So during a fairly long gaming session on BF3 my trusty gts 450 started doing very strange artifacting, this only occurred once before and since i rolled back the drivers to a known working one its been totally fine... should I be worried my GPU is on its way out?
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Weird artifacts suddenly apearing
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If it's a one off, I wouldn't worry. Also, if you have a problem with one particular game, it's nothing to concern yourself about. Only if the problem keeps reoccuring in different situations then it may be a sign of the hardware giving up.
I would think that your 450 has some life left in it still.
I would think that your 450 has some life left in it still.
I get a little artifacting in the odd game (Hard Reset, CS:S, Stalker etc), though all I have needed to do so far is to drop the core clock down by 5 - 10 mhz, and it's always cleared the problem up. For this reason, I can't be bothered to rma mine, when in all likelihood what could well happen is that I simply receive my card back with no fault found. That said, it does 'seem' that the frequency is increasing a little, so my advice would be to obviously keep an eye on it, and try dropping the core clock down in very small increments like I've done. Same applies to the memory clock as well, though I would alter only one clock at a time, so you know what is / isn't working.
I don't know if there's a general pattern to it, but I have wondered if factory overclocked models of cards are a little more likely to artifact that stock speed ones? Maybe it's not related, but I remember when Gigabyte had a very high return rate of the SOC gtx480's - a good number of people were having to drop the clocks well below the overclock to get the temps reasonable / less artifacts.
I don't know if there's a general pattern to it, but I have wondered if factory overclocked models of cards are a little more likely to artifact that stock speed ones? Maybe it's not related, but I remember when Gigabyte had a very high return rate of the SOC gtx480's - a good number of people were having to drop the clocks well below the overclock to get the temps reasonable / less artifacts.
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Sometimes reference boards are not as easily overclocked or will not reach as high overclocks as some of the non-standard boards. I always recommend any card made by Asus I have always managed to get very high clocks on their cards. So if you are going for non-overclocked make sure it's a decent PCB capable of massive voltages and a decent cooler
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ASUS have great PCB's and overclockability you can push them really far. My previous card was a GTX580 which was easily pushed to just under 1000 Mhz core clock. The 680 I can pull 1306Mhz boost clock no problem. That's a pretty big FPS boost over stock clocks.