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6950 problem with drivers

It won't artifact on legacy drivers as there is next to no power being used on the card at all.

Dodgy gpu memory probably, only other thing it could be is if you have not seated the card properly or your psu is not up to the task/faulty.

As you said it happens on the dektop too, then it will more than likely be doing it on all games.

Try running Heaven benchmark and take some screen shots and contact customer support, they should sort you out with an rma as I don't think it's driver related.
 
WobblerJW said:
thing that is strange is it is fine if i don't install drivers as it will never do the corruption thing but as soon as i install the drivers it starts tearing and corrupting and in places u can see dodgy pixelating and this is in normal windows idle mode :<
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Yes but you can't play your games without the drivers so this a mute point, if it were a driver issue it would effecting a lot more people and if it were that bad there would be a hotfix so its very unlikely this is a software/driver issue.

I suspect you either have a temperature issue (the fans might spin up when the GPU is under load for example), GPU memory could be faulty or your PSU has a suspect 12v rail. Also what other games have your tired? Does it artifact in all your games?
 
i just tried it again 10 minutes ago and it lasted less than 2 mins then the drivers crash or freezes the whole pc up and i even tried to see if it was a heat problem and ramped the fans to 98% and tbh that made it worse. tried the resitting of it and also had a little sniff at it and to me its not the same smell as the currently installed and working Gfx (sniff tests are good if u know what burnt components smell like) and the PSu is 800w but can't see a name on it and it artifact even on desktop
 
6950 only draws something like 18w at idle so if you get artifacts there you can rule out your PSU, at least in that state. No name 800w could be worse than a named 400w so it might still not be good once the full 200w GPU power is utilised. This issue is not driver related in my opinion.

I'd go with some serous defect given the artifacts happen regardless of cooling.

I'd be looking at returning that card.
 
I had a very similar problem when upgrading from a 4850 to a 6950.
I blamed everything, from the games to the card, but i was wrong. it was the drivers.
I removed all drivers for the 6950 and all drivers for the 4850 with windows uninstaller and then Driver Sweeper (also did this in safe mode too to make sure there was no trace left) (Driver Sweeper is free if you Google it).
After that, i re-installed just the 6950 drivers (i think it was 11.3 at the time).
All then worked perfectly. (i now use 11.5 and all still works perfectly)

(NOTE if you uninstall ATI drivers with driver sweeper this can cause problems when trying to upgrade to Win 7 SP1, so maybe install SP1 first to save future problems).
 
WobblerJW said:
just tested it on a pc with a thermotake psu and does the exact same
:<
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Take a look at the temps, if that doesn't show up anything unusual then it's RMA time (most likely a faulty memory module). There's not a lot you can do about this you bound to get a few cards out of every 100 that are bad and it looks like you might have copped one.
 
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i would understand if it was overclocked badly it would do that but undervolting?

getting new psu then will send the gfx back if its the same
 
WobblerJW said:
i would understand if it was overclocked badly it would do that but undervolting?

getting new psu then will send the gfx back if its the same
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What makes you think buying a new psu is going to work when you have already stated that you have tried the card on another psu and the problem remained??

just tested it on a pc with a thermotake psu and does the exact same
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Yes, overclocked badly or not receiving the correct amount of volts.
Anyway if you don't want to try upping the volts alittle then just RMA it.
 
1. you never know both might be faulty in a way and plus i need a psu to still in old pc to sell it
2. i never play with voltages
 
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