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I have the mentioned setup (below) and it was driving me nuts. Overclocked to 310 FSB, no pin or volt mod, it would run 3dmark2001 with no problems, or artifacts.
When I tried 2003 however big time artifacts in the nature portion, and never went further then that.
In 2005 big time artifacts right off the bat in the first part of the tests. This pissed me off because I got nothing weird in 2001. So I backed it down to 300, same results, just not near as bad. Backed it down to 295 fsb, and passed 2005 without a single artifact, but still had weird graphical artifacts in 2003 still in the nature part, still not as bad, but shadows were missing or off, as in not looking right, and had triangular things shooting off objects all over the screen.
Backed it downto 290 and it all went away in every test. Now I have my settings in bios at async, so that my PCI-E and PCI slots are not going up with the cpu fsb, and there is no problems in getting into windows, or any windows program at 310fsb, but till I hit 315fsb, I get windows booting errors, or no booting at all. To the best I can think of, cpu overclocking should not of made all the artifacts I was seeing, for it looked as if I was overclocking the gpu and memory, badly, for I know what that looks like, I have done it a few times in the past with other cards, IE 9500pro turned into a 9700pro. I had one when using the modded driver would make these same type of weird graphical artifacts I was seeing, and I had another that would mod with no problems at all into a 9700pro.
So this got me thinking, at the time I had ATi's latest driver installed, so I removed it and installed the driver that came with my graphics card and low and behold not a single artifact all the way back up to 310fsb, in any of my programs. So today I decided to try the driver again from ATi thinking maybe I had a bad install of it. Removed all the ATi stuff, re-downloaded the driver again, and installed it yet again. Same results, artifacts again, the exact same way in, all with the same fsb till it would all go away when I would back it down to 290fsb.
So because of this I thought I would tell all about my findings, in hopes of helping a few with the same hardware, that may be getting artifacts as I was, thinking there cpu isnt the greatest, or their card may be messed up. Uninstall your latest driver and install the one that came with your video card and post your results, and lets see if ATi has a true problem, if this happens on more then just my rig.
My hardware:
E4300 oc'd to 2.8
Asrock 4coredual-vsta 1.7 bios
Creative X-FImusic
1 gig of Kingston DDR2 667 ram running at 533 cas 5
ATi Build X1900GT
I hope this helps some of you out there, and if this did, please post so, and I will take our findings to ATi so they can hopefully find the bug that is causing the artifats with the newest driver.
When I tried 2003 however big time artifacts in the nature portion, and never went further then that.
In 2005 big time artifacts right off the bat in the first part of the tests. This pissed me off because I got nothing weird in 2001. So I backed it down to 300, same results, just not near as bad. Backed it down to 295 fsb, and passed 2005 without a single artifact, but still had weird graphical artifacts in 2003 still in the nature part, still not as bad, but shadows were missing or off, as in not looking right, and had triangular things shooting off objects all over the screen.
Backed it downto 290 and it all went away in every test. Now I have my settings in bios at async, so that my PCI-E and PCI slots are not going up with the cpu fsb, and there is no problems in getting into windows, or any windows program at 310fsb, but till I hit 315fsb, I get windows booting errors, or no booting at all. To the best I can think of, cpu overclocking should not of made all the artifacts I was seeing, for it looked as if I was overclocking the gpu and memory, badly, for I know what that looks like, I have done it a few times in the past with other cards, IE 9500pro turned into a 9700pro. I had one when using the modded driver would make these same type of weird graphical artifacts I was seeing, and I had another that would mod with no problems at all into a 9700pro.
So this got me thinking, at the time I had ATi's latest driver installed, so I removed it and installed the driver that came with my graphics card and low and behold not a single artifact all the way back up to 310fsb, in any of my programs. So today I decided to try the driver again from ATi thinking maybe I had a bad install of it. Removed all the ATi stuff, re-downloaded the driver again, and installed it yet again. Same results, artifacts again, the exact same way in, all with the same fsb till it would all go away when I would back it down to 290fsb.
So because of this I thought I would tell all about my findings, in hopes of helping a few with the same hardware, that may be getting artifacts as I was, thinking there cpu isnt the greatest, or their card may be messed up. Uninstall your latest driver and install the one that came with your video card and post your results, and lets see if ATi has a true problem, if this happens on more then just my rig.
My hardware:
E4300 oc'd to 2.8
Asrock 4coredual-vsta 1.7 bios
Creative X-FImusic
1 gig of Kingston DDR2 667 ram running at 533 cas 5
ATi Build X1900GT
I hope this helps some of you out there, and if this did, please post so, and I will take our findings to ATi so they can hopefully find the bug that is causing the artifats with the newest driver.