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Help needed - 285 OC is starting to stink!

buchtis

buchtis

buchtis

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Swear to God this will be my last thread here for a while, over the week I feel like i've started about 10.

Anyway just started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R SoC with Oblivion Lost 2.2 and after about an hour my card started to produce a burning electrical smell. So far these are the things i've done:

1) Uninstall the drivers, restart then download the NVidia driver folder. Re-download fresh ones and install again.

2) Re-steated the card, made sure now wires or foreign objects were in the way.

3) Ran a different game, CS:S which seems to be working fine.

Now my power supply has only one 6 pin plug so i'm using a 2x4 pin to 6 pin adapter. However the adapter i've got seems to be missing one pin, if you look at the adapter if it's facing you, the top row middle pin is missing and there isn't a wire there.

Is that what's causing it i.e it's not getting enough power or do I need to ring the Wales depot again for a new card. My PSU is 800 watt so I don't think that's the issue.

Thanks.
 
Well I though of doing that at 1st, then S.T.A.L.K.E.R started to get really weird artifacts like the walls would be a mirror and I could see myslef playing.


I'll download MSI Afterburner now and give it a shot.

Do you know the acceptable range of temperatures for this card? And does the missing pin in the 6 pin adapter thing still O.K?

Thanks.
 
I have no idea at all, on the side it says Clouris or something like that then 800W. How do I check the AMP thing?
 
I've downloaded the MSI Afterburner and the numbers are worrying me.

Just had about an hour on COD 4, 1680 x 1550 maxed out and it's at 80c which seems ridiculously high. I've not touched any settings in the MSI thing, i've just downloaded it to check temperatures.
 
|Oh that's good to know then lol. So is my card/PSU O.K then? COD 4 / CS:S seem to work fine although i've only tested those two, it's just STALKER that's giving me problems. The reason i'm worried is i've never had these problems with my old cards, only this new one.
 
This is really starting to get on me **** now. COD 4 and CS:S work fine, I boot up STALKER and the ****ing thing goes crazy.

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Why is it only doing it on this card? Is it because it's new? I'll get a new 6 pin cable when I go into town tomorrow. I was really chuffed when they sent me this card this morning, now it seems a bag of ****.
 
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