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What temperature is ok for 6800GT?

caff

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caff

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My graphics card (Leadtek 6800GT A400 AGP) has started displaying a small amount of corrupt graphics in most games - white snow, blocks flashing, stretched polygons etc. It is happening immediately, not after several minutes as you'd expect from overheating. I've had the card since January 2005 and it's been faultless so far.

Could this be overheating? In the Nvidia temperature monitor it shows the card as 60'C at idle, and 70'C at max (ie. when I alt-tab out of a game).

I clean the inside of the case and fans regularly to remove dust.

In this case, is it possible to get this replaced under warranty?
 
If it happens immediately then i'd be inclined to believe it's a fault on the card!

When did it start doing this? You don't overclock do you?

If it's still within warranty get it RMA'd.

Temps look warm but not so much that they'd lead to corruption or failure!

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Yeah, that sounds dodgey. Try a full uninstall, using a good driver cleaner and then re-install. If it is still happening you probably have a problem card.

70C is well within operating temps - I think they throttle at about 110C... don't leave it till it is out of warranty :)
 
The temperatures are well within limits, a 6800 series card is by default set to throttle at around 120C, mine has reached 80C before under load without any problems and I know of others that have touched 100C without issue.

It does sound like a card issue, you could try taking it out and reseating to see if the contact has become dodgy. If that doesn't work then I'd see about getting it replaced although most warranties are only for 12 months which will make it difficult.
 
I don't overclock no, for fear of stuff like this happening

I've reseated it and properly cleaned it out, checked the power cables etc.

The only change I did make recently was to install a wireless PCI card.. but I can't see why this should cause probs? The PSU is a Tagan 480W and has been very reliable so don't think that's the problem.

I haven't seen any graphical problems in Windows, just in games.

I'll give the driver cleaner / full re-install a go, hopefully that might sort it.

The ever-helpful people at OcUK say its under 2 year warranty so should be ok to RMA if I send it back to them.
 
If you try taking out the wireless network card does the 6800gt work ok? I seem to recall part of the FCC regulations governing electronic devices is that they must accept interference, even that causing harmful operation so that might be what is happening here.

If you do get the 6800gt working without interference when the wireless card is removed then you could try moving it to another PCI slot to see if that stops the effects.

That is good about the warranty though :)
 
Ok I'll give that a go too

Maybe I should just pick up a 7800GS to replace it? £230? Not sure if the performance jump would justify it tho.. :)
 
caff said:
My graphics card (Leadtek 6800GT A400 AGP) has started displaying a small amount of corrupt graphics in most games - white snow, blocks flashing, stretched polygons etc. It is happening immediately, not after several minutes as you'd expect from overheating. I've had the card since January 2005 and it's been faultless so far.

Could this be overheating? In the Nvidia temperature monitor it shows the card as 60'C at idle, and 70'C at max (ie. when I alt-tab out of a game).

I clean the inside of the case and fans regularly to remove dust.

In this case, is it possible to get this replaced under warranty?
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Hi.. I have the exact same card as you, mine also is overheating due to a dieing fan. When I say overheating i mean hitting (and going over!) the 120C core slow down lol and 'idling' at 88C... with these mad temps I never see any artifacts just mega drops in framerate where the gpu is clocking itself down. (dont worry ive ordered an artic cooler! phew my gpu says! :D)

Would lead me to believe your card may well of become faulty... as someone else has said do a full reinstall of drivers and see if that helps
 
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Mine started doing this, so i volt modded it in the bios and it sorted the problem. Also got me some extra clocks :D. Im running an arctic cooler and my temps barely scratch 50. Previously they were around 80-90 with the stock cooler.
 
I'm confused now....

My machine crashed today (when I was testing out CS:Source) and wouldn't reboot at all. I thought the graphics card had died, so I swapped out with an old Ti4800 I have kicking about. Sure enough the machine boots but it kept crashing when I got into windows.

I've now tried swapping out the memory with an old 512mb stick and it seems fine now... So perhaps the 2gb of value select ram is faulty?

Gonna try and put back in the 6800GT and see how it fares with this memory
 
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