calmnothing
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I have a MSI 7950 Twin Frozr O/C and it has been running quite well for the past month. But earlier this week it started acting really weird. When I start up a game it will work like normaly then after a few seconds the screen will flash black and then immediately the FPS drops. So I checked MSI Afterburner and it's reporting that the card has dropped down to 300mhz core and 150mhz memory. If I continue to try playing a game the screen will artifact and the computer will turn off. The core temp of the graphics card on a COLD boot is 45c. It used to be 30c.
So something has happened to where it won't run faster than 2d clockspeeds and is hotter at idle. If I run sketchup with hardware acceleration on then it will spike up to its max speed then go down to 2d speeds and the fan will spin like crazy.
In the past few days I haven't done anything to change the hardware or installed any software. I have tried 5-6 different drivers, updating to the latest BIOS for the card, and over/underclocking the card. I even popped the card into a seperate computer and it is doing the same thing there. I put a good working graphics card in my computer and it works fine. So I believe at this point it is isolated to this 7950.
Any help would be appreciated, just trying to figure this out before I have to do an RMA.
So something has happened to where it won't run faster than 2d clockspeeds and is hotter at idle. If I run sketchup with hardware acceleration on then it will spike up to its max speed then go down to 2d speeds and the fan will spin like crazy.
In the past few days I haven't done anything to change the hardware or installed any software. I have tried 5-6 different drivers, updating to the latest BIOS for the card, and over/underclocking the card. I even popped the card into a seperate computer and it is doing the same thing there. I put a good working graphics card in my computer and it works fine. So I believe at this point it is isolated to this 7950.
Any help would be appreciated, just trying to figure this out before I have to do an RMA.
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