7900GT KO problem

ThatsAgood1jay

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my EVGA 7900GT KO is acting weird. To start off, i have been noticing some strange 'Stuck' pixels all over my screen. Even on start up, when the motherboard flash screen appears i see black and blue dots all over the screen. And in windows as well, i will see just wierd clusters of stuck pixels. I know this could be a monitor problem.

Also, it is overheating like crazy. I have put arctic silver five on the original heatsink. And it was still over heating. Alright, so i broke down and bought a Zalman VF700 cooling unit and put it on yesterday. but after i did, my computer wouldent start, it would just sit there and spit out error codes. So i took off the new cooler, and put the old back on. And amazingly, the computer works now. Why would a cooling unit make such a huge difference in my system?
 
Same problem with my 7900GT. I had to RMA is twice. My second RMA resulted in getting 8800 GTS, so I was happy to get out of the 7900 series :p.
 
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