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- Jun 19, 2002
Before you just say that I'm pushing it too far, let me tell you I do not believe that's the case.
Whenever I overclock my 6800GT to ~400/1100 and up, I get freezes in applications (3Dmark, for example, what I use to test it) for a few seconds, and then it "catches up" and continues like nothing happened. I go back down to stock speeds, and it runs just like normal. What is strange is how even if I overclock it farther, I don't get artifacts or tearing or anything like that, it's just this freezing.
In the last week or so I've been playing around with all kinds of settings and it seemed like I had found what worked to fix it, which was to switch the AGP to 4X instead of 8X, but I continued playing around and I can't get it back to where it was, even by doing what I thought I had done (switch it to 4X). No matter what I do now, if I overclock it has random freezes.
I've tried different drivers, I'm using a new PSU which I've tested with a multimeter as completely stable, I do not think the card is getting too hot, I've tried putting the system at stock speeds, yet nothing will fix it.
Is this card getting slower and slower? I'm sure that a while ago I had it running past 400/1100 rock solid stable without any problems, so it leads to be believe that something in my system configuration that changed is the cause of these freezes, not the lack of the ability of the card to run at the overclocked frequencies.
Have any of you encountered anything like this or have any tips for anything to try? Also, would you consider these freezes to be an indication that the card just can't overclock, or some other issue? Thanks.
Whenever I overclock my 6800GT to ~400/1100 and up, I get freezes in applications (3Dmark, for example, what I use to test it) for a few seconds, and then it "catches up" and continues like nothing happened. I go back down to stock speeds, and it runs just like normal. What is strange is how even if I overclock it farther, I don't get artifacts or tearing or anything like that, it's just this freezing.
In the last week or so I've been playing around with all kinds of settings and it seemed like I had found what worked to fix it, which was to switch the AGP to 4X instead of 8X, but I continued playing around and I can't get it back to where it was, even by doing what I thought I had done (switch it to 4X). No matter what I do now, if I overclock it has random freezes.
I've tried different drivers, I'm using a new PSU which I've tested with a multimeter as completely stable, I do not think the card is getting too hot, I've tried putting the system at stock speeds, yet nothing will fix it.
Is this card getting slower and slower? I'm sure that a while ago I had it running past 400/1100 rock solid stable without any problems, so it leads to be believe that something in my system configuration that changed is the cause of these freezes, not the lack of the ability of the card to run at the overclocked frequencies.
Have any of you encountered anything like this or have any tips for anything to try? Also, would you consider these freezes to be an indication that the card just can't overclock, or some other issue? Thanks.