I recently bought an ATI radeon 9800 Pro 25mb card for doom.
Since i was thinking about overclocking it a bit, i decided to put on a better heatsink/fan to cool it. I I bought this one: Heatsink
After i installed it and everything, i played a little unreal, then went to bed, when i woke up, my login screen was covered with artifacts. I rebooted, and everything was fine(note, at this point, i had not overclocked anything yet) so i turned on doom and started playing a bit. After about ten minutes, the screen was covered again, i knew there was a problem, so i turned off my computer, i thought maybe i had put the heatsink on wrong. I took it apart and put it back together. When i put it back on, i ran doom again, for about ten minutes, then again, there were artifacts. So i ran unreal for a while, just to make sure it wasn't doom doing this, and once again, after ten minutes,
artifacts. After that i turned off my computer and took off the fan that i put on it, because i had a fan on the side of the case, and i thought maybe the airflow was messed up somehow. So after, i installed it, ran doom, but it was only worse, artifacts all over the startup screen, same with unreal, and all over the desktop. So i took it out, let it cool down a bit, then tryed it in a different computer, on the second computer, it gave me artifacts all over the login screen. After that, I let it cool down, and took a break, thinking about what i should do. I took it apart, and found out i had put on the nvidia heatsink, which didn't go on the gpu right. With newfound hope, i put it back together using the ati heatsink, put it in the computer to find... artifacts, same as before.
It might have been overheated, but it didn't smell like it was.
So what should i do?
im running:
AMD athlonXP 2500+
768mb memory
ATI radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Albatron KX600
Windows XP DX9.0c Doom3 hotfix drivers (4.9 i think) beta
Since i was thinking about overclocking it a bit, i decided to put on a better heatsink/fan to cool it. I I bought this one: Heatsink
After i installed it and everything, i played a little unreal, then went to bed, when i woke up, my login screen was covered with artifacts. I rebooted, and everything was fine(note, at this point, i had not overclocked anything yet) so i turned on doom and started playing a bit. After about ten minutes, the screen was covered again, i knew there was a problem, so i turned off my computer, i thought maybe i had put the heatsink on wrong. I took it apart and put it back together. When i put it back on, i ran doom again, for about ten minutes, then again, there were artifacts. So i ran unreal for a while, just to make sure it wasn't doom doing this, and once again, after ten minutes,
artifacts. After that i turned off my computer and took off the fan that i put on it, because i had a fan on the side of the case, and i thought maybe the airflow was messed up somehow. So after, i installed it, ran doom, but it was only worse, artifacts all over the startup screen, same with unreal, and all over the desktop. So i took it out, let it cool down a bit, then tryed it in a different computer, on the second computer, it gave me artifacts all over the login screen. After that, I let it cool down, and took a break, thinking about what i should do. I took it apart, and found out i had put on the nvidia heatsink, which didn't go on the gpu right. With newfound hope, i put it back together using the ati heatsink, put it in the computer to find... artifacts, same as before.
It might have been overheated, but it didn't smell like it was.
So what should i do?
im running:
AMD athlonXP 2500+
768mb memory
ATI radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Albatron KX600
Windows XP DX9.0c Doom3 hotfix drivers (4.9 i think) beta
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