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My ATi Radeon 4890 1GB was cheap as, I was expecting to have to say up for a few months for an Nvidia but I couldn't pass on the price, the fans a bit loud when the computer starts but after that its easily bearable for me, as the saying goes beggars can't be choosers, as for nvidia, 9600GT is the previous generation and is suppose to be a step up from 8600GT, it rivals the 8800GT from what I remember so wouldn't think it would be that great, 250 would probably be the better investment, but this is my first gfx card with 1gb ram, my 8800GT 512mb did good in its lifetime.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400 Black Edition (3.2GHz)
Mobo: ASUS M3N78-VM
RAM: OCZ Gold DDR2-1066 2x2GB
GFX: XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Audio: VT1708B (Integrated)
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W
OS: Windows 7 (x64)
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Aug 2009 02:27 Post subject: |
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Thanks
but could it be that the motherboard is touching the case? I mean it's been incredibly hot in there maybe those plastic rings have melted?
the problem have occurred even while not in game so maybe there's a possibility that it's not the GPU after all?
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CaptainCox
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Location: A Swede in Germany (FaM)
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Aug 2009 13:25 Post subject: |
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I had something similar some month back. Turned out to be faulty RAM modules. I only found out by running "Memtest86" from a boot disc
DL LINK
get the "ISO image for creating bootable CD (Windows - zip)"
burn the image on a CD or DVD and set your DVDROM as 1st boot device in BIOS.
Fire up the PC with the Memtest disc and it should start checking your RAM. It will take a while, but let it run at least one complete cycle. If you get errors that is most likely your problem.
Can at least not hurt running memtest, then you can at least exclude the RAM for sure.
The stress tests that you ran from inside windows might not show the errors like Memtest86 does.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Aug 2009 14:13 Post subject: |
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Thanks Cap, I got that so if the errors pop up is it gonna fix it or am I gonna have to buy another ram stick?
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Aug 2009 14:19 Post subject: |
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You need new RAM I am afraid. But most likely it's only one stick. The problem later is to find out witch one. I took mine out (4x2GB) one at a time, fired up a game (in my case was Empire Total War...was driving me crazy). Anyway, when the freeze/sound loop and what have you stopped (basically I could not play longer then 10-15 min before freeze) I assumed that I got it. Since then I am running everything without any problem. Been to lazy to buy a new one, will do at some point but.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Aug 2009 02:21 Post subject: |
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First get rid of the heat. Then stress test.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Aug 2009 05:00 Post subject: |
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The problem seems to have been gone on its own ever since I plugged a new 28" monitor on, but the audio stutters if the CPU is used, and it does so quite a lot on high resolution, if I put firefox on fullscreen and I scroll up and down CPU usage increases dramatically and sound starts stuttering/skipping like fuck.
oh and the case is opened with a house fan next to it
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Aug 2009 15:48 Post subject: |
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what the fuck guys I don't get turn offs and sound loops anymore but I get severe lag and sound crackling in some games for some reason, seems to be CPU overload? anyone got any idea what might be causing this? overheating perhaps?
I notice some high CPU usage (55% sometimes more) for just scrolling a page in firefox at 1920x1080p sound crackling too if I'm running some music
but when I put it on window mode and make it smaller it doesn't lag or crackle (firefox)
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Aug 2009 13:41 Post subject: |
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Any ideas why my PC performs worse than it used to?
I monitored temps while playing etc they're not above average and it's in no way overheating D:
could it be that my PC just can't handle 1920x1080 resolution?
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Aug 2009 14:28 Post subject: |
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You should be handling that res size fine,, the only time I personally have seen odd mouse scrolling issues with say a browser and weird noises and laggy scrolling or so foth is when my gfx card was trying to tell me its suffering somewhere..
It eventually died.... If you have definately done the driver run through and are sure you installed fresh gfx drivers and monitor drivers if there is any for it, tested your ram and thats ok, then you will have to stress test your cpu if not already along with only way to be real sure is use another monitor you know to be working fine, and another gfx card you know to be working fine.. That is if all your testing turns up with nothing obviously wrong with said hardware...
Its a pain in the ass when one cant put the finger on an issue, but good luck and dont give up..
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