videocard pro's .. help me

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Firebomb

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I'm looking for more insight I need help from someone that knows more then me on the subject.

I have a "just bought" 7900gt and during some games I get errors like artifacts if you will. its not overclocked and its a single card setup. not the double slot cards with big coolers.

I was wondering after changing my drivers and updates if it could be in fact overheating so I loaded ati tool, 3dmark and riva tuner to try to figure something out... well it seems to idle at 55C and while playing games it gets around 88C is this to hot? its a stock cooler....

so I ran ATI tool for the artifact checker and it ran fine for a while until the temp got to 81c then it started beeping telling me it had errors and started over, so I hooked up a house fan to blow in the case now its running at 67c and so far going strong without errors for 23 minutes as of this writing


info please,
 
rivatuner should have that option as far as i know since i adjusted my fan speed of my 7800gt. do you have the most up to date riva tuner?
 
onedestinazn2 said:
rivatuner should have that option as far as i know since i adjusted my fan speed of my 7800gt. do you have the most up to date riva tuner?
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yeah I do. but it says it's not tested with my drivers and that it might not work all the way. most of the things are greyed out. I am useing the extreme G drivers just released. if not using them what drivers you recomened
 
Firebomb said:
yeah I do. but it says it's not tested with my drivers and that it might not work all the way. most of the things are greyed out. I am useing the extreme G drivers just released. if not using them what drivers you recomened
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Extreme G drivers? What? Go to the nvidia site and get the stock drivers. Are we overclocking the card by chance? Artifacts are caused by overheated and/or overclocked GPU's.
 
Mega666 said:
Extreme G drivers? What? Go to the nvidia site and get the stock drivers. Are we overclocking the card by chance? Artifacts are caused by overheated and/or overclocked GPU's.
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No i never overclock, I have always had bad luck with stock drivers, I had the new ones from nvidia and I got black squares in bioshock so I got extreme G and was all good.
 
So what kind of system are we dealing with that the stock nv drivers do not work?
 
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