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OcUK X1950Pro 512mb - Artifacts / Errors - Help

Remove all accessories not needed like sound cards, etc

Change all the cabling if and where you can. Reinstall windows, I think you've allready done enough to go through with the RMA really.
Try it in a friends machine is all I'd really recommend to save wasting postage, etc
 
Hey,

I'm getting exactly the same problems, Ive recently got an OcUK ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB PCI-E .

Looking at your videos I'd say mine are maybe a little more severe: Im getting the same type of black and white squares, maybe at least 20-30 per frame and the ATItool artifact scan is just a screen full of artifacts after around 2 minutes.

Interestingly, I've also got an ASRock board (939 dual sata) (motherboard - they master it!) and tried the steps outlined by Scougar - It didnt make a difference.

How recently did you get yours, i got mine afew weeks ago - I'm beginning to suspect Its a dodgy batch of cards.

Anyway, I suppose the next step is to RMA it, but given this is an "OcUK" card... who do i RMA it to? OcUK presumably?

How long do these things usually take?

Cheers,

Pete


edit: wow, my first post after > 1yr of lurking
 
Heres an artifact scan after ~3 minutes.

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I'm wondering if heat is an issue - it feels damn hot, and the stock cooling isnt up to much, plenty of airflow in my case though, same results with the case open
 
An Update.

The RMA failed, and I have been sent back the same card with a note saying no fault found.

What the hell am I suppose to do with it now?

It has done the same thing on two different spec machines, and I have videos showing the fault.

I've now been left with a £75 door stop.

I don't get what else I'm supposed to do here apart from going through the RMA process again? :confused:
 
my sapphire x1950pro has just started overheating recently although it had worked fine since january. i know i can't rma because they won't find a fault (it's intermittent), so i've just propped up a case fan on dvd cases to blow air over it and touch wood.... it's fine - for now. :)

hardly ideal but i've got no choice. i'm not spending money on 3rd party cooling or wasting the postage costs to send it off only to get the same card back. :p
 
MonkeyMan said:
I don't get what else I'm supposed to do here apart from going through the RMA process again? :confused:
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Well if they sent it back with no fault found then perhaps just an overheating issue. That halfmoon flower cooler is ok for the core but nothing else imo, memory was roasting hot on back of pcb and fairly warm on the front when i did checks. Have you tried putting a fan blowing accross the memory at all yet. :confused:
 
Sean_UK said:
Well if they sent it back with no fault found then perhaps just an overheating issue. That halfmoon flower cooler is ok for the core but nothing else imo, memory was roasting hot on back of pcb and fairly warm on the front when i did checks. Have you tried putting a fan blowing accross the memory at all yet. :confused:
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I've had a desk fan blowing on it and it made no difference. Might of delayed it a few seconds, but the same result none the less.

Wish I'd never bought the bloody thing now, serves me right for getting a cheap one. :(
 
Shame, the two or three i installed in systems built lately are running fine (about 2 months passed). As i said before; did'nt like the temps observed so played it safe due to not been my money and used one Zalman L bracket + one 120mm fan to chill things a tad.
 
I had the Agp version of that card a few years ago in my old P4 I had at the time. Great little card for the money and enabled me to play Crysis on a mixture of low/medium/high at 1024x768 on my old rig.

Anyway, your problem looks suspiciously like an overheating issue. Set the fan to spin at 100%, make sure its at stock speeds and this may sound silly but make sure there is plenty of air around your case, plenty of cooling in it, and make sure no air vents are blocked by dust which can accumulate in a shockingly short space of time. Downlaod a free program called "Speedfan" to monitor and control all your fan speeds (I set mine to spin at 100% all the time as they are very quiet and my system runs nice and cool), and download Msi Afterburner which is a free Gpu overclocking tool that works with any Gpu but you can also use it to get a more presise reading of your Gpu temperatures and also control the fan speed on the Gpu. Good luck buddy.
 
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Wow, lol, nearly 4 year old thread resurrection! must be a record?

Sonic did you even bother to read the OP? "cheap 1950 pros" on OcUK must have set alarm bells ringing, no?
 
Funnily enough, I've just retired 2 of these OcUK X1950's over the last couple of months after a good life of long use.

On one, most of the caps gave up and exploded (no wonder it crashed whenever 3d was enabled), and the other just crashed the PC a lot.

But they did well for the price sold at the time :)
 
Yeah, I was really impressed with the one I had a few years back. I knew Crysis was coming out (as you can tell this was some time ago) and wanted a Gpu capable of running it. I was using Agp on a P4 2.8. The X1950 was at the time the most powerful card you could get in Agp so I went for it and was really happy with the results. I've got a 4650 1gb now which is overclocked and runs Crysis beautifully on my e6600 overclocked core 2 duo PC at 1280x720 (my tv's max vga res - although it does do 1080p through hdmi or component).
 
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