Okay, so I bought a refurbed 6600 GT from newegg, it arrived and displayed massive rendering errors. It would run smooth, but with fuz, empty polygons, the usual. I mailed it back. Since I've heard good things about them still, I bought a 6800 GT refurbed for USD$210. It was a Leadtek Winfast and came with the full bundle, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, the cables, everyting.
I install the card, the driver, and everything's going smoothly. Then I fire up 3DMark2001 as a very basic test. The screen starts to do something weird. Odd patterns of lines start to flicker across the screen. They keep doing that before fully freezing the system up. I restart the system, and WHOA! Those same crazy lines are all over my bootup screen, and everything. By the time Windows enables the driver, it instantly freezes up. I get mad and turn the system off. I let the card, and myself, cool off for a while. I turn it back on, looks fine again.
Must be the heat right? Well, not being much into overclocking and just using stock fans with everything, I don't know good temps from bad temps. Having just booted up and starting this message, the temps are this:
GPU Core Temperature: 68 degrees C (the bar thingy has one yellow bar lit)
Ambient Temperature: 51 degrees C
Is this bad? Does this mean all I have to do is remount the heatsink with new thermalpaste? Or are my symptoms something else and I need to return the card? It would be a real bumber to have to return the whole thing, having the entire bundle is such a treat for a refurb. Especially when I got for USD$210 what sells new for USD$290.
I install the card, the driver, and everything's going smoothly. Then I fire up 3DMark2001 as a very basic test. The screen starts to do something weird. Odd patterns of lines start to flicker across the screen. They keep doing that before fully freezing the system up. I restart the system, and WHOA! Those same crazy lines are all over my bootup screen, and everything. By the time Windows enables the driver, it instantly freezes up. I get mad and turn the system off. I let the card, and myself, cool off for a while. I turn it back on, looks fine again.
Must be the heat right? Well, not being much into overclocking and just using stock fans with everything, I don't know good temps from bad temps. Having just booted up and starting this message, the temps are this:
GPU Core Temperature: 68 degrees C (the bar thingy has one yellow bar lit)
Ambient Temperature: 51 degrees C
Is this bad? Does this mean all I have to do is remount the heatsink with new thermalpaste? Or are my symptoms something else and I need to return the card? It would be a real bumber to have to return the whole thing, having the entire bundle is such a treat for a refurb. Especially when I got for USD$210 what sells new for USD$290.
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