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What 3DMarks are you running?
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silent-circuit
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Unstable OC? Even though I see you have watercooling, however I am not familiar with OCing E6300's. Sorry bro.
3Ghz shouldn't be a problem with that chip, especially on water, but OCing is /always/ luck of the draw, so maybe. Doubtful.
OP: back it down to stock anyway, and install RivaTuner to drop the clocks on the 8800 GTS back down to stock as well. If it runs fine then, OC the card back to what it should be running, try again. If it works then, you isolated your CPU as the problem. What vcore are you running?
MrWizard6600
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Yeah, I vote that its an unstable VGA OC.
put er back to stock, see if she goes. I've seen BFG do it once before. Send it back and they'll give you a brand spankin new one.
put er back to stock, see if she goes. I've seen BFG do it once before. Send it back and they'll give you a brand spankin new one.
BFG OC'ing there cards to unstable clocks? Never heard that happening, all my previous factory OC'd cards worked great. Good luck OP!Yeah, I vote that its an unstable VGA OC.
put er back to stock, see if she goes. I've seen BFG do it once before. Send it back and they'll give you a brand spankin new one.
silent-circuit
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BFG OC'ing there cards to unstable clocks? Never heard that happening, all my previous factory OC'd cards worked great. Good luck OP!
They're all doing it on occasion, now... BFG, XFX, and EVGA even. MSI, however, is by /far/ the worst based on what I've seen here. They seem to just flash the cards and package them, little to no stability testing, and zero concern about crazy high (80C idle 90C+ load) temps. I guess many of the distribution partners are just getting greedy with the binning on the GTS/GTX, trying to get a little more cash for OC'd versions over stock clocked versions and sending out parts that sometimes aren't capable of running 'at spec' as a result..
when you say water cooled, what are you running? It better not be some thermaltake tidewater or some water in a box kit. In that case you'd be better with a high end air cooler. Are you able to run orthos stable for a few hours? What are your temps like for both cpu/gpu?
I opted for a BFG OC card because I'd read quite a few threads on BFG OC2 cards getting artifacts at their stock (overclocked) speed. I'd start there if I were you, downclock the video card by a fair bit and if the problems stop then you need to RMA it.