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am i overheating?

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is this because my gc is overheating? this was 1 hour into playing...



when i got back to windows i quickly went to look at the gc tempos and the gpu was 67c and vram was 65. thanx

im prime stable
 
Is your graphics card overclocked? It looks like it may be a VRam problem as it seems to be artifacting/tearing from a quick glance. It could be the temperatures but I think it unlikely as 67C is still within comfortable limits.
 
you need to run ati tool or tray tools artifact scanner to get you load temps otherwise your just being silly here.

i have seen a drop of around 10c as soon as tray tools artifact scanner is stopped and that drop takes around 10 seconds to take place. so your never gonna get to see your real ingame temps unless you have the osd active in tray tools.
 
atrifacts look like they are memory related, either overheating memory or too high memory clocks. since they appear if you havebeen playing for 1 hour makes me guess its heat related.

the stock cooler if its the same as the one on the x1900xt is crap since it actually dumps its gpu heat into the ram. the ram on these cards i read hardly gets warm at all even with no form of passive or active cooling.

best thing to do is run rthdribl at full screen and 16xAA since for me the vram counter shows 220mb of vram being used.

man i love traytools they show so much more info than CCC.

this way from cold if the rthdribl does not artifact but starts artifacting after being run for a period of time then its deffo heat related.

suggest u get zalman vf900cu and just leave the memory bare since it will do far better at ram cooling even if they have no heatsinks.
 
Usually

flashing dots/sparklies = Memory
triangles/tearing like in your case = GPU

try underclocking the GPU or dropping the OC back
 
best tester got gpu is ati tool. or tray tools. both have the same type of artifact scanner.

i suggest you use it to do all your core overclock testing on. otherwise you risk problems occuring.
 
The Asgard said:
Usually

flashing dots/sparklies = Memory
triangles/tearing like in your case = GPU

try underclocking the GPU or dropping the OC back
Click to expand...

its the other way round ;) :p
 
on all my old card if i overclock the ram too much i get wierd polygons sticking out of peoples heads etc.

core overclock shows funny coloured pixels here and there. sparklies as they are called.

but memory has always been funny polygon spikes or wierd coloured spots on textures.
 
I've had two cards die on me in the past three years, and they exhibited exactly what you're seeing. I never overclocked them, and temps were normal, clear fans etc.

No idea what the problem(s) were, but luckily I could afford to replace with a slightly better model. I always suspected my Tagan 480W power supply was at fault though, as when that died it also took out the 2nd graphics card.

Since replacing the PSU, not had any problems.
 
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