I didnt see any of the above type massive glitching today. I thought I might have seen some artifacting on Farcry, and there were some odd screen jumps on Call of Duty. However I'm not familiar with these games, and might have just been down to drivers etc.
What we did get was a crash on Farcry 2 soon after running it in tandem with furmark. And call of duty crashed twice whilst I was there, looking to be when the card had warmed up.
My cpu was back running with the Intel stock cooler at 3ghz, so it couldn't stress the card enough running Farcry 2 on its own. Not sure taking the Zalman to get 3.8ghz out of it would have made much difference. Alfie reported seeing roughly half the frame rate on that game as he did with his quad - as you would expect.
Call of duty seemed less cpu intensive, so with the AA whacked up I think thats why we got a crashes out of it. My system has been rock solid in the last month since it was built so I'm not used to anything crashing. The cpu was running .33 more volts since the last time it was at 3Ghz on the stock cooler, so I cant think of any other explanation than the gfx card.
The clincher is that Alfie says the full system lock up on Call of Duty 4 is exactly the same as he gets with that card in his machine. And again his machine is fine with his old 8800 GT?X. Two different OS's (XP64 and Vista64?) plus two different machine configs (X38 and P45) getting the exact same crash on COD4 only with that card is too much of a coincidence imho.
What we did get was a crash on Farcry 2 soon after running it in tandem with furmark. And call of duty crashed twice whilst I was there, looking to be when the card had warmed up.
My cpu was back running with the Intel stock cooler at 3ghz, so it couldn't stress the card enough running Farcry 2 on its own. Not sure taking the Zalman to get 3.8ghz out of it would have made much difference. Alfie reported seeing roughly half the frame rate on that game as he did with his quad - as you would expect.
Call of duty seemed less cpu intensive, so with the AA whacked up I think thats why we got a crashes out of it. My system has been rock solid in the last month since it was built so I'm not used to anything crashing. The cpu was running .33 more volts since the last time it was at 3Ghz on the stock cooler, so I cant think of any other explanation than the gfx card.
The clincher is that Alfie says the full system lock up on Call of Duty 4 is exactly the same as he gets with that card in his machine. And again his machine is fine with his old 8800 GT?X. Two different OS's (XP64 and Vista64?) plus two different machine configs (X38 and P45) getting the exact same crash on COD4 only with that card is too much of a coincidence imho.