the white dots are from the memory dood.... im telling u..... i ran tests with the core at default and memory at default and then with high oc's on each seperatly, so i know what gives what type of artifacts.
hmmm i was thinking of dremeling a little groove in the heatsink where the shim is and see if it is a problem with the hs making contact with the core of the gpu. THe heatsink isnt getting even WARM too the touch on it..... but then again its pretty beasty. The back of the card isnt getting hot tho either, which i noticed my gf3ti500 did before i took off the horrible cooling it had on it. The core has to produce a lot of heat, because the olld hs would get really hot. I would guess it was around 100* F. I thot that the fact that the heatsink was heating up was the problem with my oc, but now i just think i may have a scrubsta card.
I dont know anything about video bios or flashing it or anything..... any suggestions on that? I can only imagine that the memory timings wouldnt be as tight, allowing a higher memory oc, but i cant see how that helps me. My memory runs great on this card adn i couldnt be happier with it...... so what should i do?