Nvidia driver continuous crashes?

I have a Nvidia GTX 560 1GB gfx card, 700 watt power supply, AMD 3.6 GHz processor 8 GB ram. I can't remember my motherboard at the moment, but if you need it I will look it up. The problem I have is that playing any game, graphically intensive such as BF4, or a game such as Minecraft without mods. The popup I get is something to the effect of the driver has timed out.

Download the latest drive, if you're on the latest driver then download the latest beta driver. A quick google search will lead you there.

I had an Nvidia GTX 560 a little while back and mine would always encounter weird errors like this.

At first I thought the noveau drivers were conflicting with Nvidia's drivers on my Gentoo install, but after 10+ hours connected to Nvidia's "tech support hell", I concluded that all the 560's in the world are duds.