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GTX 480 - An interesting Occurence

Predicament

Predicament

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Hey OCUK,

I was using my home gaming rig, equipped with a GTX 480, and noticed that after I quit Crysis 2, the screen would flicker slightly for the next few minutes.

It goes away once I reset my clock on MSI afterburner or wait a minute.

I found this odd because I get a solid 50 FPS in Crysis using the advanced graphics mod/capability and the GFX card temps never go above 80 C.


Any idea's?
 
oh and when I downclocked the card, the problem disappeared :D

Funny thing actually:

I was playing Crysis 2 and had my fans set to '32'

Card reached 104 C
 
Your work pc has that in it? What work do you do? I presume it has some pretty hefty mathematical modelling.

Figured as much, be more careful with your overclocks, were probably just pushing it too far. You really want to keep card temperatures to ~90 at full load if possible though the 480GTX is a hot card. Maybe look into an aftermarket cooler.
 
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8igdave said:
Your work pc has that in it? What work do you do? I presume it has some pretty hefty mathematical modelling.

Figured as much, be more careful with your overclocks, were probably just pushing it too far. You really want to keep card temperatures to ~90 at full load if possible though the 480GTX is a hot card. Maybe look into an aftermarket cooler.
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Lay back on the OC and get a better cooler.

I think he may be lying about his workstation rig. Was it you or somebody else who said the spec in their sig was just the most expensive things they could find?
 
Cleeecooo said:
Lay back on the OC and get a better cooler.

I think he may be lying about his workstation rig. Was it you or somebody else who said the spec in their sig was just the most expensive things they could find?
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You are mistaking me for another user clearly ^

8igdave said:
Your work pc has that in it? What work do you do? I presume it has some pretty hefty mathematical modelling.
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I am actually a freelance architect.

8igdave said:
Figured as much, be more careful with your overclocks, were probably just pushing it too far. You really want to keep card temperatures to ~90 at full load if possible though the 480GTX is a hot card. Maybe look into an aftermarket cooler.
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The temps were just from the fan being set to '32', not my clock.

8igdave said:
I did figure it might just be a lie, but I wanted to ask anyway haha :P.
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I'll post up some pics when I go into work after the long weekend to appease you :D
 
intriguing. Do you need that much power for architecture software? I take it the gpu's must be used for some form of algorithm crunching? Either that or you went through a mid-life crysis.
 
8igdave said:
intriguing. Do you need that much power for architecture software?
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My custom monitor configuration was experiencing lag issues with my old card setup.

7680 x 1200


8igdave said:
Either that or you went through a mid-life crysis.
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Hehe, maybe a bit of both. I recently just settled a contract and was left with a sum of $107,400 before tax
 
Only 7680x1200 huh? How many monitors across is that 4?

I would have thought that if you aren't gaming at work then any semi decent 2 gpu's would suffice as they aren't having to output anything but standard 2d stuff. Could have been a driver issue. Though I'm sure you didn't bother checking it out too much and just jumped on the quadfire eh? haha. I don't blame you ;).

I'd put those gpu's in my home pc and hit up a couple of 6850's instead for work or even get a couple of 5850's. Dirt cheap atm. Should be fine for 2d work.

That's quite a nice sum of cash. I did some work experience for a civil engineering firm and ended up meeting quite a lot of architects as well. Seems that you guys hate the engineers :P. Not their fault you want to break the laws of physics :P.

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Wait a minute...how did you justify the dual xeon's then? Do they stop micro-stutter on 4 screens when on google? haha.
 
8igdave said:
Only 7680x1200 huh? How many monitors across is that 4?

I would have thought that if you aren't gaming at work then any semi decent 2 gpu's would suffice as they aren't having to output anything but standard 2d stuff. Could have been a driver issue. Though I'm sure you didn't bother checking it out too much and just jumped on the quadfire eh? haha. I don't blame you ;).

I'd put those gpu's in my home pc and hit up a couple of 6850's instead for work or even get a couple of 5850's. Dirt cheap atm. Should be fine for 2d work.

That's quite a nice sum of cash. I did some work experience for a civil engineering firm and ended up meeting quite a lot of architects as well. Seems that you guys hate the engineers :P. Not their fault you want to break the laws of physics :P.

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Wait a minute...how did you justify the dual xeon's then? Do they stop micro-stutter on 4 screens when on google? haha.
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rendering the blue screen of depth at 9000 FPS is awesome? :P
 
8igdave said:
Haha I see, i'll be looking out for you posting the "OMG MY PC ISN'T WORKING" and everyone going ouch that's gota be expensive and you're like...it's only a p4.
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LOL I was actually going to complain about sub-30 FPS in Minesweeper with screenshots that have got the FRAPS overlay on em :P
 
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