At one point, before FurMark benchmarking, I was getting some weirdo happenings with my video. Hot-Pink or Neon-Green artifacting. Objects in games would appear malformed. Eg. Skyrim had some mountains that formed a single thin spike way up into the sky. Screenshot:
http://screencast.com/t/PhD4sttybXIt's since stopped doing this, and all I can think of is maybe it was because I was leaving the PC on daily while the GPU chewed on my 3D HTPC media center GUI.
Anyhoo, I originally thought I might have a DOA card and already received a RMA # from EVGA. However, I'd like to know if the benchmarks I'm getting are as per average. If not, I'd definitely consider exchanging the card for a new one even if things "seem" back to normal.
Score: 1878 points (31 FPS)
Standard Benchmark is 1280x720, no MSAA, 60000ms
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/furmark_score_190.php?id=37132Bench duration: 60 seconds
Resolution: 1280 x 720
MSAA samples: 0
Window mode: fullscreen
Primary renderer: GeForce GTX 580
Device ID: 0x10de - 0x1080
GPU clock: 772 MHz
Memory clock: 2004 MHz
Shader clock: 1544 MHz
Graphics drivers: 8.17.12.8562 (10-15-2011) - nvoglv64
GPU temperatures (start/end):47°C / 76°C
Number of GPUs: 1
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU speed: 3310 MHz
Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1]