Hey fellas.
I'm having the strangest issues with my graphics card. It seems to overheat to extremely high temps without even taxing my pc. Just running a game can take it from 50c to 75+ until it decides to crash to the desktop. Before the crash occurs, i get polygons that seem to "stick" to where my mouse pointer is stretching all over the screen and the game appears to flicker into an extremely high contrast setting. It may happen a few times, but shortly there after I get extreme performance slowdowns eventually causing a ctd. Roughly, 10-20 minutes into playing. And it doesn't just stop at games. Other software that displays 3d such as the 3d app TSRWorkshop and the 3dplanesoft koifish screensaver. My idle temps are 50-55c and I'm using NvTemplogger to measure them.
Now, before this card, I had an hd3850 and it worked just fine with no problems so I don't suspect that it's the pc itself thought it could be. It's been like this more or less for the 2 months that I've had the 8600 installed and I don't know what else I can do. I've tried updating drivers, re-seating my card, checking that the heatsink and fan are secure on the card, and I've even used my desktop fan with the 1 side of the case taken off, but I'm still getting extremely high temperatures.
Is it time to scrap this or does it seem like this card can be fixed somehow? The exact model of the card is an Nvidia Geforce 8600GT with no sign of an aftermarket branding either on the card itself or from the device manager.
I'm having the strangest issues with my graphics card. It seems to overheat to extremely high temps without even taxing my pc. Just running a game can take it from 50c to 75+ until it decides to crash to the desktop. Before the crash occurs, i get polygons that seem to "stick" to where my mouse pointer is stretching all over the screen and the game appears to flicker into an extremely high contrast setting. It may happen a few times, but shortly there after I get extreme performance slowdowns eventually causing a ctd. Roughly, 10-20 minutes into playing. And it doesn't just stop at games. Other software that displays 3d such as the 3d app TSRWorkshop and the 3dplanesoft koifish screensaver. My idle temps are 50-55c and I'm using NvTemplogger to measure them.
Now, before this card, I had an hd3850 and it worked just fine with no problems so I don't suspect that it's the pc itself thought it could be. It's been like this more or less for the 2 months that I've had the 8600 installed and I don't know what else I can do. I've tried updating drivers, re-seating my card, checking that the heatsink and fan are secure on the card, and I've even used my desktop fan with the 1 side of the case taken off, but I'm still getting extremely high temperatures.
Is it time to scrap this or does it seem like this card can be fixed somehow? The exact model of the card is an Nvidia Geforce 8600GT with no sign of an aftermarket branding either on the card itself or from the device manager.
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