whats wrong with this

sajtion · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:42

i don't understand why i get artifacting when my temps seem fine. i have five case fans and artic cooler fitted on my video card x850. my case temp is about 48c. here are two pictures

Zefan · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:45

sajmy said:
case temp is about 48c.

That is pretty hot for case temp AFAIK. Looks like memory errors to me but I can't think why it'd be happening.

Dutch Guy · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:54

The corruption is from videocard memory overheating/being clocked too far, perhaps the Arctic Cooler isn't cooling the memorychips effectively?

sajtion · 25 Apr 2006 at 14:03

i had also a suspision that it was memory chips on video card overheating. when i took artic cooler off, the thermal pads were all sticky and nearly melted. they came with artic cooler packaging which is only thing i have. i don't know if i'm screwing the bolts to hard or is somthing else. how can i solve this?

sajtion · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:07

can i clean memory chips with some ordinary alcohol or water as there is some dry thermal paste on them. when i run artifact scan everything seem alright for about 15 seconds and then suddenly i get a lot of artifacts

first 15 seconds

after 15 seconds

sajtion · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:01

these are thermal pads from artic cooling. one word of advise don't buy powercolor video card because memory chips overheat way too much

Dutch Guy · 27 Apr 2006 at 08:45

Try underclocking the memory and test again to see if that helps.

sajtion · 29 Apr 2006 at 14:53

i was wondering if my card is now damaged beyond repair. now i get this on screen but i still don't know what the problem is??

Zefan · 29 Apr 2006 at 14:56

Looks dead

Efour · 29 Apr 2006 at 16:10

Jesus lol, i had this on my 9800XT. I frazzled some of the memory and the card couldnt handle any heat at all and would produce those screens of lines.
Thats seriously not good. And this is happening at stock now?
Time for another GFX card id say.

sajtion · 29 Apr 2006 at 16:23

yeah it is kind of funny

this card has been a nightmere from the start. i will never buy powercolor graphics card again. £200 pounds wasted. which nvidia card is sort of equivalent of radeon x850 xt agp and where to buy from?

iraiguana · 29 Apr 2006 at 17:38

get either the 6800 gs or ultra if u can find it second hand, otherwise look at the 7800 GS if u have the money to burn as these are top agp cards available. (and yes i know the 7900 GS has appeared but only like 1.5k of them made so not likely to get hold of any).