Are you still getting the artifacts elsewhere, aside from bc2? BC2 seems to have some sort of rare artifact issue on some maps with the 400 and 500 series. I, and some friends i game with who also have nvidia 500 cards sometimes see that exact corruption, mainly on that map oddly enough.
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Dead MSI GTX 570 RMA'd and reported working, not sure what to do next
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Are you still getting the artifacts elsewhere, aside from bc2? BC2 seems to have some sort of rare artifact issue on some maps with the 400 and 500 series. I, and some friends i game with who also have nvidia 500 cards sometimes see that exact corruption, mainly on that map oddly enough.
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Interesting Solly, but irrelevant - as the card is still epic fail and not fit for purpose.
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Card is a lie. Well and truly agonner.
Same experience here for me, just prior to ocuk introducing the web note system. I actually didn't notice the drive was second hand until it died in my pc and I spotted the maxtor refurb sticker on the drive.
I could never get through on the phones, sent in emails and faxes, all ignored for a week or so. I tried to get trading standards involved, but they'd also have needed to contact ocuk as well. You can imagine I was pretty miffed at getting 2nd hand refurb goods from ocuk after paying for new.
In the end I ended up having to get maxtor to replace it, sadly with another refurb but at least I got my drive back. That was the last time I used ocuk, and that was years ago now.
Shame really, a quick apology and a (brand) new drive would have sorted it for me. Just shows how one poor experience when things go wrong can wreck a supplier relationship.
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Yes, the card has problems in CS Source too. The purple colouring appears in CS, however there are less artifacts, more distortion all over the screen. I've not got any games installed atm, however last time the Windows 7 desktop screwed up with all sorts of strange artifacts, so it doesn't seem to be an issue localised to BC2.
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Can you try setting your Pci-e mhz to something like 99/101/102/109/110. I have had a pci-e card that i thought was borked not work at 100mhz bizarrely.
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I had a MSI 570 with problems similar to yours.
It was the OC edition of the 570, so what I did was underclock the card memory from factory to default 570 speeds, it cleared all the artifacting up right away.
Then I knew I had a 570 that just wasn't up to the job of its factory overclock. Wasn't hard to get it RMA'd after that however I didn't buy from OCUK.
It was the OC edition of the 570, so what I did was underclock the card memory from factory to default 570 speeds, it cleared all the artifacting up right away.
Then I knew I had a 570 that just wasn't up to the job of its factory overclock. Wasn't hard to get it RMA'd after that however I didn't buy from OCUK.
Shouldnt have to do that. If it is an oc version and not able to sustain oc speeds then it is not fit for purpose.
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I get the idea a lot of overclocked cards aren't capable of sustaining the overclock. I've had a few of them, my current 5870 had to be flashed to stock.
OP has a stock card though.
OP has a stock card though.
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Yep, stock card. Tried doing some stuff with a single client in Eve online last night, minor artifacts from the word go, gradually increasing over the space of 5 mins until the entire client went red and white (just 2 colours) and locked up and then crashed. Before it was screwed, I'd happily run 4 clients at the same time without any issues.
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Having just sent my card back to MSi, I must say this thread concerns me 
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Sorry if its been said but could it be a motherboard or pciE slot problem? Tried in a mates pc with same games and stuff?
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Had the same in the past, returned cards to OCUK with screenshots of the fault, and OCCT going mental with errors, had them sent back with NFF.
Returned to the manufacturers (EVGA, and Gigabyte) who have tested them as lo and behold faulty.
Credit to OCUK that they did refund me when presented with the report from the manufacturer.
However the extra week of messing about, and the fact you get charged for a NFF is rather off putting.
Obviously the OCUK testing methodology for GPU's is way off the mark, as this is hardly the first case of this happening.
(from what i can tell it seems to be looped furmark and some crysis loops, which tbh is a pretty bad test, as neither of those tend to show artifacting/memory errors very well).
If they'd run OCCT Error Test, and a different engine game they'd have spotted the fault straight away.
Returned to the manufacturers (EVGA, and Gigabyte) who have tested them as lo and behold faulty.
Credit to OCUK that they did refund me when presented with the report from the manufacturer.
However the extra week of messing about, and the fact you get charged for a NFF is rather off putting.
Obviously the OCUK testing methodology for GPU's is way off the mark, as this is hardly the first case of this happening.
(from what i can tell it seems to be looped furmark and some crysis loops, which tbh is a pretty bad test, as neither of those tend to show artifacting/memory errors very well).
If they'd run OCCT Error Test, and a different engine game they'd have spotted the fault straight away.
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Could always ask them how they test, they should be able to tell you.
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A big hammer?
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Kill it with static..? Run an old game without V-sync enabled (I'm not sure if that would kill it though).