VGA Silencer, ARTIFACTing on ATI Tool

[jcw122]

Hey Guys, I installed my new VGA Silencer today. I installed it properly, I spread the AS5 with a plastic baggy (actually cling wrap), VERY thin layer, I could almost see through it.

Anyway, Even before the Silencer, my card used to be extremely got to the touch, and I get non-visible artifacts in ATi Tray Tools, It picks up anywhere from 100-200 artifacts. Anyone know what I can do to solve this? My 3D Settings are set all to Quality, 16AF, no AA. I am also using Omega drivers based on the 5.6 or 5.7 Catalysts.

Thanks!

EDIT: STOCK CLOCKS

[masterbs1]

I have a vga silencer on my old 9800pro and found out that ati's chips are not exactly flat. You need to put quite a bit more on the gpu core than you would on a regular cpu. Take the silencer back off and put a good amount on it, but be careful not to goup it everywhere. Make sure you tighten the screws down evenly also.

[El<(')>Maxi]

What are your card temps doing?

[jcw122]

What are your card temps doing?

Unfortunatly the 9800Pros do not have temperature sensors on them, only the 9800XT's...and mine isn't the kind that can flash to an XT.

[PhoenixOfChaos]

I've found ATi Tray tools to be misleading, for me it was my clocks. I turned on my AC to 59Fº(It would be cool to do this all the time lol, but it costs a fortune) to test this, at 53Cº load temps I get artifacts, but at the same temp at 5mhz slower it's artifact free.

So to test this I popped on ATi Tool, 0 artifacts half an hour :shrug:

*edit* feel the HS, if its too hot for the touch then I'd back off the oc, otherwise I'm leaning to a bad mount.

[jcw122]

I've fown ATi Tray tools to be misleading, for me it was my clocks. I turned on my AC to 59Fº(It would be cool to do this all the time lol, but it costs a fortune) to test this, at 53Cº load temps I get artifacts, but at the same temp at 5mhz slower it's artifact free.

So to test this I popped on ATi Tool, 0 artifacts half an hour :shrug:

*edit* feel the HS, if its too hot for the touch then I'd back off the oc, otherwise I'm leaning to a bad mount.

Funny thing is, these are stock clocks.

[jcw122]

SOLVED:

-Updated ATI Tray Tools