artifact question

[Mister Natural]

I think my EVGA 7900GT is finally starting to die but need some feedback. I noticed small dots starting to appear on screen in games. I was playing HL2 Episode one and was beginning to notice a lot of them, so I disabled AA and AF and it improved the problem, but still existed somewhat.
I actually re-loaded glquake and been playing that now and I noticed a few spots showing up on screen. The thing is they are always in the same place on screen. I thought they were dead pixels on my flat panel at first until I exited the game and saw the screen is fine when I'm not playing games.

So is this an artifact issue? This card is almost a year old, I bought it last March. Any advice dealing with EVGA is appreciated. Never oc'ed.

 

[leSLIe]

the artifacts are usually connected to Overclocking. Try to underclock your GPU, play some games and see if the artifacts are still there, if they aren't, then underclock your Memory, remember be careful doing so, just a few mhz at a time. When u have successfully underclock your vid card and u still have those problems in all games, u can say that your card is busted, go RMA

 

[digital_exhaust]

the artifacts are usually connected to Overclocking.

Did you read his entire post??

Never oc'ed.

Sounds like your card might be artifacting, which could be caused by heat. First thing I would do is make sure that your card and fan are clean, which I'm sure you've already done. You might post some screens and let us have a look...

 

[sumofatguy]

edit: ^^ what he said. Sounds like overheating possibly, so clean out the heatsink and try with the side of your case off

 

[xnikx]

i wouldnt think a card would die within a year, correct me if im wrong.
check your temps using ati tool or w/e and post them here.

 

[quadnad]

all else fails, evga has excellent RMA support, and the lifetime warranty isn't running out anytime soon.