Asus Strix 1070 OC - Memory Issue?

[Swinder]

Back in October of 2016 I picked up a 1070 OC with Samsung memory (dodged the micron bullet). I have had numerous issues which come and go but I am struggling now so a bit of help or advice is much needed.

On stock settings and with the gaming profile enabled via GPU Tweak2 I had issues playing Battlefield 1. I would get frequent driver crashes at varying lengths of played time. The fix was to drop the factory overclock and run the non-overclocked settings.

Since then I have dabbled in overclocking using the stickied thread by Nate152 and the benchmarks and stress testing were okay. I reinstalled BF1 and the issues have returned, once again the only way to player BF1 or F1 2016 is to drop down to the equivalent of a non-overclocked 1070 which isn't really ideal considering it cost more...

Win 7 x64.
Latest nvidia drivers (doesn't matter if I run old or new).
Bios: 86.04.50.00.63
PCIe x16 3.0.
Temps all good, 30c at idle, pushes circa 61c at load. (Custom fan curve to ramp up to 100% by 60c).

[Nate152]

Thanks for the updates.

Can you try your 1070 in your girlfriend's pc and see how BF1 plays, this will tell us a little more.

[Swinder]

Okay, dropped in my girlfriends 1070 (micron memory) and it ran fine. I ran the Firestrike benchmark and it was also apparent that I was down by 400 - 500 points at stock and then up to 600 points when in OC mode.

I pushed my girlfriends 1070 up to and beyond those settings you provided in the OC guide and eventually I did encounter a driver crash but that was well above its stock speeds.

I guess I am looking at a faulty GPU then, might see if my retailer will provide store credit an allow me to pay a bit more and jump up to a 1080.

[Nate152]

All right,

Let us know how it goes.