Problems with new GFX :9

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Problems with new GFX/Voltage Questions!

Hey guys, just wanted to double check on this before I put in an RMA!

Ordered an E8400 CPU and XFX 4890 GFX Card this week, to addon to my current system of:

Asus P5N-E SLI
4GB OCZ platinum 6400
1 x SATA 1 HDD, 2 x Samsung F1 750GB, 1 x OCZ SSD 30GB
Corsair Modular PSU 620W

The cpu went in and on fine, running a bit hotter than my E6300, which was a bit of a surprise, but ah well, just to check though, its on stock 3.00ghz @ 1.36Volts.

The graphics card however, seems to have massive distortion, I'm sure I have adequate power from the PSU to run it, but its giving me a totally corrupted screen:

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Which is happening no matter what I try, including 4 re-seats of the card and reboots, cmos reset, battery out, CLRTC etc.. and pretty sure its an on card fault.

Does this look RMA worthy to you all? And do you know if OcUK would happen to do refunds/lower swaps (ie: for an Ati 5770?)

Thanks
 
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jaket said:
I would have to agree. Have you tried the card in another machine?
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Sadly I do not have another PCI-E machine that can test it out, but reseated it many times, tried both ports on the back etc.. and really did everything I could to try and get it working at my end.

EsaT said:
Have you latest BIOS/is CPU supported?
Especially that voltage looks seriously too high and more fitting for old 65nm CPUs.
(I'm running my more demanding quad at 1.2V)
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Hiya, thanks for the reply, I have the latest (1404) bios for my Asus P5N-E SLI and the CPU is supported, on CPU List at http://asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=KyHOsOKWujC2QguJ&templete=2# its shown as compatible from 0803.

You think the voltage is too high? To be honest I've not altered it since stock, but could not see a "Load Optimal Defaults" option in the bios, and really wasn't sure what voltage to run at, so left it at default, was wondering why it was running at 34/40 on Core 0/1 compared to my E6300 which ran at 32/32.

Any more advice regarding more than the GFX problem would be really appreciated.

Thanks :)
 
Looks like a GPU problem to me especially as it's doing it a bootup.

Do you still have your/an old graphics card to put in there just to rule out a MB issue?
 
Yeah, I still have my X1950XT which is what I was upgrading from, have that all back in the system now and running flawlessly as before, just a bit faster due to the new cpu, and maybe a bit hotter due to my voltage? :D
 
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Did you reset your BIOS to defaults before installing the cpu?

Graphics card does look faulty, but this could have something to do with the volts to.
 
Just set the Vcore to 1.23 just to see how it goes, and in windows its still showing vcore as jumping between 1.28 and 1.32, strange :( Cpu core temps are the same as yesterday, too.

Etnies, I reset the cmoc, flashed the bios, reset cmos again, installed the cpu, and then reset it later on after the black screen/gfx trouble.
 
Just done a quick test on orthos, with Core 1 temps not moving once and Core 0 moving only 7-8 degrees, voltage stayed between 1.25-1.32 on Coretemp, not sure what to trust!

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When I contacted Intel regards my problem they basically said the CPU would protect it's self in an event which incurred high temps and I should contact the software makers as it could be there software.

Did not worry and continued using the system without problem, anything did happen I had emails from Intel.
 
Ah ok, might be wise for me to do the same thing as a safety net then, i'm assuming, should core 1 go over 40C it'll come to life in readings and then back down to reading as 40, even if its actually less than?
 
Had a few more plays today, V Core is set to 1.200000 in the bios, still reporting 1.26-1.29 via Cpu-Z, just on to Intel support right now to see what they say :)
 
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