Hello OCF!
posted this on the nvidia forums at first when i suspected the gfx to be the problem:
Complete new PC with these specs:
ASUS P6X58D Premium, Socket-1366
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black 64MB SATA III (x2)
Intel Core i7 950, 3.06GHz
Corsair 12GB (3x4096MB) 1600MHz VENGEANCE (9-9-9-24)
KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 1536MB
Corsair HX 750W 80+
Lian Li Lancool PC-K56,
Samsung SH-S223C 22X DL
Everything is set to auto in BIOS since im pretty much a novice of bios management, suspect the ram settings might be wrong.
No hardware errors or anything that would seem to be off and no signs of damage on anything.
Installed win 7, all the drivers and everything seemed fine, but when i tried playing games (League of Legends and Darkfall so far.) ive been having sub-par performance (LoL dipping between 20-120 fps, Darkfall being pretty random but about the same as my 4yo pc.) and several problems including screen going black and resetting drivers, massive amounts of artefacts and 4 full hangups.
Thought it was software related so reinstalled everything, tried beta drivers etc no change. Put in my old ATI 4xxx card but had the same amount of artefacts, which rules out the gfx card for that.
Put the 580 back in and installed Win Xp x64 and are currently running it, no artefacts but the performance is still ****-poor and ive had one bluescreen about nva4_disp.dll or something (so far only when ive had the case side on which would mean overheating i guess, currently testing a few days without side.) and two times with textures tearing and using textures from somewhere else (portrait textures for minimap, character texture for the terrain etc.)
Ran a couple of tests, furmark for 25 min, case open, 83*C no problems at all. Ran the CPU stability test to rule out that, no problem whatsoever. Ran 3dMark 06 and got 21022 points, which is what, 5000 below the WORST online records with my setup. Ran it this morning again after reinstalling DirectX and get 20740...
i checked the KFA2 website: http://www.kfa2.com/gtx580.html
"Minimum 600W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 42A" (Asked a friend to look up mine and apparently it have 60A+ something)
and "Overclocked products as standard offering"
Sent them a message to see if they know anything about it.
The thing is though that with Win Xp i dont have the artefacts anymore, just generally "crap" performance (and so far the crashes/bluescreen only occur when i have the case side on, figure its overheating.) as a persistant effect.
Sadly i dont have any other PSUs to test with around, except for another 750w Corsair, but many years older version and probably not the same specs.
ill look into new bios and vbios but i do start to suspect the motherboard (Dont want to randomly send RMAs to the shop i bought from however cause they charge 25euro for each part that they cant find anything wrong with. Greedy bums.)
Aright so i updated my bios, turns out there was one update you had to do manually for some reason, now im getting a buckload of wierd windows errors and applications not running as they should, did a 3dmark 06 test again and am up at 21646. Better but just seems completely random to be honest.
Probably do another try on Win 7 tonight with the proper installation cycle. Cant find anything about a new vbios though.---
Win 7 installed, back to artefacts, whoopde****dedo.
TL; DR Version:
I suspect something is wrong with the motherboard or the RAM settings, anyone have some insight or settings i should/could test before i send RMAs? (check system up top.)
Thanks in advance.
posted this on the nvidia forums at first when i suspected the gfx to be the problem:
Complete new PC with these specs:
ASUS P6X58D Premium, Socket-1366
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black 64MB SATA III (x2)
Intel Core i7 950, 3.06GHz
Corsair 12GB (3x4096MB) 1600MHz VENGEANCE (9-9-9-24)
KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 1536MB
Corsair HX 750W 80+
Lian Li Lancool PC-K56,
Samsung SH-S223C 22X DL
Everything is set to auto in BIOS since im pretty much a novice of bios management, suspect the ram settings might be wrong.
No hardware errors or anything that would seem to be off and no signs of damage on anything.
Installed win 7, all the drivers and everything seemed fine, but when i tried playing games (League of Legends and Darkfall so far.) ive been having sub-par performance (LoL dipping between 20-120 fps, Darkfall being pretty random but about the same as my 4yo pc.) and several problems including screen going black and resetting drivers, massive amounts of artefacts and 4 full hangups.
Thought it was software related so reinstalled everything, tried beta drivers etc no change. Put in my old ATI 4xxx card but had the same amount of artefacts, which rules out the gfx card for that.
Put the 580 back in and installed Win Xp x64 and are currently running it, no artefacts but the performance is still ****-poor and ive had one bluescreen about nva4_disp.dll or something (so far only when ive had the case side on which would mean overheating i guess, currently testing a few days without side.) and two times with textures tearing and using textures from somewhere else (portrait textures for minimap, character texture for the terrain etc.)
Ran a couple of tests, furmark for 25 min, case open, 83*C no problems at all. Ran the CPU stability test to rule out that, no problem whatsoever. Ran 3dMark 06 and got 21022 points, which is what, 5000 below the WORST online records with my setup. Ran it this morning again after reinstalling DirectX and get 20740...
i checked the KFA2 website: http://www.kfa2.com/gtx580.html
"Minimum 600W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 42A" (Asked a friend to look up mine and apparently it have 60A+ something)
and "Overclocked products as standard offering"
Sent them a message to see if they know anything about it.
The thing is though that with Win Xp i dont have the artefacts anymore, just generally "crap" performance (and so far the crashes/bluescreen only occur when i have the case side on, figure its overheating.) as a persistant effect.
Sadly i dont have any other PSUs to test with around, except for another 750w Corsair, but many years older version and probably not the same specs.
ill look into new bios and vbios but i do start to suspect the motherboard (Dont want to randomly send RMAs to the shop i bought from however cause they charge 25euro for each part that they cant find anything wrong with. Greedy bums.)
Aright so i updated my bios, turns out there was one update you had to do manually for some reason, now im getting a buckload of wierd windows errors and applications not running as they should, did a 3dmark 06 test again and am up at 21646. Better but just seems completely random to be honest.
Probably do another try on Win 7 tonight with the proper installation cycle. Cant find anything about a new vbios though.---
Win 7 installed, back to artefacts, whoopde****dedo.
TL; DR Version:
I suspect something is wrong with the motherboard or the RAM settings, anyone have some insight or settings i should/could test before i send RMAs? (check system up top.)
Thanks in advance.