Problem with XFX 8800GT

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Avengeance

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I recently purchased a 8800GT. It was running hot and the stock cooler was loud so I purchased the arctic cooling cooler with the fan to put on it. Well it comes with ramsinks to put on but I wasnt able to put them on since the tape that came on them didnt stick very well. I was told I didnt really need these though and the stock cooler looked like it insulated the ram more than anything. Anyways the problem I am having now is sometimes I will be playing a game and it will randomly low a lot of red lines on the screen and then lock up. This is after maybe 3 minutes or so of playing so I am guessing its a heat related issue. Is it true that I really dont need the ram sinks? BTW when my card is at idle it runs at 35c and I need to check it when it runs at load. Also I dont have any overclock on it.
 
Avengeance said:
I recently purchased a 8800GT. It was running hot and the stock cooler was loud so I purchased the arctic cooling cooler with the fan to put on it. Well it comes with ramsinks to put on but I wasnt able to put them on since the tape that came on them didnt stick very well. I was told I didnt really need these though and the stock cooler looked like it insulated the ram more than anything. Anyways the problem I am having now is sometimes I will be playing a game and it will randomly low a lot of red lines on the screen and then lock up. This is after maybe 3 minutes or so of playing so I am guessing its a heat related issue. Is it true that I really dont need the ram sinks? BTW when my card is at idle it runs at 35c and I need to check it when it runs at load. Also I dont have any overclock on it.
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It should run fine without them unless you are overclocking them. I have the xfx 8800gt and the S1 cooler. My case has a 120mm fan tha blows across the S1 and I took the slot covers off in front of the HS.
 
Well I am not really sure what kind of artifacting I am seeing. Is that core or ram artifacting?
 
I think it's ram, I get that sometimes when I try to push it to 1000Mhz, in games like GoW and CoD4. Google something like '8800GT red dots crash' and you're bound to find similar problems.
 
Red lines is in all probabilily ram artifacting. Core arfifacting will result in a clean picture but total freeze. Any graphical glitches are ram artifacts.
 
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