Help: 7900GTX Artifacting..(BFG)

[seer33]

Long story short, I've had this card for about 5 monthes now, and its getting to the point where it is unbearable. I constantly get the long tube like texture things, and screen flickers when playing games. Also sometime will get random colored pixels on screen even in 2d mode. The problem is I replaced the cooler with a arctic cooling accelero, and can't find the original heatsink :confused:


I don't really know what to do, anyone have any suggestions?

[darkcow]

what are your temps? i think your computer has a ton of dust in it probably.


if not, you better find that heatsink for an rma.

[seer33]

Never seen vid card temp get above 55-56 C But I think it might be the ram overheating, there seems to be a deadpocket air space between my vid card and sound card, and its pretty hot right in there. I moved my sound card all the way to the bottom slot, maybe that will help. Also plan on using an air compressor at about 40psi to blow out my case here soon, those little dust canisters don't really do the trick.

[seer33]

Do you think one of those pci fan things might help?