So, ever since I've had this new system of mine, my Geforce 6800GT has had some... issues.
So what happens is that I will overclock it to a certain level. Let's give it a generous boost of... 410 mhz, 1.13 ghz. This overclock was stable in my old system, and so it should easily be stable in my new, more powerful system, with even more power to feed its hungry circuits.
However, strange things have happened. What happens is that randomly durnig any 3d application (can be minutes, or hours into a game, let's say), the screen will freeze, all sound will stop, and MAYBE some hard drive churning, but not enough to say that that's the problem. The screen remains frozen for about 10 seconds. After, the computer unfreezes, and continues to operate ALMOST normally. The main difference is, video performance is MUCH lower. Take for example, Doom 3. I can usually sustain 60 fps in the game, but after one of these freezes, my average fps will be around 40-45.
The problem DOES show up less often if I don't overclock, but that almost defeats the purpose of me having this card. Plus, on my old system, which was not as powerful as my current one (Old system: Pentium 4 2.4b --> New system: Athlon 64 3400+), I did not have this problem.
Is this a common problem? My motherboard is the DFI nforce3 250gb Lanparty, PNY Geforce 6800GT, 450W power supply.
So what happens is that I will overclock it to a certain level. Let's give it a generous boost of... 410 mhz, 1.13 ghz. This overclock was stable in my old system, and so it should easily be stable in my new, more powerful system, with even more power to feed its hungry circuits.
However, strange things have happened. What happens is that randomly durnig any 3d application (can be minutes, or hours into a game, let's say), the screen will freeze, all sound will stop, and MAYBE some hard drive churning, but not enough to say that that's the problem. The screen remains frozen for about 10 seconds. After, the computer unfreezes, and continues to operate ALMOST normally. The main difference is, video performance is MUCH lower. Take for example, Doom 3. I can usually sustain 60 fps in the game, but after one of these freezes, my average fps will be around 40-45.
The problem DOES show up less often if I don't overclock, but that almost defeats the purpose of me having this card. Plus, on my old system, which was not as powerful as my current one (Old system: Pentium 4 2.4b --> New system: Athlon 64 3400+), I did not have this problem.
Is this a common problem? My motherboard is the DFI nforce3 250gb Lanparty, PNY Geforce 6800GT, 450W power supply.
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