HD 4890 artifacts/distortion

[Offbeat]

Just recieved this card as a christmas gift, installed it, installed the drivers. Not really sure what is going on with it, I'm getting distortion and artifacts in world of warcraft.

Not sure how to tell the temps that I am getting.

 

[DrDoU]

is this the only program you are having trouble with?

 

[Offbeat]

well this is the only game i really play, and it was fine before i installed

 

[Offbeat]

it's pretty hot to the touch

 

[Snowknight26]

That's generally normal. Screenshot of said artifacting? OCing? Other system specs?

 

[Offbeat]

I just switched pci-e slots, ill post screens if it happens again. im waiting for something to go wrong no overclocking (it's a dell xps), q6600 cpu, 4 GB ram

 

[ellover009]

I don't own an ATI card but my friend does, if you went from an NV card to an ATI make sure you use a special program to really wipe the old gpu drivers, and make sure you have the newest microsoft.net frameworks. Anyways good luck with your new card maybe it just didn't like that pci slot.

 

[Offbeat]

it started acting up again, here is a screen shot. It changed window colors as you can see on ventrilo. http://img199.imageshack.us/i/artifacts.png/

 

[Offbeat]

I did go from a 8800GT to this ATI card

 

[Snowknight26]

Try running something like ATI Tray Tools' Artifact Tester and see how many artifacts you get.

 

[Offbeat]

i downloaded it, but i dont see artifact tester anywhere

 

[Offbeat]

wow this sucks, I don't know what else to do but send it back :\

 

[Offbeat]

not sure what this means

 

[Offbeat]

http://img51.imageshack.us/i/artifacts2.png/

 

[Offbeat]

anyone have any suggesions before i send it back?

 

[Offbeat]

going to send it back to newegg for a replacement, hopefully I'm not let down again

 

[Dangman]

going to send it back to newegg for a replacement, hopefully I'm not let down again

Wait, what PSU does your Dell XPS have?

 

[Offbeat]

not sure the the brand, I just know that it's a 750