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Potentially Faulty Graphics card?

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Soldato
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Ok, so I've had the current system for close to a year. Its running a i7 920 @ 3.8, 6 gig ram, samsung 128gb ssd, and most importantly a Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 "Rampage GLH" 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI.

I have two monitors connected up, one a normal 22 inch widescreen monitor, and my 'gaming monitor' which is a Samsung 46" LED TV.

In the last couple of weeks, I've started to notice some juddering, I guess you'd call it. When playing games like GTA4, Bioshock or Napolean Total War, every now and then the screen shakes. Its brief, like a couple of frames out of sync, almost as if somebody shook the HDMI cable or something.

It doesnt occur at all while playing World of Warcraft, interestingly enough, but then again you cant really describe WoW as being graphically intensive.

I've also had a few complete lock ups, something which hasnt happened before.

I've done the usual things, reinstalled DirextX, reinstalled drivers, is there anything more I can do to try and diagnose the fault? I dont have a spare graphics card to try, and I dont know anybody that would have one either so that option is out.

I'm hoping its not the card packing up, as my bank balance really cant stretch to a new card at this time.

Any help greatly appreciated.
 
Its not something I've heard of previously, and having just googled it, no its not something I've installed.

I should also add, I just tried disabling my 46" monitor and playing several games on the 22" on the offchance it was a faulty HDMI connection, fault reoccured exactly the same on the 22".

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Hmm, I'm starting to think this has to be a faulty card - just tried Mass Effect 2 which I completed barely a month back, now getting the same issues there, and I havent made any significant changes to my system in that time.

Edit: I've just had a look at CPUID and temperatures seem to be pretty high, running at 85-90C while idle which doesnt seem right. Havent got time to open the old girl up tonight to see what the issue is, but anybody else know what sort of range I should be seeing?
 
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