BFG 6800GT PROBLEMS!

[Cares]

Sorry the Video forum is dead right now with no activity. Maybe someone here can help?

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/

 

[foofoo]

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.

 

[imported_llama]

i am wanting one of these cards, thanks for the warnings!

 

[Fern]

Looks to me like a driver problem.

What happens when you run DX Diag and/or vid benchies?

Fern

 

[psteng19]

I get something similar to that when playing CS:Source.
I turn off GART (nForce2 mb) and the artifacts go away.

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