4850 kaput ?? pics inside

mintsauce5 · 20 Nov 2008 at 12:49

hi , i purchased an asus 512mb radeon hd4850 in august this year , a couple of weeks ago i started getting artifacts in games , cod4 , cod2 , also in the cod 5 beta , now i cant even run the games as soon as they've loaded i get blocks and lines all over the screen , now its happening in windows , i've tried uninstalling the drivers ,cleaned with driver cleaner in safe mode and its still the same , do you knowleagable folks think the cards gone ?

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-Aura- · 20 Nov 2008 at 12:51

It`s knackered!

HeX · 20 Nov 2008 at 12:51

Yup, RMA time.

reflux · 20 Nov 2008 at 12:55

Deader than the dodo.

EvilOne · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:00

Its fine, its ment to look like that.

Sasso · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:00

yep dead

skirkham · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:22

im afraid it has a terminal illness, you might want to say your goodbyes now

gt_junkie · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:33

I agree - looks like it's dying.

gt

Durzel · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:41

She's dead Jim!

Doomas · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:52

Have that before - after overclocking - cleaned all drivers and swiched of... for 3 hrs - still working after that - was overheated.

mintsauce5 · 20 Nov 2008 at 14:18

i've just spoke to the shop where i got the card from they are aiming towards my psu not being powerful enough , i have a tagan modular 480w , would this be good enough to run my system , i had an nvidia 8800gts 640mb before this card and had no problems ?

Ezyryder · 20 Nov 2008 at 14:23

********, I say. That should be plenty for that card.

I have an overclocked Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz, with 4 Gigs of Ram + 2 HD + an overclocked G92 8800GTS + all the usual gubbins with that PSU and it has never missed a beat.

smids · 20 Nov 2008 at 14:26

Tell them the memory is faulty (as those pics are indicative of failing memory).

Then politely point them to ATi/AMD where the specifications are listed:

ATi.com said:
ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 System Requirements

* PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
* 450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
* Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
* Minimum 1GB of system memory
* Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
* DVD playback requires DVD drive
* Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
* For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

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Dougsnake · 20 Nov 2008 at 14:44

mintsauce5 said:
i've just spoke to the shop where i got the card from they are aiming towards my psu not being powerful enough , i have a tagan modular 480w , would this be good enough to run my system , i had an nvidia 8800gts 640mb before this card and had no problems ?

nonsense running fine on my 430w seasonic im sure the tagan 480w is more than capable.

2p

-Aura- · 20 Nov 2008 at 15:22

i have a tagan modular 480w , would this be good enough to run my system

It was good beforehand, wasn`t it?

What smids says +1.

HeX · 20 Nov 2008 at 15:37

Blatantly mem failure, nothing to do with power.

Carl_Bennetts · 20 Nov 2008 at 15:46

this happened to me on a old ultra card i had. It was the card at fault nothing else.

Monkeynut · 20 Nov 2008 at 16:11

mintsauce5 said:
i've just spoke to the shop where i got the card from they are aiming towards my psu not being powerful enough , i have a tagan modular 480w , would this be good enough to run my system , i had an nvidia 8800gts 640mb before this card and had no problems ?

They are trying to fob you off to get you to buy a new PSU off them. Tell them you want a new graphics card and don't let them make it look like it's your fault.

arc@css · 20 Nov 2008 at 17:04

If it 'really' was a duff power supply then I doubt you'd even get a picture.

CSA · 20 Nov 2008 at 18:38

Unlucky on the dead 4850 on a lighter note i have that same monitor and same speakers..........