Artifacting

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SoSo09

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I had my computer idling WoW for about an hour. I came back and it was artifacted, but not frozen. Desktop was the same. Restarted and still the same thing. Tried using a different monitor and cable, same thing. BIOS is also a bit artifacted. Tried swapping RAM slots and, yep, you guessed it, same thing.

ATM, the RAM is actually underclocked and running stock voltage. My videocard GPU has been overclocked for a while now and it has been stable and cool at ~30c idle. The memory doesn't go very far so it is default.

I took 2 pictures, one at 32-bit and one at 16-bit.

I'm hoping nothing is shot :(
 
yeah,you may want to swap monitors.maybe that could be the problem.that don't work,you hosed it.

we had a computer at work the screen would start to break-up.they swapped out the monitor and no problems after that.
 
Unless I'm missing something, neither of those screenshots show any artifacting that I've ever seen.
 
Already tried a diff monitor, maybe you missed it in my first post.

I'm on my second comp right now and I can clearly see the corruption in the 32-bit picture, the 16-bit picture is almost un-noticable, but you can see it if you look at the white hard enough.
 
Seems I've found my problem :(

When I tried re-seating my videocard, i felt something sort of wet and gooey on the top of it. Took it out and found out my water pump had been leaking a little. The liquid dripped all the way down my hose and found its way to the videocard, where a stash of gooey green liquid was sitting between every nick and cranny in a 2-inch radius.
:mad:

So over 45 minutes, I cleaned it up with some q-tips, blow-dried it, and repeated. I guess that did more harm than help. Damn... Atleast that adds one more reason for my father to upgrade my computer. :rolleyes:

R.I.P. 9600XT.
 
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