x850xt Problems (part 2)

[MrHood22]

I posted on here about a week ago about problems I have with my x850xt. I have some distored images and stuff like that. Red/Green dotted lines across my screen. It's my GPU because when I switched between a 7600GT and an 8600GT I don't have any problems.

Alot of the replies said to clean it very good.

I took it apart and used rubbing alcohol to get off the thermal paste and I then put on some AS5. I also took a Q-Tip with rubbing alcohol on it and put it in between the fan fins and cleaned them out. I put it in and I still have the same issues. ATI Tool says it runs at about 40-45c.

I still have the same problems, does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Arnge]

yeah

may be the memory is fried.

that is kinda of an old card you know. RMA

 

[MrHood22]

Well i'm in the phase of moving to a 8800.

I sold my 7600GT KO for $80, sometime this month i'm going to RMA my 8600GT OC back to newegg for $110, then i'm going to get an 8800GT but I might just use my x850xt after I RMA my 8600GT and wait until the prices die on the 8800GT. They're selling the one Evga for $210 yet on the evga site they're selling the same card for $280ish I think.

The one thing I don't get is the card works fine in 90% of my games and sometimes the lines are there and sometimes they aren.t

 

[MrHood22]

Is there anyway I could put my x850xt in another pci slot while still having my 8600 in the other PCI slot and then just switch the Monitor cable from one GPU to the other without having the hassle of shutting it down, turning it over, unscrewing it, take it out, and putting the other one in and then repeating the process.

 

[vogar34]

Mixing an ATI card and an Nvidia card is never a good option because of driver conflicts. That and you have to have two PCIE x16 slots, which it sounds like you do. Anyways the answer is more pointing towards no so your just going to have to wait or figure something else out.