Stupid artifacts!

I was getting TONS of artifacts in games lately, to the point where it slowed down the game then locked it up. I decided to have a look see under the hood, and found hair melted to the underside of the video card, right under the processor. Could the hair be the offender? I removed it (took a little bit of scraping by my fingernail, but nothing rough), but I'm not entirely sure if the video card is going to be damaged or not by the stupid hair.

Seems like the artifacts are still there...I think my videocard is dying.

 

[Turkish]

Rambaldi artifacts?

 

[PunDogg]

i doubt the hair had that much of an affect on your vid card

Dogg

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
I was getting TONS of artifacts in games lately, to the point where it slowed down the game then locked it up. I decided to have a look see under the hood, and found hair melted to the underside of the video card, right under the processor. Could the hair be the offender? I removed it (took a little bit of scraping by my fingernail, but nothing rough), but I'm not entirely sure if the video card is going to be damaged or not by the stupid hair.

Seems like the artifacts are still there...I think my videocard is dying.

Got it over clocked?

What temp is your computer running?

 

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: FallenHero
I was getting TONS of artifacts in games lately, to the point where it slowed down the game then locked it up. I decided to have a look see under the hood, and found hair melted to the underside of the video card, right under the processor. Could the hair be the offender? I removed it (took a little bit of scraping by my fingernail, but nothing rough), but I'm not entirely sure if the video card is going to be damaged or not by the stupid hair.

Seems like the artifacts are still there...I think my videocard is dying.

Got it over clocked?

What temp is your computer running?

No overclock. Its a 4600 ti and current temps, as of thi time of this writing is 45C/113F for the processor, and 41C/105F for the Motherboard. Thats on the 1.7 P4 (original core). I do have the 56.64 drivers installed, but it did the same thing on the 56.72 drivers.

 

[Brutuskend]

That's all I got!

Sorry.

 

[acemcmac]

did you have to pull off the HSF to determine this? Im a little lost on your description...

"underside" to me has always meant the HSF side

thats why we're going to BTX

 

Originally posted by: acemcmac
did you have to pull off the HSF to determine this? Im a little lost on your description...

"underside" to me has always meant the HSF side

thats why we're going to BTX

No, its cool. Anyway, underside = under the videocard...the opposite side to the HSF. Not UNDER the HSF, just the otherside of it, where all the soldering is done.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Aparrently thats the hair of the dog that bit you. :laugh:

Time to get another one or RMA it.

 

[bandana163]

Try lowering the core frequency.

 

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Aparrently thats the hair of the dog that bit you. :laugh:

Time to get another one or RMA it.

Yea, I just shot BFG an email. I *THINK* it might be related to the fact that I was running forceware drivers, as I just went from the 56.64 to the 43.45 and it just cleared up Command and Conquer: Generals. Lets hope BFG is kind enough to send me a replacement should it need one though...I don't have the money after upgrading my monitor.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Might be cooked.