Artifacts hurt the card?

[tigersty1e]

I "successfully" overclocked my core from 621 to 688 and had no problems in my 3dmark06 runs. I could've gone further as 3dmark showed no signs of problems.

But I decided to run some real world tets (aka games) anyway because I was getting antsy.

There is some slight artifacting in medieval 2 that only shows up on the battlefield in the battle map. Not anywhere else. I can live with it because I can hardly notice it.

Are this signs that my card is getting damaged? Will it get worse as time progresses?

 

[lavaheadache]

Ask yourself this..... Would you risk killing your card for less than 5% performance increase....? nah, didn't think so. turn them clocks down a little bit , eh

 

[Dudewithoutapet]

I way I see it, if its artifacting, its is already getting hurt or hurt already.

 

[JBT]

I would turn it down to 675 or 670 and try that. 18 mhz could be the difference between the artifacts and not, as well as overheating your GPU.

 

[taltamir]

artifacting = computational errors due to extreme overheating or electron leakage... both of them are very severe... you are literally burning your card by running it with artifacts.