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More Cuda cores, too. Nvidia used top-binned dies to enable all those cores, and charged accordingly. I'm yet to find a Vista-compatible app that uses all 12 gigs, btw. Trivia: That's how at least half of them go. When a MOSFET dies, it usually forms a dead short, so the GPU gets a blast of straight 12V instead of 1.small_changeV it usually gets. Shocked and appalled, it, in turn, also shorts. Now the PSU is dumping 12V into a dead short, basically. Whatever offers the most resistance (the MOSFET itself usually, though in your case the 6+2 connector, which was probably making iffy contact) starts to burn -- itself & everything around it (see pic attached) BTW, a good percentage of high-end cards from around that time have been mining, so the odds of getting one on its last legs are reasonably high. The first thing i do after scoring a card is try to overclock it -- if a Maxwell card is stable @ +100MHz on the cores & ~+500MHz memory, it's got life left. If not ...i got stuck with many of those.

What happened, what are the symptoms? If it can still load its driver without crashing (you can boot all the way to a desktop, but it crashes under load), you could try downclocking it with either Afterburner (as simple as dragging sliders to the left -- not permanent), or Maxwell BIOS Tweaker (sticks until you reflash the vBIOS). Stability will improve at the expense of performance. @D.Draker: Tried your driver, but probably screwed something up. Edited the .inf file, patched the nvlddmkm.sy_ (verified that the changes took by searching for modded strings), and when the driver installed (didn't sign the driver, got the unsigned warning, boot integrity checking was already disabled), i lost Aero & got the "you must reboot" warning. Yellow exclamation mark (driver missing or corrupt) in device manager on reboot. This was a while back, could've been due to omissions/mistakes I made, maybe some HW conflicts (this was on a X58 board with a Westmere chip), most likely user error.

Never ran into those with Maxwell cards myself (run extended kernel with 960, 980ti & Titan X Maxwell), so can't really comment. If there are some specific (common/easy to get) apps you had problems with, i could try them & get back to you. Sorry for missing 'PASCAL' in your post & *title* BTW, someday i'll learn to read before typing. Aren't they almost the same? Never had a Pascal Titan. One reason to stay away from both: not compatible with XP (if you ever decide to multiboot).

Thank you so much, that was the stumbling block.

? I'll break it down to simplify: 1. Titan X & 980ti are Maxwell cards, with official Vista driver support. 2. 1080ti is Pascal. Pascal has no official Vista drivers, though modded drivers exist. 3. Modded Pascal drivers break Cuda (for me). 4. Modded Pascal drivers work well in games. The rest is opinion (you won't notice any difference between 980ti and Titan X in games; Titan X is pointless in Vista, etc.). Nothing wrong with it, a year/gen. earlier, worse (lower frames) than 980ti, could be had for less. Edit re. " i was referring to the better pascal version, which is basicly a 1% slower 1080ti with 12gb of vram": didn't see that, my bad. Never owned one. Everything said about 1080ti applies, i guess.

@Dietmar re. new ACPI.SYS Hi, sorry for such a basic question, but how do i replace ACPI.SYS in 64-bit XP install? nLite only likes .inf files, and Google is not being a friend.

I'd go with another 980 ti -- prices are finally reasonable, plenty of them to choose from. Titan X cards are hard to recommend -- hot, loud cards that bench fractionally better than 980 ti. If you're mainly gaming, you won't feel the difference. OTOH, got two of them in SLI, basterdized with 980 ti Hybrid coolers -- a goofy setup, won't even try to rationalize. If it's about games/FPS, 1080 ti is probably a better choice, though all the modded drivers i've tried seem to break Cuda, so e.g. recent Adobe apps (that work with extended kernel/ Maxwell cards) are broken.

You found a Chinese Chromium-based browser with potential malware? What's it called? The highlighted (d4mon_ccb.exe)? Just found & downloaded it from here, nothing eye-popping, guessing USB security key related?

I end up using two. One is Humming Owl's Kafan Minibrowser x64 (download MiniBrowser_1.0.0.121_XPx64_Modified.7z), my favorite, posting from it now, but YT stutters. The other's Feodor2's Mypal 68.13.1b -- YT works fine, as does most stuff, i just perfer Kafan Minibrowser.

Hi, they're not, only 2D acceleration is supported (desktop compositing, web browsing, that sort of thing), 3D isn't. All I meant was the screencap you linked is likely genuine (Cinebench score is for CPU rendering, which doesn't rely on that 1060 or require video drivers to be installed). My box with 1070 and XP is useless for gaming, but it also multiboots a bunch of other OS (for no particular reason, it's just a collection of parts that would otherwise go unused), that's the only reason for XP+1070.

Probably not fake, Cinebench is showing CPU (not GPU) rendering. Device Manager simply reports the name in GPU driver's .inf file. I didn't bother editing .inf when installing 1070, just chose the "TITAN" entry & manually installed it. Device Manager now reports the GPU (1070) as "TITAN."