Graphics corruption

[DEL 707]

Taking a look at my little cousins PC since he's having a bit of a problem.
When ever he's playing a game or on youtube, after about 10 minutes or so, he starts getting graphics corruption then a driver error message. Been inside, clean as a whistle and all fans working.

I've seen the fault myself, to me it looks like the graphics card is on it's way out, it's my old Nvidia GTX 460.

I had memtest on it last night for 5 hours with no faults, got it running Prime95 at the moment and again, no faults.

Any suggestions? I'm tempted to take the card into work and reflow the chip, make or break time .

 

[ShivP]

I had a similar problem, RMA'd my graphics card and my new one should be arriving back here soon. I'll let you know how I get on

 

[DEL 707]

Well the cards dead.

Sooooo replacements, can anyone recommend a comparable card?

 

[RJC]

Do you have a price range in mind?

 

[DEL 707]

Sorry about the late reply.

They're looking around the £100 mark, he's main concern is being able to play Dragon Age 3 when it comes out.

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11222-06-20G) £107.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £95.99
Total : £213.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[DEL 707]

Thanks for the help, ordered the R7 260X for him.

 

[AllBodies]

Good choice, the R7 260X is significantly faster than the GTX 650 (non-Ti). So no competition there.