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I got a second hand 6800GT card that had a NvSilencer on it. I think it's a revision 2 cooler as it has funny little squishy grey pads for the memory chips.
The card is running at stock speeds. My system spec doesn't really matter as I've tried the card in 3 different configs and get the same problem. Using a 480 watt Antec PSU.
I get pc lockup problems in games, that I *think* is due to overheating memory chips on the graphics card?
Basically, I'd play BF2 and after a random period of time, weirdness happens. Trees go purple, or else the game just all of a sudden will lock up the entire pc, with coloured garbled lines and boxes and stuff all over the screen. This happens in CS Source too except the coloured screen lockup weirdness is green
CS also shows polygon stretching too (if it doesn't just suddenly lock up).. when you see long lines going all over the place across the screen. It's happened in lots of other games too.
OpenGL games seem to be ok(generally just ID games), I have yet to have the pattern lockup problem on one of those. Generally it's just stuff start looking weird, blackened textures in Quake 4. I can play OpenGL games for hours and not even see any kind of problem occur.
If I get a lockup, and then reboot, the screen is perfect. No corruption in the bios/bootup screen ever, and windows is always perfect. Temps for the GPU idle around 45 degrees and gets to about 52/53 under load. (partly why i'm presuming its a memory overheating problem.)
I tried reattatching the cooler, but I wasn't entire sure what to do with those grey squishy pads for the memory.. Do I apply thermal paste to those, or do I leave them clean? If I was to replace the pads, what would I use?
Thanks
The card is running at stock speeds. My system spec doesn't really matter as I've tried the card in 3 different configs and get the same problem. Using a 480 watt Antec PSU.
I get pc lockup problems in games, that I *think* is due to overheating memory chips on the graphics card?
Basically, I'd play BF2 and after a random period of time, weirdness happens. Trees go purple, or else the game just all of a sudden will lock up the entire pc, with coloured garbled lines and boxes and stuff all over the screen. This happens in CS Source too except the coloured screen lockup weirdness is green
CS also shows polygon stretching too (if it doesn't just suddenly lock up).. when you see long lines going all over the place across the screen. It's happened in lots of other games too.OpenGL games seem to be ok(generally just ID games), I have yet to have the pattern lockup problem on one of those. Generally it's just stuff start looking weird, blackened textures in Quake 4. I can play OpenGL games for hours and not even see any kind of problem occur.
If I get a lockup, and then reboot, the screen is perfect. No corruption in the bios/bootup screen ever, and windows is always perfect. Temps for the GPU idle around 45 degrees and gets to about 52/53 under load. (partly why i'm presuming its a memory overheating problem.)
I tried reattatching the cooler, but I wasn't entire sure what to do with those grey squishy pads for the memory.. Do I apply thermal paste to those, or do I leave them clean? If I was to replace the pads, what would I use?
Thanks
I think he was selling his pc off though..