Video card artifacts

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DaMaDo

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I have a Mac Pro with an X1900XT and I put an Accelero X2 on it which made the GPU run 10 degrees cooler (I installed the RAM pads just fine). I was able to play WoW and EQ2 just fine for many months.

I stopped playing 3D games for a couple of months and when I reactivated WoW to meet a friend in game I got artifacts after about 5 minutes which increasingly got much worse. So I reinstalled the stock cooler and I nothing has changed. I tried upgrading to the latest driver and also tried other 3D games and after a few mins or so I get the artifacting again. With is comming after a few mins of playing it sounds like a heat problem. The card is clocked down to the minimum windows lets me which is somewhere in the 500s for both mem and clock.

Any ideas why this is happening? It doesn't make sense to me.

oh and it happens in OSX running WoW too, not just windows.
 
DaMaDo said:
I have a Mac Pro with an X1900XT and I put an Accelero X2 on it which made the GPU run 10 degrees cooler (I installed the RAM pads just fine). I was able to play WoW and EQ2 just fine for many months.

I stopped playing 3D games for a couple of months and when I reactivated WoW to meet a friend in game I got artifacts after about 5 minutes which increasingly got much worse. So I reinstalled the stock cooler and I nothing has changed. I tried upgrading to the latest driver and also tried other 3D games and after a few mins or so I get the artifacting again. With is comming after a few mins of playing it sounds like a heat problem. The card is clocked down to the minimum windows lets me which is somewhere in the 500s for both mem and clock.

Any ideas why this is happening? It doesn't make sense to me.

oh and it happens in OSX running WoW too, not just windows.
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You might have fried your GPU somewhere inbetween those few months you didn't play... Most likely a RAM issue.

Is your system still under warranty or Applecare? That'd be the kind of thing they would replace for you (dont tell them you switched the HSF obviously).
 
Ok, I'll try to work with them. Sucks though because I honestly have no idea how it happened so I'm scared that it would happen again =/
 
DaMaDo said:
Ok, I'll try to work with them. Sucks though because I honestly have no idea how it happened so I'm scared that it would happen again =/
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It happens... My 6800 Ultra DDL did the same thing a while back, Apple replaced it flat out.

Course, I didn't change the HSF, so you'll have to leave that part out... but since it's not like a PC GPU (where you can just go BUY a new one if you screw it up) you'll have to make due.
 
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