Use 314.22. End of story. No more BSOD. No more monitor blanking. No need to tweak TDR. Thanks Reddit!
Why does such an ancient driver offer better, and more stable performance?
“…they develop a unified driver stack (the same driver software runs on all their currently supported cards, back to 400 series). Thus as newer cards benefit from different driver behavior this can adversely affect the performance of older cards that prefer different driver behavior.”