A few odd problems after upgrading.

[Siya]

So I just updated my CPU/MB/RAM/PSU/SSD. I got everything installed and it was working great. Not that I needed to I ran the FFXIV benchmark, great score etc etc. Decided to play with the AI Suite II and it did it's thing and showed a 000% increase but set my CPU to 4.2ghz. Went to run the benchmark again and this time it will randomly peg my GPU at 200% and cut my FPS to 30 for a second or 2 then go back to normal. I figured it was the weird OC program so I reset the bios back to default and uninstalled the program but it's still showing the problem within the benchmark.

Now I had a similar problem to this before I upgraded (it would go away after about 10 mins) but it would show ingame as well. So wondering if I still had the same problem I went ahead and logged into FFXIV. But I got no slow downs. So as far as I can tell it's only happening in the benchmark, which isn't a big deal but it may be a foreshadowing or a bigger problem.

Other problem I just ran into as well is when I start firefox it will be just a white box for 5ish seconds then finally load firefox. I disabled all addons and even reinstalled firefox but it keeps happening. Now when I launch firefox in safemode it instantly opens. Any ideas?

[Sonomaa]

sounds like video card and drivers are not playing nice together
I had some strange issues with my 560ti and my 660ti until I undid their default overclock then everything worked fine with them

[Siya]

Well I think I may have figured it out. Not sure why I thought of it but I changed the power setting to performance on both the system and my gpu, and so far it seems the slow downs have stopped during benchmarks. I can live with the firefox thing since I usually launch firefox once per day lol, but hope I can get that fixed as well.

[Siya]

nvm from a cold boot it still does it, also seems it shows up ingame now. Same as before I upgraded


Edit, it's not my GPU usage % spiking it's my GPU power

[Siya]

After searching nonstop, it seems like it's a problem with my model. http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2075147 here is to hoping the RMA process is painless.

[Niya]

About the Firefox problem, you could try with a new profile. Maybe something got screwed up there.
Just run firefox.exe -p from the start menue search field and it should come up with the profile selector, create a new one and set it as default (or "ask every time").

[Siya]

Firefox seemed to fix itself somehow, but if it pops up again I'll try that. So far dealing with EVGAs RMA is just running in circles going over stuff I already did when I was just emailing their support >.x

[Siya]

Well RMA approved. In the acceptance email I got all the way down at the bottom it states

"Replacement

Once EVGA receives your product, please allow 1-3 business days to issue a replacement to you. Once a replacement ships, you will receive an emailed tracking number on the ship date after 6PM PST."

Does that mean they have already deemed it a replacement or will they try to fix it?

[Senji]

They will give you a replacement right away and deal with the card you sent in on their own time.

[Siya]

Hmm.... either the problem is something else which I don't see how it could be seeing as my system is basically a new build or this card I got as a RMA has the same problem. Well talking to some people on the EVGA forum it's actually a pretty big problem with the model, so best case scenario is getting a different model as a RMA.