Recent content by consumed343

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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    The Antec 380w is 3 months old, basically brand new. It's the Earthwatts 80 PLUS, has 2x +12V rails with 17A on each rail.
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    System crashed again... I've been running my friends 5570 for 2 weeks without issude, going through HL2 and other games. No issues, and same OS install/380w pus that caused artifacts, bsod's with the 4890, *but the 4890 turned out to be OK. I picked up a 6850 yesterday, and installed it on...
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    An update. Someone mentioned that the OS "might" be the problem and to install Win 7 fresh, and so with a spare HD I did just that. After installing Win 7 with the 4890 installed, I tossed in the 10.10 drivers and enabled Areo and whola! no artifacts... I then installed Futuremark and it too...
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    I can't see any physical damage but then it's probably invisible. I'm going to take the card to a store later and get it tested.
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    Problem has occured with drivers 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10.
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    With the 4890 installed, during bootup, safe-mode, basically as long as no 3d is being used, it runs fine. You flip the 3d switch, use areo and it's a show of artifacts, bsod's and reboots. What puzzles me is that it's doing this at Idle on the desktop... I can't imagine that the Areo...
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    So using the onbaord 4200, I fired up Prime 95 using the PSU/heat test and let it go for 15-20 minutes, with no issues. Also before I bring it anywhere tomorrow, I thought I'd give the 4890 one more try but it failed instantly. I tossed in the 4890 and made sure the onboard 4200 was off to...
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    Aritfacts, BSOD's, Reboots - Video card or PSU?

    I'm looking for some help on a recent problem, trying to determine if it could be related to PSU or Video card. Last week I went to use my rig (w/4890) and noticed Win 7 Areo was turned off, so I flipped it back on. Within moments I was getting artifacts, and when I went to launch BF2-BC the...