- Joined
- Nov 11, 2003
- Location
- Bloomington, IN
Well, after installing my new CPU (claw) and doing some OCing, I decided to run Aquamark03. I had the 4.8Cat's insttalled, so I went ahead and installed the latest beta's from ATi.
So, after I reboot from installing the beta's, I get a screen that looks... well you know that screen when a video card is fried. After a few seconds it goes back to looking normal. So I run A3 and I get like a score of 23K... well Ok, that's not right, so I go back to the control pannel and make sure all is set to "performance." It is, so I re-run the test, but it is just as slow.
So I go and install the official 4.9 Cat's and it does the same deal upon startup. I run A3, and it all artifacts like crazy... this is at stock for the video card! ATi Silencer4, idle of ~32 and load ~50. So I start freaking out... then I install the latest Omega's and I reboot, but the screen does NOT look messed up. I run A3 and I get ~64K.
So, WTF did I just go through? Is this a sign that my card is about to die?
So, after I reboot from installing the beta's, I get a screen that looks... well you know that screen when a video card is fried. After a few seconds it goes back to looking normal. So I run A3 and I get like a score of 23K... well Ok, that's not right, so I go back to the control pannel and make sure all is set to "performance." It is, so I re-run the test, but it is just as slow.
So I go and install the official 4.9 Cat's and it does the same deal upon startup. I run A3, and it all artifacts like crazy... this is at stock for the video card! ATi Silencer4, idle of ~32 and load ~50. So I start freaking out... then I install the latest Omega's and I reboot, but the screen does NOT look messed up. I run A3 and I get ~64K.
So, WTF did I just go through? Is this a sign that my card is about to die?