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ginge51
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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 00:50 Post subject: rmaed my card still knackered :(	Quick Quote Quote

i rmaed my gfx card and had it returned saying they benchmarked the gfx card and found no faults whatsoever just something to do with infinate looping whatever that is ? so ive been playing some games and noticed AGAIN that im getting lines in games and aftifacts so i stopped the game and loaded up ati tool to see if i still had artifacts with the card and what do you know im having artifacts heres proof http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?395f22aede.jpg this photo hear prooves of artifacts does it not? yet overclockers specialists say there was none but i did notice that in the picture in ati tools it says no errors found yet theres the yellow lines everywhere. some more screenies http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?19671a6daf.jpg http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?0068af7fa0.jpg yet they said theres nothing wrong with the card lol

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 01:08 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Lower your card's clock and memory speed by about 5-10% and test.

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 02:02 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

1)could be overheating, maybe they tested in open case or without case, that is if yours closed 2)not enough juice from your psu

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 02:14 Post subject:

ELIZ wrote:

1)could be overheating, maybe they tested in open case or without case, that is if yours closed
2)not enough juice from your psu

ive been on guru3d eliz and told them the amps etc of me cpu and they said its ok even though its a generic 1 Sad

ive just done some benchies and i used cpubench 2003 off guru3d and to my amasement and its not the only time this has happened my cpu got a worse score then a 2700 athlon ffs mines a dualcore 4400 amd cpu so im thinking after all these months of pissing about its my motherboard thats causing all my probs it was cheap after all only 32 pounds i think it wass 8 months ago its a dualsata2 motherboard i now need a benchmark that will run tests for my motherboard any1 know of any please?

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 03:11 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

try 3dmark 2k3 mother nature test, if u get white sparkles on the water and other abnormalities then it's your gfx, could be your mobo but i doubt that

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 03:16 Post subject:

ELIZ wrote:

try 3dmark 2k3 mother nature test, if u get white sparkles on the water and other abnormalities then it's your gfx, could be your mobo but i doubt that

this mobo is definatly holding my comp back from tests ive done how can a 2700 single core cpu beat a 4400x2 cpu ?

ill have to buy a decent 1 hopefully soon 939 s aint made ne more though Sad

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 03:22 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

@ ginge51 What is your memory configuration (I mean the dimms), I see you have 1.75 gigs ... maybe something faulty there ? Mixing old and new ones, are we ? Also try underclocking your card to see if it's graphics card related and maybe install the AMD dual core cpu drivers.

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Posted: Fri, 20th Apr 2007 18:29 Post subject:

VGAdeadcafe wrote:

@ ginge51

What is your memory configuration (I mean the dimms), I see you have 1.75 gigs ... maybe something faulty there ? Mixing old and new ones, are we ?

Also try underclocking your card to see if it's graphics card related and maybe install the AMD dual core cpu drivers.

i only use the 1.5 now m8 took the 256 out Smile

i havent a clue what the dimms are as there set to auto.

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Posted: Fri, 27th Apr 2007 12:35 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

did you solve it? only certain things will cause artifacts rather than crashes/bsod's. Good advice to look at your psu, even if it states it has enough amps on each rail, if it's a generic or basically crap psu (such as qtec) it may be PFC and share watts between the rails and is no good basically (could try disconnecting additional drives which aren't essential, dvd and extra hard disks etc). Some of them also state the peak wattage/amps and can be misleading. Also did you try underclocking your gfx and trying the artifact tester? this is the best/first thing for you to try in your process of elimination.. not feeling your quote in your sig tho, thatcher should be sent into the middle of the ocean somewhere and have a nuke shoved up her arse (OT soz).. oh and 1.5 gig is a bad amount if memory to run. Should stick to two sticks running at 1t unless your rig can cope with 4 sticks at 1t. But any other configuration would probably lose performance even with the extra ram because of the speed hit it takes..

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ginge51
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Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2007 18:28 Post subject:

suicid4l wrote:

did you solve it? only certain things will cause artifacts rather than crashes/bsod's. Good advice to look at your psu, even if it states it has enough amps on each rail, if it's a generic or basically crap psu (such as qtec) it may be PFC and share watts between the rails and is no good basically (could try disconnecting additional drives which aren't essential, dvd and extra hard disks etc). Some of them also state the peak wattage/amps and can be misleading. Also did you try underclocking your gfx and trying the artifact tester? this is the best/first thing for you to try in your process of elimination..

not feeling your quote in your sig tho, thatcher should be sent into the middle of the ocean somewhere and have a nuke shoved up her arse (OT soz)..

oh and 1.5 gig is a bad amount if memory to run. Should stick to two sticks running at 1t unless your rig can cope with 4 sticks at 1t. But any other configuration would probably lose performance even with the extra ram because of the speed hit it takes..

from what i can tell m8 its a motherboard problem.
i need a new mobo because i removed the 512 stick of ram from my mobo and mostly the artifacts clear up in games?
put it back in and there back.
its definatly this motherboard so ill be ordering a new 1 soon cheers for the replys ppl Smile

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