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560ti Artifacting, not sure it's the card?

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SniperSlap

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Hey everyone, looking for some advice!

I picked up a 560ti and have largely been very happy with it. One strange issue however is that I've been experiencing intermittent artifacting with it. It comes up even in a game as lightweight as League of Legends. Just long triangles shooting off of models. Goes away on a task-out-task-in.
The card can be fine for a day or two, but then I'll run the EVGA scanner or furmark, and the artifacting will be back. Often in exactly the same way.

I'm running on an ASUS P8P67. I've had two other video cards in the board with no issues (Radeon 5670 and GeForce 7600GT).

I took the 560ti back to where I bought it to take advantage of their 30 day exchange, but in their testing, they weren't able to regenerate the error. They even used the same power supply model as me.
I guess my concern is that I don't want to be stuck with a bad card that will degrade over time, long after my warranty. But I also don't want to assume it's the card that's bad because it's a visual manifestation.

Any advice in tracking down other sources of artifacting? Totally at a loss here...
 
thilanliyan said:
Are you using the latest drivers? Does it happen in newer games as well?

Did the store try the EVGA scanner or furmark?
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Yes to latest drivers. I've tried newer demos. Because the issue is intermittent, it's hard to say. I used the 3DMark '11 demo without issue.

Store is primarily using furmark it would seem. They can't get EVGA scanner 'cause they don't want to register a card. Although EVGA scanner on my system showed errors a plenty. But again, intermittently.

The card will be flawless for a period of time, and then boom, will just start showing errors. I reboot, all is well for a bit again until it rears it's head.

So strange!
 
SniperSlap said:
The card will be flawless for a period of time, and then boom, will just start showing errors. I reboot, all is well for a bit again until it rears it's head.

So strange!
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Sound like it may be overheating. How are the temps on the card? Everytime you reboot the entire system shuts down and cools the case down. Putting the card in another machine, as you mentioned, has it working fine so it very well could be lack of airflow in your case.
 
HendrixFan said:
Sound like it may be overheating. How are the temps on the card? Everytime you reboot the entire system shuts down and cools the case down. Putting the card in another machine, as you mentioned, has it working fine so it very well could be lack of airflow in your case.
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Airflow is not an issue. Especially considering the card barely works up a sweat in League of Legends...
 
- Download and install Driver Sweeper from Guru3D
- Go into control panel and uninstall the Nvidia Display Driver
- Restart in Safe Mode (press F8 at startup)
- Run Driver Sweeper and set it to clean anything from ATI and Nvidia
- Restart in normal mode, download and install latest drivers from Nvidia

That should be your first step. If that doesn't work, it's time to check temperatures on your card using a program like GPU-Z, or voltages on your power supply using a digital multi-meter (NOT software readings).
 
CurseTheSky said:
- Download and install Driver Sweeper from Guru3D
- Go into control panel and uninstall the Nvidia Display Driver
- Restart in Safe Mode (press F8 at startup)
- Run Driver Sweeper and set it to clean anything from ATI and Nvidia
- Restart in normal mode, download and install latest drivers from Nvidia

That should be your first step. If that doesn't work, it's time to check temperatures on your card using a program like GPU-Z, or voltages on your power supply using a digital multi-meter (NOT software readings).
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I have a multimeter, I should be able to do that if it gets to that.

One thing.. My PSU is the Antec EarthWatts 500W. It has a double 6pin PCI-E connector on it. Would that be an issue at all? The store is using the exact same PSU model. So unless my PSU is defective, it just doesn't seem like the source of the problem.

The driver sweep does sound like a good idea however. I wonder if the 7600GT installation might be affecting the 560ti? Is that somehow a possibility?
 
SniperSlap said:
I have a multimeter, I should be able to do that if it gets to that.

One thing.. My PSU is the Antec EarthWatts 500W. It has a double 6pin PCI-E connector on it. Would that be an issue at all? The store is using the exact same PSU model. So unless my PSU is defective, it just doesn't seem like the source of the problem.

The driver sweep does sound like a good idea however. I wonder if the 7600GT installation might be affecting the 560ti? Is that somehow a possibility?
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PSUs can go "bad" without being completely bad. If voltage is unstable, if there's lots of ripple, or of heat is causing problems in the PSU, it can cause issues with your graphics card. For a very basic test, carefully take a spare molex connector on your PSU and plug the black lead from the DMM into a black wire hole and the red lead into the yellow wire hole. The voltage should read around 12V, with under 11.5V or over 12.5V being worrisome. Test it at idle and again under full load.

Driver Sweeper is mainly to eliminate remnants of old driver installations or drivers from a rival vendor. Installing an ATI card, then doing a regular uninstall of a drive and finally installing Nvidia drivers can cause issues. Any time you switch from ATI to Nvidia or vice-versa, it's a good idea to do the steps I listed before.
 
i have used alot of ATI cards, cronic video card updater (curse you ATI and NV!!!! and your 3 month life cycle). I have had a 9800, XT850, a 4870 and recentlly a 5870 all do the same EXACT thing, triangles shooting off all over..

I would suggest as many have, testing a new PSU if that option is open. My Xt850 has a bad CAP on the power in, unfortnalty more damage was done before I replaced the cap. The 4870 was bad (exactly a a year and 2 weeks from purchase date..year warrenty 🙁 ) and my 5870 was a RMA (new one is running awsome! in SLI...errr crossfire!)

watch your card close for sparklies ( they look like tiny gaps in 3D objects to me, like a pixel is missing)... all of mine did it shortly before the trangle stuff.. I followed all the paths, differnt PSU, reseating heatsinks, bigger heatsinks...etc.. all mine where actual card problems.

And if you see ATI plaid send the card in...

the 4870 lasted a few months with an Underclock... you might try underclocking it to see if it changes anything.

I like my ATI cards, great bang for the buck, but I cant say I have had great luck with them...
 
two possibilities jump in mind:
1. your case/card is not cooled well, can you get a temp reading using furmark?
2. the PSU is too weak, what's your other components? although the antec 500W which I got one can draw about 625W at the wall. It should be enough, still it's a possibility.
 
Another quick question... Is there any way to reliably test all of my video memory? If the defect is found in the higher regions of my memory, is it not possible that the error would only manifest when the card is pushed to use those regions?
 
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