BFG 6800GT PROBLEMS!

[Cares]

My friend has a BFG GeForce 6800GT and he has problems playing WoW and HL2. There are some screenshots. Is this due to overheating of the videocard? He says he idles at 70ish and even hits 85s during activity. Is this a lot higher than normal? I remember reading about people having distortions with this card and getting too hot.

http://jeffreytomio.com/videocard/

 

[Heinrich]

That's definitely the video card - not sure if it's due to heat, but it's corruption from overclocking too high. If it's that way out of the box, do an RMA or return to store.

 

[Cares]

His card was left stock and not overclocked. His case has good airflow and plenty of fans cooling the ambience. I don't think its due to overclocking but he has had the card for about a 9 months now. Any other possibility?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: AlphaQ
My friend has a BFG GeForce 6800GT and he has problems playing WoW and HL2. There are some screenshots. Is this due to overheating of the videocard? He says he idles at 70ish and even hits 85s during activity. Is this a lot higher than normal? I remember reading about people having distortions with this card and getting too hot.

http://jeffreytomio.com/videocard/

70 is high for idle, but i wouldnt say 85 is too high for load...ive had my leadtek up to 83degrees no probs

but then again it idles at 55 and usually just about breaks 70 in most games

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: AlphaQ
His card was left stock and not overclocked. His case has good airflow and plenty of fans cooling the ambience. I don't think its due to overclocking but he has had the card for about a 9 months now. Any other possibility?

stil could be an over heat

you could always remove the heatsink, reapply some thermal juice and replace the heat sink nice and tight, some factory installations arent always that good. but then this may void your warrantee and doesnt guarrantee a solution to the problem

if i was you i wouldnt ask questions here, jus make use of the great BFG tech support and just RMA the card

 

[orangat]

The temperatures are no where near dangerous levels but they measure the core not the memory. Maybe the heatsink sitting on the memory chips got dislodged or knocked out of alignment. In any case, BFG's lifetime warranty must be put to use.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

you could always remove the heatsink,

and void the warranty!

Just contact the manufacturer. They offer lifetime warranty.

 

[rise]

yep, no reason to screw with a problem not of your making on a $350 card. just RMA it.

 

[peleejosh]

those temps are normal with the new drivers. But i would still rma the card.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

The temps aren't bad, but my guess is the Heatsink wasn't strapped down to the RAM all that well, and one or more of the chips bit the dust.

Don't bother with working on the card yourself. BFG has a lifetime warrenty, just RMA the card.

 

[Cares]

Anyone else experiencing similiar distortions in games though?

 

[foofoo]

cut and paste of my reply in general hardware...

hi,
i have a bfg 6800gt and was getting exactly the same type of distortions. i ended up rmaing the card to bfg twice and the returned ones showed the same distortions. especially in hl2 and farcry.
to make a really long and painful story short, nothing i could do would make it work on the 2 motherboards i tried. 450w fortron source power supplies, fresh clean installs, all of the available drivers from nvidia and guru3d, all of the bfg tech support advice. the strange thing is that i also tried a evga6600gt and a msi 5600 ultra in the same computers with the same drivers and they worked just fine.
i finally got it working (mostly) in a asus a8v deluxe with a a64_3200 and a coolermaster 450w ps. the motherboards that it gave problems in were a chaintech and a gigabyte (both more than 1 year old).
i'm not sure what's going on here but i'm not happy with this purchase, and if i wasnt able to get it going in a motherboard i already had, i'd be looking for my money back.


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this is the distortions i get in farcry
here

 

[rise]

what board isn't/wasn't it working on? i recently heard that nf3 chipsets can have problems with the 6800 series for some reason.

 

[Cares]

gigabyte k8nsnxp-939 nf3 is the motherboard he has

 

[foofoo]

Originally posted by: rise4310
what board isn't/wasn't it working on? i recently heard that nf3 chipsets can have problems with the 6800 series for some reason.

hi,
the motherboards that it wouldnt work with were
Gigabyte GA-K8S760M
chaintech 7VJL5

right now it plays both hl2 and farcry fine on the asus a8v without artifacts. but i do get errors running the css video test. it's just that none of the errors are visible in game yet. so i am not yet looking for my money back. i'll be that would be an ugly fight.