Novice builder needs help

Geordiedave55 · 24 Feb 2013 at 12:30

Hey guys,

As the title says im a total novice. Built my first PC and after abit of kicking and screams im happy to say all is well........except one issue.

I have the Nvidia 650 Ti GC. When im on my desktop or surfing the net everything is peachy, but when I go into any game I get horizontal dark ripples up and down the screen.

I've googled this and tried turning V sync on and off and triple buffering on and off, but nowt seems to work. Sadly My monitor only has a refresh rate of 60mhz so cant try that.

Ive also isolated the PCI-express cable that goes into the GC to make sure that it isnt interference from another cable....nope not that either. Ive spoke to OCers and they want me to send the card back for them to test, but im hoping if any clever person knows of anything else I can try before I do.

Cheers in advance
Dave

Gibbo3771 · 24 Feb 2013 at 13:16

First, check temps. General computer use the graphics card is close to idle, when you fire up a game it starts to take on load so temperatures rise.

You can use GPU-Z to do that, post a screenshot if possible.

See if we can get to the bottom of it, won't be long till the dons swarm the thread

snips86x · 24 Feb 2013 at 15:12

Have you installed the most recent graphics drivers?

linwelin · 24 Feb 2013 at 15:59

sounds like a heat issue to me

Geordiedave55 · 24 Feb 2013 at 19:08

Geordiedave55 · 24 Feb 2013 at 19:08

Is that what you need?

LukieBoy007 · 24 Feb 2013 at 22:01

Temps are fine. Could just be a faulty card.

Randomface74 · 24 Feb 2013 at 22:05

If you send it back, take a video first - worst thing is when they say it's working and make you pay to get it back.

Geordiedave55 · 24 Feb 2013 at 23:47

What do you mean take a video?

Avenged7Fold · 25 Feb 2013 at 00:04

If you take a screenshot of the same thing but after a few mins of the card being at 100% load, like while using Furmark or something, it would be a bit more useful. Idle temps dont really tell you anything.

Gibbo3771 · 25 Feb 2013 at 07:47

Avenged7Fold said:
If you take a screenshot of the same thing but after a few mins of the card being at 100% load, like while using Furmark or something, it would be a bit more useful. Idle temps dont really tell you anything.

They can to a degree, 27° is pretty low for idle. If it was like 50° idle then it would 100% be a heat issue as that would most likely double during load.

As he states, put some load on the GPU, play one of those games that is causing the lines and then take a screenshot straight away.

Geordiedave55 · 25 Feb 2013 at 11:02

Erm the above was taken with skyrim running in the background so wasnt idle if that's what you mean?

Geordiedave55 · 25 Feb 2013 at 12:58

The above screen captures were taken while skyrim was playing in the background

Avenged7Fold · 27 Feb 2013 at 20:54

Geordiedave55 said:
The above screen captures were taken while skyrim was playing in the background

If you have a game open but minimized, it isnt putting load on the GPU because the GPU is still not doing anything for it.

Your screenshot says Load:0%

Use furmark and it will put full load on your GPU and show you the temperature you are trying to find out aswell.