Whats wrong with my graphics card?

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Mao_Zedong

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i just recently got a X850 PRO AGP version for my PC and everything ran great up till about a few days ago where i started getting weird glitches i never got before things like the geometry in games getting stretched into a cone or textures getting messed up i got some screenshots of it in my xfire profile right here http://www.xfire.com/profile/superdude2turbo
most of these are from BF 2 but Ive gotten it in other games too even changed around some settings in my catalyst control panel

Ive also reinstalled the drivers and my temp on my GPU is 35C when not playing a game and only gets to about 70 C when playing a high end game so i don't think its getting too hot or anything

my specs are shown in my xfire profile too
 
One thing you didn`t mention in your specs was what power supply do you have?

Also what video card were you running before with the rig?

If your P.S. is sufficient or at least let`s say around an Antec 430 Watt specs which it probably isn`t, and your running with a Dell proprietary P.S., then that could be your problem.

Also even though your GPU temps appear to be o.k. one of the memory chips on the new card could be faulty.

Regards, Silverfox1
 
its a 460 watt power supply and i was running a 256 MB 9800 XT before had to replace it though as the heatsink was messed up and it would heat up to like 104 C from just running windows :/
 
down clock your memory and see if problem goes away ..if so , then you have bad memory on that card and time to rma it.
:(

 
Are your settings to high? the X850Pro can probably only do texture and shadows high in bf2 evey thing esle medium and maybe AA 2x. Also did you reformat when you got the new card or maybe unistall old drviers and install new?
 
the settings aren't too high as im running it at 60+ and also i did get rid of the old drivers but i can always try out the omega drivers to see if that helps before i do anything drastic
 
Although your PSU is 460W, what kind is it? Brand & model? I've seen too many mysterious problems that popped out of no-where come back to faulty power supplies.
 
This certainly looks like it's a Vram problem... PSU's can do funny things, but not this extreme...
 
RMA the card then. That's what I am doing... my PSU and every other components are up to the task, so PSU and w/e is out of the picture. It's a bad card!
 
i hope the new one im getting from them doesn't screw up like this as i can't think of an nvidia equivalent to this card :(
 
well, slim chance you will get a defective one again... unlike my 7900GT which has a wide range of defective cards so I fear I might get a crap one again :)
 
same thing happens with my gw golden sample 6800GT. at stock speeds 350/500 it has the same symptoms like you have, but only after a while when it burns at around 70°C.

just that sometimes i get a blank screen while playing. the menus and everything else works ok, but 3D is gone.

and the "enhanced" setting for 400/600 works for like 5 seconds and then everything freezes (in a 3D game) although I did manage to run oblivion for a few hours when forcing a delta 80mm fan ~5000rpm directly to the card.

unfortunately my warranty expired (only one year in my country; contacted gainward but they are not too cooperative).

so, it just might not be that the card is faulty but the cooling is poor.
 
well my 9800 XT had the same temps on it for about 2-3 years until it went bad recently (fan got messed up and didn't feel like getting a new one so i got a better graphics card instead :))
 
ok i just got ARTIFACTING WHILE PLAYING A SNES EMU

GEE I DIDN'T KNOW AN X850 PRO COULD'NT HANDLE DONKEY KONG COUNTRY
 
same here, my system crashed while playing FEAR a few hours ago, then it artifacted and started to blink on and off since my card is jacked haha.
 
Yeah a full 32bits too :).

Can you not RMA the bastard? I've heard bad things about these cards...
 
Just RMA the card. There's always a chance of getting a card with an issue.

Back in 2002/2003 I paid $500 for a GeForce 5900 Ultra and it had all sorts of issues. I RMA'd it a few times, but did end up with a working card.
 
ya im gonna rma it today now i won't have a computer for awhile :/ oh well at least i can browse the Internet at school.
 
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