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

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

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??

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?