- Oct 9, 1999
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I've had this card for a few months but not really ran until the last 3 to 4 weeks. It's a Galaxy 2GB 660Ti card. It runs fine 99% of the time but in BF3, it will all of a sudden throw up artifacts. Once it does, they also appear in other benchmarks such as 3DMark11. A simple "warm reboot" (START, Restart) corrects it.
Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814162120
My Power supply is a new Seasonic X650 GOLD. I have 32GB of Patriot DDR3 1333 that just had 2 sticks replaced because they were bad (now functioning fine under memtest86+). Board is an MSI Z77MA-G45 (flashed with latest BIOS). The CPU is a XEON E3-1230V2 running at stock with a Xigmatek 120MM Dark Knight cooler.
Everything is running at stock.
Ran FurMark for nearly 2 hours and temperatures of the GPU never went above 74C and no artifacting. Ran VMT (Video Memory Test) and it found ZERO errors in ram (have not ran either once the artifacting starts - hard to know when that will happen). OCCT GPU memory test reports thousands of errors but I'm not sure that which test to believe - VMT or OCCT since one says good and the other says bad.
Have swapped the card to different slots on the motherboard and have tried 2 generations of drivers as well as the latest BETA (actually, have had no artifacts during the BETA but it doesn't happen often so no proof just yet).
Anything else I can do to test this? I don't have a power supply right now but I could, if necessary, swap it out to another PC with the same supply in it. I'm just at a loss as to what's causing it.
While my main memory was taking a dump, the video card did stop responding several times with Windows posting that the video card driver had stopped and was restarted. It has not happened since I replaced the ram and reinstalled the driver. I checked the Windows system files with SFC (System File Checker) to make sure that no files had become corrupt due to the bad memory. Integrity was reported as 100%.
Any other ideas short of pulling the card and RMA just to be safe?
Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814162120
My Power supply is a new Seasonic X650 GOLD. I have 32GB of Patriot DDR3 1333 that just had 2 sticks replaced because they were bad (now functioning fine under memtest86+). Board is an MSI Z77MA-G45 (flashed with latest BIOS). The CPU is a XEON E3-1230V2 running at stock with a Xigmatek 120MM Dark Knight cooler.
Everything is running at stock.
Ran FurMark for nearly 2 hours and temperatures of the GPU never went above 74C and no artifacting. Ran VMT (Video Memory Test) and it found ZERO errors in ram (have not ran either once the artifacting starts - hard to know when that will happen). OCCT GPU memory test reports thousands of errors but I'm not sure that which test to believe - VMT or OCCT since one says good and the other says bad.
Have swapped the card to different slots on the motherboard and have tried 2 generations of drivers as well as the latest BETA (actually, have had no artifacts during the BETA but it doesn't happen often so no proof just yet).
Anything else I can do to test this? I don't have a power supply right now but I could, if necessary, swap it out to another PC with the same supply in it. I'm just at a loss as to what's causing it.
While my main memory was taking a dump, the video card did stop responding several times with Windows posting that the video card driver had stopped and was restarted. It has not happened since I replaced the ram and reinstalled the driver. I checked the Windows system files with SFC (System File Checker) to make sure that no files had become corrupt due to the bad memory. Integrity was reported as 100%.
Any other ideas short of pulling the card and RMA just to be safe?
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