Getting artifacts at <65C?

[Mrvile]

I had my 6800GT OC'd to Ultra, but temps never went above 65C when running rthdribl. But when I play CS:S I still get artifacts. What gives? Could it be a driver problem? Thanks.

 

[Mrvile]

Hello.

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Hello.

what drivers are you using? all of the 7x.xx'es have issues with CSS/HL2. use the 67.66'es they are great. i have the modded ones off of guru3d.com
its not your temps 😉
linkage

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: zakee00

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Hello.

what drivers are you using? all of the 7x.xx'es have issues with CSS/HL2. use the 67.66'es they are great. i have the modded ones off of guru3d.com
its not your temps 😉
linkage

they do?

i have the 71.20 and its all good, though they are the valance studio jobbies, i remeber a thing about yellow water in HL2? now as i have only played HL2 on a 6800gt i dont no what the water should look like, but i heard a few people sayin about it, has it been fixed?

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: zakee00

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Hello.

what drivers are you using? all of the 7x.xx'es have issues with CSS/HL2. use the 67.66'es they are great. i have the modded ones off of guru3d.com
its not your temps 😉
linkage

they do?

i have the 71.20 and its all good, though they are the valance studio jobbies, i remeber a thing about yellow water in HL2? now as i have only played HL2 on a 6800gt i dont no what the water should look like, but i heard a few people sayin about it, has it been fixed?

Well, not all 7x.xx'es have yellow water (don't think the 71.20s do) but all of them have white specs on de_aztec. some have both yellow water (even green water) and white specs on aztec.

 

[HardWarrior]

Somone at NV needs to admit that the NV40 runs too hot for wimpy stock cooling. The GT I had before this one would start to act increasingly stupid at anything above and including 52c. A rep at BFG even had the audacity to suggest that the GT should run fine up to 72c. At 45c load the GT I have now runs slick as snot on a doorknob, no artifacts, no glitches.

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
Somone at NV needs to admit that the NV40 runs too hot for wimpy stock cooling. The GT I had before this one would start to act increasingly stupid at anything above and including 52c. A rep at BFG even had the audacity to suggest that the GT should run fine up to 72c. At 45c load the GT I have now runs slick as snot on a doorknob, no artifacts, no glitches.

when i voltmodded my gt to 1.4vcore, i got up to 90C and it was still perfectly stable, no issues. i bumped it back down to 1.3 though because it still scared me.
BTW, nice analogy 😉

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: zakee00

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
Somone at NV needs to admit that the NV40 runs too hot for wimpy stock cooling. The GT I had before this one would start to act increasingly stupid at anything above and including 52c. A rep at BFG even had the audacity to suggest that the GT should run fine up to 72c. At 45c load the GT I have now runs slick as snot on a doorknob, no artifacts, no glitches.

when i voltmodded my gt to 1.4vcore, i got up to 90C and it was still perfectly stable, no issues. i bumped it back down to 1.3 though because it still scared me.
BTW, nice analogy 😉

VERY impressive! I haven't been able to attach the balls needed for a volt mod. Was tha 90c with stock cooling? And thanks. 😉

 

[zakee00]

eh, its not hard but take a serious look at this if you are considering modding to 1.4v. that bios is 1.4v btw, and VERY easy to install. extract it to a bootable floppy, boot from the floppy, press 2 to backup your current BIOS, press 1 to flash to the new bios 😉
notice the warning though:

OK, im pulling the plug on GT card support. too many of them cant handle the 1.4v requirement

this bios is now only for Ultra cards and Ultra PCB based cards. Ultra PCB based cards can handle upto 1.6v so there is no problem there.

you can still try it, but i would PM him and ask what is the worst that can happen.
yeah i was usint 100% stock cooling, and the temps were more like ~87C. still, i wouldn't do it unless you have aftermarket cooling. did you say u get 45C load? watercooling? diffenately look into modding it 😉

EDIT: ah, noticed your dangerden cooler.... 🙁 i want one but have no money.
tell me how it goes,
Nick

 

[Mrvile]

Sorry for not replying to the post, been busy. Yeah I use the 7.1.24 (I think those are the numbers), so yeah I guess they'd mess things up a bit. I'm getting whtie specks in Aztec, sometimes I'll get purple surfaces, black patches, etc. I'll rollback to 67's and see what happens from that. Thanks zakee!

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Sorry for not replying to the post, been busy. Yeah I use the 7.1.24 (I think those are the numbers), so yeah I guess they'd mess things up a bit. I'm getting whtie specks in Aztec, sometimes I'll get purple surfaces, black patches, etc. I'll rollback to 67's and see what happens from that. Thanks zakee!

no problemo man, i just installed the 71.20's and have the same white specs problem. what i did though was type mat_specular 0 in the console (and in my autoexec.cfg file) so that they dissapear, at the expense of some shiny special effects. i'd rather have the performance boost myself until a new GOOD driver set comes out.
Nick

 

[Jeff7181]

Do the 71.80's have the same problems as the 71.20's???

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
Somone at NV needs to admit that the NV40 runs too hot for wimpy stock cooling. The GT I had before this one would start to act increasingly stupid at anything above and including 52c. A rep at BFG even had the audacity to suggest that the GT should run fine up to 72c. At 45c load the GT I have now runs slick as snot on a doorknob, no artifacts, no glitches.

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Do the 71.80's have the same problems as the 71.20's???

Yes, if not moreso. the newer .50/.60/.80's have temp issues...increases of up to 10C. I would read through the Guru3D Forums to see what others' experences have been like. Just search for the driver you are looking for, and there should be a thread for it.
Nick