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Flickering 2

Garonazz

Garonazz

Garonazz

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Heya

Basically a long time ago I made a series of threads regarding flickering lines during games, I got a GTX460 768mb and Just saw a similar thread a moment ago.

Basically it was a long and painful process, I RMA'd the cards 2 times, swapped PSU, swapped monitor, swapped adapter, and it stayed same. Overclocked and on stock. When I turn V.Sync on it fixes it in most games to some extent but not completely.

Some person said if mem/shader clock is jumping or something, that might be the problem, so I left Afterburner on and played BC2 for a moment, then I saw this

http://img534.imageshack.us/i/73379862.jpg/

Look at shader clock, something not right there, or is it ?
if so, whats causing the problem ? Reminder: I RMA'd the card 2 times and got new one twice aswell.

This isnt that big of a issue. Only thing I havent tried yet is is a HDMI adapter, but my monitor doesnt support it I dont think. or Is there a cable that connects monitor with DVI and card with HDMI ?

Well anyway, suggestions ?
 
Also, buying a GTX560 soon so Ill see if that will fix it if theres nothing else. Not big of a deal I guess anyway.

Rest of my specs are Phenom II X4 965

Coolermaster GX550W

G.Skill 4GBDDR3

Also, forgot to mention in first post, I tried my friends corsair ram aswell.

EDIT: Clock/Memspeed seems to have been jumping at those times although I didnt notice any FPS drops... so how can this be fixed ?
 
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Hey mate, thanks for the help.

As I said, I tried friends Corsair memory aswell. I guess this can be ruled out.
I also ran everything at stock, no go.
 
Sigh, I dont think a GTX560 will help this as Ive tried the gtx460 in friends PC and it was fine. one thing left is the mobo... but how can it produce such lines ? tbh id say my first bet was GPU and memory, then PSU, Monitor. All ruled out.
 
Ok, ive been reading up on this again and a lot of people suggest page distortion, and turning on V.Sync to get rid of this.
Ok, but in that case, how come at my friends house we tried my monitor and without vsync, and his monitor without vsync, and we didnt get anything but at home I do ? Cant be the monitor surely can it ? must be something inside that PC.... Im not sure if a motherboard can be the issue, I checked for leaks etc, didnt notice anything.
 
Yep, OS reinstall about twice. Also reinstalled drivers multiple times. Nothing helps.

I keep thinking its something to do with the monitor, but like I said its been tested and nope... was thinking it might be refresh rate issue.

Well now it has to be either Mobo or cables which ive tried aswell.

The mobo is quite cheap asus 760 socket one, I bought it for like 35 quid from Ocuk... that might be it too..
 
:D

Too late for RMA I think, Im just gonna buy a new one. Im also debating if I should buy a new case aswell, I dont think a 560Ti would fit in there. Although my GTX460 from asus fits in no problem.

Hmm, how would I put this..

(Card) - - - - - - - -- - - - -----------)

If you put fingers on (Card) till the end, thats how much space I got.
 
Shouldnt be that big in that case. What about 6950 ?

Although now im thinking if I should buy a new mobo first. What do you think ?

Edit: This is the mobo I got

Asus M4A78LT-M
 
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Yeah thats exactly the kind of lines im getting. Could you suggest a cable avaible at Ocuk that could fix this problem ? A Link would be appreciated.

Also, can you answer this. If we used both adapters at my friends house and both monitors, how come im getting the lines ?
 
I brought my cable and my adapter. First we tried his adapter and his monitor, no lines. then tried his adapter and my monitor, no lines. then my cable and my adapter, no lines.

His monitor is the same res as mine.
Also we tested his PSU at my house, which is 750W corsair, ive got a coolermaster 550W.
 
Cant bring the tower unfortunately, he's not home for another month.
Dont know anyone except him that has a gaming PC, and worse dont know anyone with a DVI monitor.

Id like to know for sure what this is before I waste money on a monitor that will do the job same as this one but still show lines tbh, and at friends yeah, with adapter and everything I had no lines like I said.

So what cable do I need ? DVI to VGA ?
 
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