New graphics card problem

[x22dan]

Hey, i came down today and bought a new MSI R7950 GFX card.
i uninstalled my old card settings/drivers, took out my old card. Placed the new one in its place then installed the drivers and software.
After about an hour of game play i start to get flickering images and blue dots appearing all over my screen whilst playing battlefield 3.

So i go to amd and download their latest driver, but still this doesn't solve my problem
Can anyone please help???

 

[x22dan]

PSU is a corsair 650 TXU.
Havnt done any OC just plugged my card in from box so using factory settings

temps are 55+

MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR IV FORMULA

Not sure what a mobo revision is?

 

[x22dan]

 

[x22dan]

Can you put everything back at stock speeds and try the tests again?

The 7950 TF3 cards have had a few problems recently, it's possible your card's VRAM is faulty

How do i go about putting everything back to stock speed?

 

[x22dan]

when it comes to upping voltages and stuff i'm not familiar with overclocking as I've never done it before.
just downloading the software now. will post once its ran

 

[x22dan]

Bench marks tests.

after completeing that my screen is now flicking whilst just on this forum!

 

[x22dan]

sounds more like the card is borked... i would try it in another computer and see if it does the same.

only have one pc in the household


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[x22dan]

where abouts are you located??

Manchester

 

[x22dan]

Listen, It would be impossible for manufactures to test the cards properly all you have to do, and most do this anyway without realising Is run the card through a bit of gentle load for 15 mins (installing drivers) then bench it and monitor the temps...then make a fan curve etc.

Make sure it will overclock at least 50mhz 100 is better also the memory even if you will never overclock it's no good if the card has no headroom reliability wise.

So after a few hours if you have no problems, that card should now last you for as long as you want to keep it, providing you keep the temps down and always let it cool down after hard use for 10 mins.

It's the nature of electronics that if it's ok for the first 1% of it's life it will be fine until 85/90% of it's life expectancy, providing excess heat and thermal shock are avoided.

I'm not a gambling man but being realistic I would test those cards thoroughly individually with the expectations they are from the faulty batch
but don't worry about it, what will be will be...and I hope you lucky

once again i tried uninstalling, reinstalling benchmarking ect ect
and still im getting artifacts all over the screen even while my computer is idle.
Reverting back to my old card until OcUK contacts me back