Artifacting

[MirageMobile]

What can i do about artifacting?
HIS x1950 Pro AGP
My card is at 46 C when artifacts begin on 3D application and all i know what to do is reboot and hope they don't pop right back up. Unfortunately, they appear almost immediately after a 3D application is launched. Surely 46 C is not a hot running card, or is it?

I have the new 7.5 CCC drivers but the problems have existed soon after I installed the card. Yesterday I turn down my clock speeds using ATI Tool and I am not sure if it helped or not. Artifacts did not appear after the turn down, but I have played for over 10 hours straight with the stock clock and never had a problem. It seems to be more hit or miss.

Will I need to contact HIS and talk to them? I have never RMA'ed and wondering if that would be a necessary step or what? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Scyles]

My X1900XTX started artifacting. I opened my case door and have a house fan blowing on it. This fixed most of my problems, but I still get occasional artifacts. I think I need to RMA my card, but its over a year old so I don't know if its out of warranty. It is "Built by ATI", which I believe means built by Sapphire.

 

[DrDoU]

i have noticed that a lot of the newer cards are sensative to the power supply may want to see how many amps are running on the 12v rail i think this is correct not for sure. i don't think 45c is to hot.

 

[Scyles]

I have had a suspicion that my problem could be PSU related, but since the fan helped things out I sort of ditched that. I'm using a several year old Antec 480W that I had to buy a cheap PCI-E power pin convertor for.

 

[MirageMobile]

how would i go about checking the amount of amperes being produced on that rail? I'm suing an Antec TP-II 480w i believe.