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Artifacts?

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Aeturnus

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So heres the deal, recently I started getting alot of artifacts in games with my 9800pro AIW, I took it out so i can rma and put my nvidia 5200 in, it's also getting artifacts, I am not overclocked as of right now, I have never overclocked the nvidia card, only the 9800pro AIW which would underclock itself in ati tool due to over heating, is it possible that some how my agp voltage is upped?

I'm on a p4 3.0
asus p4c800-e
 
Aeturnus said:
the 9800pro AIW which would underclock itself in ati tool due to over heating, is
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Sounds like you have just stated your problem there. Open the side of your case and point a fan in there and see if they go away. If they do then you have an air flow problem.
 
couldn't be, water cooled pc, one fan on the side panel blowing right on the video card, 2 intake, 2 exhuast
 
maybe the waterblock isnt on right, double check that it is laying perfectly flat on the GPU and that it is secure, also make sure there is some fresh thermal paste on the GPU every time you remove the water block
 
that's beside the point :/


it will be water cooled when i get a new pump and waterblock for it
 
If you got another puter to try the cards in I would do that first.

Baring that, strip the system out, yank the motherboard and set it up on a box with just the vid card, ram, and cpu installed and just the motherboard power switch on it, see what happens when its out of the case.
 
well, i know it isn't overheating, my case is at 30c, if that's what you meant by taking the motherboard out, if you were getting at something else please specify
 
yeah, basicly just wanted you to try testing it out of the case, see if maybe theres a problem with either heat or with a possible short circuit somewhere.

If it's still doing it out of the case, then youv'e eliminated one more posiblity, the rest of the posibilites are ram, cpu, motherboard and power supply.

Basicly its just parts swapping to figure out whats going on, sience its happening on two cards you've already eliminated the card as the problem.
 
Well, the water block i'm using was sold to me with a missing not, and one of the bolts touch the back of the case, coudl that be it?
 
I think the core on that card is just bad, I ONLY get white dots in cstrike in corners of the map with the nvidia card, could be a big, i got them all over the screen with my 9800pro in any game
 
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