I got an ATI Silencer 1 and some iceberq copper BGA ramsinks and installed it all yesterday onto a radeon 9800 pro 128mb. everything worked fine as far as running the computer and such. watched a movie too. then that night i finally decided to load up battlefield vietnam to see if i could induce the artifacts i always got. i made a game, jumped into a helicopter and started flying, and after about 30 seconds the game locked up with sound skipping. then i tried UT2k4. same thing. CS: Source also produced the same results, though it ran longer. then tried starwars galaxies and the VPU reset and i ended up still having to hit the reset button. no slowdown or artifacts or anything in any of the games prior to it crashing. this morning i pulled the card and stuck my old 9000pro in and had no problems in bfv. i tried it a few times and it wouldn't crash. stuck 9800 back in and it crashed. so i'm pretty sure it's the card, and it's seeming like most games will crash.
doesn't seem like it would be, but if it's the cooler what is the best way to install it? how much thermal grease (i'm using the stuff they sent) and how tight should i screw down the bracket? any problems you had regarding this and your solutions would be a big help. thanks!
edit: no overclocking or anything
doesn't seem like it would be, but if it's the cooler what is the best way to install it? how much thermal grease (i'm using the stuff they sent) and how tight should i screw down the bracket? any problems you had regarding this and your solutions would be a big help. thanks!
edit: no overclocking or anything