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Radeon Diamond 6950 textures flickering

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yes, so I guess if you run an artifact scanning tool and it doesn't find any errors is it safe to say that the video card is good?
 
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Have no clue.

Guess you can always do a fresh install of windows (and really you should move from windows xp preferably to windows 7), get your Q6600 at stock clocks, install the 11.1 driver for XP or the 11.1a driver for windows Vista/7 (http://downloads.guru3d.com/AMD-Catalyst-11.1a-Hotfix--x32-x64-download-2668.html ) and see if the problem persist.

The artifacting you got when you flashed your bios to 6970 is a normal signal indicating that the extra shaders of your 6950 have a problem (I saw that with the GeForce 6800nu, a card that could unlock PS and VS)-

The flickering at the desktop isn't (in a game could happen here and there) a normal situation though.
 
Whats the point of unlocking the extra shaders? If you don't unlock the extra clock speeds. Yeah I plan on going to win 7 or at least giving it a try, I hear its a lot better then vista which I tried and didn't like to much. One thing I guess I should add which is really what scares me or started all this concern is sometimes I can see little like artifacts on icons like when there highlighted or clicked on its hard to explain but there like little bright dots. And sometimes I can kind of see them sprink around on the screen for a fraction of a second. Thats why I am so concerned there barely noticable but you can see them. But thanks for the help I really appreciate it.
 
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Depends which runs better usually 1600x1000 or 1900x1000, Nothing is overclocked except for the cpu but that never breaks 70C even under extreme loads. And I was watching the temp on the video card while playing DS2 for several hours and it never broke 60C but I had the fan speed turned up to 50% manually.
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Did you adjust your pci express frequency when you O/C your processor?
 
nope, oh yeah another thing I just thought of is some times the mouse pointer turns into a jumbo up mess. I can still click on something but the icon is all screwed up. Sometimes it goes away and sometimes I have to reboot. Does it at least a nite.
 
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admaster99 said:
nope, oh yeah another thing I just thought of is some times the mouse pointer turns into a jumbo up mess. I can still click on something but the icon is all screwed up. Sometimes it goes away and sometimes I have to reboot.
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That is indeed a bug.

Whats the point of unlocking the extra shaders? If you don't unlock the extra clock speeds.
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I'm not sure what you mean.

You don't need to flash the 6950 to OC it.

The CCC panel limits the OC but that can be overcome with 3rd party tools, so you can potentially OC the 6950 to 6970 speeds (although 6950 and 6970 have different ram, 5Gbps for 6950 and 6Gbps for 6970).
 
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^ Only a little. The main performance gain is to had from increasing clock speeds... but why run at an overclocked speed if it gives you graphical corruption?
 
3DVagabond said:
Did you adjust your pci express frequency when you O/C your processor?
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admaster99 said:
nope, oh yeah another thing I just thought of is some times the mouse pointer turns into a jumbo up mess. I can still click on something but the icon is all screwed up. Sometimes it goes away and sometimes I have to reboot. Does it at least a nite.
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If that nope was to answer me then we might have found your problem. It needs to be set to 100MHz or it will O/C your card from increasing the FSB.

also if you didn't change the multiplier for your RAM that will be O/C'd too and could cause stability issues.
 
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Sorry the the bad response yes my pci express slot is set at 100 mhz and the ram is set so the multiplier causes it to fall at 800 mhz clock speed which is what is rated for. thanks
 
admaster99 said:
Sorry the the bad response yes my pci express slot is set at 100 mhz and the ram is set so the multiplier causes it to fall at 800 mhz clock speed which is what is rated for. thanks
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OK. Sounds like you've done your O/C correctly. Not trying to insult your intelligence, BTW. Just covering all of the bases.
 
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