"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

[Alhanelem]

and the fan doesn't even need to go above 50% while XIV is running (which keeps you a lot of margin before having your card to overheat, as the fan speed will be automatically increased as the temperature rise.)

Unless the noise REALLY bothers you, you should always have the fan maxed anyway. I've never had a video card whose fan died before the card did.

[Antipika]

Unless the noise REALLY bothers you, you should always have the fan maxed anyway. I've never had a video card whose fan died before the card did.

Well any high-end Nvidia reference card since Fermi has a loud as sh** fan. I play with headphones, usually my volume is really high, yet the fan at 100% on these card is unbearable. ~30% is barely audible (usually CPU/case fan are more loud). 40~50% you can start to hear it, but it's very small (impossible to notice with headphones). Around 60% it starts to get noisy. Anything above 80% is a jet during take off...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCpNvSb5dU

(I know videos aren't the best to realize how noisy it is, but can give a rough idea, and it only goes to 85% here which is the max allowed by the eVGA tool.)