Firefox and the 6870

[Kosmiche]

I'm experiencing artefacts with this combination.

In afterburner I notice my clocks switch from full to idling when I have firefox open.

I get pixels onscreen, I'm a bit worried this might be damaging my card.

Going to try another browser to see if it keeps doing it.

Anyone else experienced this?

 

[Orcvader]

Which 6870 is it?

Does it still appear if you turn hardware acceleration off? Does it happen in games?

What is the rest of the system setup?

I have a 6850 and nothing is wrong with my Firefox.

 

[opethdisciple]

Are you overclocking?

Laest version of drivers and Firefox?

 

[TheRealDeal]

I'm experiencing artefacts with this combination.

In afterburner I notice my clocks switch from full to idling when I have firefox open.

I get pixels onscreen, I'm a bit worried this might be damaging my card.

Going to try another browser to see if it keeps doing it.

Anyone else experienced this?

I use firefox and my clocks stay in 2d mode. I have never experienced this in the 1 year i have had the card.

 

[Firegod]

Hmmm very interesting. My clocks go to 3D values too when using Firefox! Never noticed before.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Hmmm very interesting. My clocks go to 3D values too when using Firefox! Never noticed before.

Do they stay there or just jump up then back down? Just got my clocks to jump to 3d then back to 2d by quickly flicking to ccc then back to forums.

 

[Phil2008]

Firefox uses the 3d of my 6950 aswel, and temps increase by 5 -10c. If you scroll up and down fast on a webpage, the gpu bangs up to full power.

 

[Firegod]

Do they stay there or just jump up then back down? Just got my clocks to jump to 3d then back to 2d by quickly flicking to ccc then back to forums.

Yeah they jump up and down. I was also flicking back to Firefox and the CCC.

 

[spirits247]

Not sure why you get artefacts - haven't tried Firefox 9.0.1 yet as I went back to 3.6.24 for addons and IE9 for general browsing due to GPU clock and temp issues. I'll be trying it again in a few days and let you know how it performs on my 6870.

Investigated a while back and basically it would do what others mentioned above:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18332818

Disabling GPU acceleration didn't work - scrolling flash-free webpages still triggered max GPU clock periods in certain situations and temp rises of 5-10c.