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Old 06-19-07, 10:18 AM Thread Starter   #1
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What's the problem here and how do i fix it?





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Old 06-19-07, 10:35 AM   #2
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Looks like standard artifacting. Are you overclocking the card? If so, I would bump it down a bit. Also, if you aren't overclocking, you may be having heat issues. Is the airflow being blocked to/from the card?

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Old 06-19-07, 10:56 AM   #3
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Yeah, looks like u got a case of the artifacts there. Get lots of rest and keep ur fluids up and u should be fine. oh, also look at temps.
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Old 06-19-07, 11:02 AM Thread Starter   #4
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i'm not OCing at all, but my card is running at 52C right now and i'm not even running any programs. this is with the fan at 25%.

i'm going to bump it up to 100% and wait a few minutes to see what it drops to.

update: it only dropped by 1 degree

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Old 06-19-07, 11:30 AM   #5
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Bumping the fan up by 75% should make a MUCH bigger difference than that. If I bump my GTO's fan speed by only 10%, i see a 3 degree drop in idle temp. You might be doing something incorrectly.

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Old 06-19-07, 11:37 AM   #6
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Or he may have cute little dust bunnies living inside the heatsink

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jup, or bad airflow.. But the real difference should be on load temps anyway. Game some and check temps then, or run atitool while monitoring temps.

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Old 06-19-07, 12:45 PM Thread Starter   #8
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i forgot to log the temp monitor, but it topped out at 60C while i was playing and then took about 5 minutes to cool back down to 51.
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Old 06-19-07, 11:12 PM   #9
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Get yourself some compressed air and make sure there is no dust ubder the fan shroud blocking the air flow. Try getting a big window fan and take the side off of the case and blow the fan right onto the card. Play CSS for an hour and see if it still happens.

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Old 06-20-07, 12:06 PM Thread Starter   #10
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ok, things are getting worse. there's no dust in the fan, but temps have shot up to 57C IDLE (fan at 25%) and hit 60 when playing a non-intensive game (Warcraft 3, fan at 40%). this is getting pretty ridiculous.
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Old 06-20-07, 12:53 PM   #11
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Bumping the fan up by 75% should make a MUCH bigger difference than that. If I bump my GTO's fan speed by only 10%, i see a 3 degree drop in idle temp. You might be doing something incorrectly.
That's a 7900gtx heatsink you're talking about, and he probably has one of these on his card-

http://image.pcbee.co.kr/img/2006/BA/t_fan1-f.jpg

So you really can't make that comparison, as logical as it might sound.

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Have you tried reinstalling drivers?

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Old 06-20-07, 01:24 PM Thread Starter   #12
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i just updated the drivers like 2 days ago, so that's not the problem (was having heat issues before that as well, so its not the new drivers either)
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Old 06-20-07, 03:03 PM   #13
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Your card could simply be dying.
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Old 06-20-07, 03:24 PM   #14
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i just updated the drivers like 2 days ago, so that's not the problem (was having heat issues before that as well, so its not the new drivers either)
Did you perform a driver clean before updating the driver?

I also suggest you try downclocking the memory a bit, it could be a dud in the worst case .

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Old 06-20-07, 03:46 PM Thread Starter   #15
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yep, i used driver cleaner pro twice (once in safe mode prior to installing the new drivers). the memory and clock are both at stock.
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Old 06-20-07, 04:21 PM   #16
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try a forceware change as some forceware versions do have incompatabilities with certain games, or games at certain settings especially - like CSS
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Old 06-20-07, 09:23 PM   #17
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Get Riva Tuner and set the fan speed to 100% see if that helps.

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Old 06-20-07, 09:50 PM Thread Starter   #18
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yeah, ive done that. my temps drop to 51-52 or 49 when the AC is on, but im still seeing a good bit of artifacting. and running the fan at the default 40% is almost out of the question.
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Old 06-21-07, 11:31 PM   #19
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Well sounds like you need to RMA it. If your warrenty is up on it then you will have to take the heatsink off yourself clean off the old thermal paste and the old RAM thermal pads and replace them. The RAM has thick thermal pads on them that you will have to buy otherwise the heatsink will not make contact with them again if you don't use the thick pads not a thermal paste like on the CPU. AS5 is fine for the CPU but you have to get thermal pads for the RAM.

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