Bought mine from newegg . Nothing works to fix the issue . Swapping cards pci ...switching to pcie 2.0 ....down clocking ...nothing ...every time I play Guild wars 2 It will be fine for a length of time then my tv will just stop receiving signal ...pc will still be running but no signal to pc . I'm still in game as confirmed by my friend I play with and can even type by hitting enter ..typing ....and hitting enter he sees me type ....it's been a running gag for my guild ...I spend 1100.00 on two gtx 980s and can't even play a 2 year old game . Thinking of trading up to two titan x in sli and see if that resolves my issue if evga could hurry up and release the darn things

I had the same issue as the OP.  I had the card (980 FTW) not even 1 day and it crashed and crashed and crashed.  I too bought it from Newegg and did not return it to them for fear I would get another of the same batch; it had the old BIOS based on a nVidia message I saw on their forum from back in November.  I think Newegg probably still have some old stock of these cards.
 
Just an FYI.  I did not do any diagnostics.  I refused to waste my time.  The only diagnostics I did was remove the 980, reinstall the 2x 680s and call EVGA for a replacement.  My 2x 680s ran smoothly, so I knew it was the card.  I contacted EVGA on Friday, March 13, 2015 and I had my new card on Friday, March 20, 2015.  They took care of me and I now have a card that has been flawless so far - max boost 1502.  I am glad I stuck with EVGA cards this second go round as I've always heard that their customer service was top notch.  Thumbs up to them.
 
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I've been having a similar problem.
 
Crashes to black screen while Far Cry 3 or Tomb Raider (sometimes audio continues/stutters, sometimes vanishes along with the display) which can only be "solved" with a cold reset.
 
My Nvidia drivers are up to date (347.88 installed - already completely uninstalled and reinstalled to test) and the games are using optimized settings as suggested by GeForce Experience.
 
I have not overclocked the card any further than the factory overclock; instead I've tried underclocking it (with Precision X) as suggested in this thread to see whether that fixed the problem (it didn't).
 
The card doesn't seem to be overheating. I used Precision X to set up a custom fan profile and aggresively cool the card as soon as it hits 60 degrees. Testing with FurMark and OC Scanner confirms that the fan profile is active (fan noise jumps suddenly when the card goes above 60 degrees); however, I never hear the fans get that loud in either game before the crashes occur.
 
I'm beginning to suspect that this card is a dud. It isn't performing as it should, despite not being pushed particularly hard.
 
I've just opened a support ticket. We'll see how EVGA responds.

I'm actually starting up the step up process right now due to the RMA card being sent to me doing the same thing only not at the PC crashing level, sadly I cannot get the GTX 980 SC card and have to get the normal version in ACX while the card i'm using is a GTX 970 SC edition, I really wish they would let us upgrade to the card we want since we're paying the difference in the first place.

I'm having problems as well with the 970 ftw acx 2.0.  I played skyrim for a while without the mods, had good fps constantly, and no problems.  Now I have some mods that are putting my card to the test, and I'm at around 50-60 fps, but now I randomly lose the HDMI signal to my TV.  This has never happened to me before in any other game ever since I got this 2-3 weeks ago, and now it's starting to act up.  Is there anyone that has solved the problem without returning the card?  It's my only card and I need to be at WoW raids every week, so RMA would be my absolute last option :'(.