Hi
Just got a new 8800gt 512mb oc back a couple of days ago after having to RMA my old card. I was getting weird artifacts on the screen along with lock ups in every game i played. Installed the new card and guess what, its worse than the one i sent back. Artifacts, tearing, games freezing and reverting to 4 colours. I tried playing a vid and i get hundreds of small artifacts on the screen. Rebooting the pc does'nt help after a couple of minutes its off again. Both cards rarely exceeded 65 degrees they average about 50 degrees and fans are controlled via Rivatuner. I have tried various nvidia drivers but they make no differance. The pc is made up of good quality componants: asus p5k premium, corsair dominator memory 620 watt corsair psu E8200 core 2 duo cpu etc. After looking up these problems on the internet there appears to be a very large amount of people who are suffering the same problems. The card is overclocked by BFG but only by a small amount. Can this be the problem? I cant complain about BFGs RMA setup as i had the new card within 6 days from sending off the old one. To get a new one giving worse problems than the old one is dissappointing. I have contacted them to ask for some help and also emailed Jeff Kozlowski whos name i found on the forum. Am i asking too much to have a differant model replace this second 8800GT as i am losing all faith in these cards. I would even be willing to pay towards a replacment as long as i dont get back another 8800GT. Do the 9800 models suffer these problems?
Has anyone found a way of fixing this 8800GT problem?
Just got a new 8800gt 512mb oc back a couple of days ago after having to RMA my old card. I was getting weird artifacts on the screen along with lock ups in every game i played. Installed the new card and guess what, its worse than the one i sent back. Artifacts, tearing, games freezing and reverting to 4 colours. I tried playing a vid and i get hundreds of small artifacts on the screen. Rebooting the pc does'nt help after a couple of minutes its off again. Both cards rarely exceeded 65 degrees they average about 50 degrees and fans are controlled via Rivatuner. I have tried various nvidia drivers but they make no differance. The pc is made up of good quality componants: asus p5k premium, corsair dominator memory 620 watt corsair psu E8200 core 2 duo cpu etc. After looking up these problems on the internet there appears to be a very large amount of people who are suffering the same problems. The card is overclocked by BFG but only by a small amount. Can this be the problem? I cant complain about BFGs RMA setup as i had the new card within 6 days from sending off the old one. To get a new one giving worse problems than the old one is dissappointing. I have contacted them to ask for some help and also emailed Jeff Kozlowski whos name i found on the forum. Am i asking too much to have a differant model replace this second 8800GT as i am losing all faith in these cards. I would even be willing to pay towards a replacment as long as i dont get back another 8800GT. Do the 9800 models suffer these problems?
Has anyone found a way of fixing this 8800GT problem?
