Hello all,
*** So to all of you who have been helping me I really appreciate it and your are fairly familiar with my problem, well as of last night I stock clocked the GPU and the Processor, did some TF2 max everything for about 3 hours and called it a night, this afternoon I downloaded the Furmark and ran the Stability test at 1280x1024 with no AA and the card shot up past 93c in seconds, I immediately stopped the test. Thinking nothing of it I started call of duty 5 to play a few matches and within 45 seconds the screen went to gray and I began to smell a burning from my case. I assumed the worst that my 500w powersupply had gave way and fried everything...., tried rebooting and got nothing, not even a DOS screen. I immediately pinpointed that it was the card that was smelling so I pulled it out and put in my old 8800gt and the computer started up fine....
I must say that though my powersupply is the smallest recommended, the key thing to me at least is that it is recommended by ATI. I obviously can return the card for a new sapphire, but im wondering.....was it a faulty card from the beginning, and thats why it inevitably died 3 days later, or did my setup destroy the card.... I guess I will begin contacting newegg about where to go from here
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New to the forums, also new to PC building. I just recently built my gaming computer and ran into my first real problem after purchasing a Sapphire HD 4970 1GB. My components are as follows
Antec 500w Earthwatt powersupply
E8500 OC to 3.6Ghz
Arctic cooler CPU fan
7200rpm 500GB HDD
4gb ddr ram
Sapphire 4870 1gb GPU OC (790/1000)mhz
Asus P5Q Pro 775 LGA
After installing I downloaded driver set 9.1 from ATI and ran the auto tune. The ATI auto set me at 820 for a gpu clock and 1000 for my memory clock. During this test a yellow icon with a exclamation mark in the center flashed twice telling me that the GPU had crashed and recovered successfully. After the autotune completed I attempted playing Rainbow 6 vegas 2, I was able to play for about 5 seconds before the entire comptuer would freeze. The same occurance happened in Call of duty 4. I was rather confused and did some back research here on the forums and found that people were having similar problems with the Sapphire 4870 512mb cards. I wasnt sure if anyone knows if the same problem that was fixed by flashing the Vbios is also a problem affecting there new 1GB models?? My other guess is that my powersupply is being maxxed out and the card is not getting sufficient power, or possibly I dont have sufficient power to OC the 4870???
The highest temp I noted during the Autotunes' load test was 74c, anyone seen a similar problem with their 1GB sapphire??? Any help will be much appreciated!!
Thanks guys
P.S. this is my first thread. From doing research I found the Anandtech forums to be by far the most helpful!!!
*** So to all of you who have been helping me I really appreciate it and your are fairly familiar with my problem, well as of last night I stock clocked the GPU and the Processor, did some TF2 max everything for about 3 hours and called it a night, this afternoon I downloaded the Furmark and ran the Stability test at 1280x1024 with no AA and the card shot up past 93c in seconds, I immediately stopped the test. Thinking nothing of it I started call of duty 5 to play a few matches and within 45 seconds the screen went to gray and I began to smell a burning from my case. I assumed the worst that my 500w powersupply had gave way and fried everything...., tried rebooting and got nothing, not even a DOS screen. I immediately pinpointed that it was the card that was smelling so I pulled it out and put in my old 8800gt and the computer started up fine....
I must say that though my powersupply is the smallest recommended, the key thing to me at least is that it is recommended by ATI. I obviously can return the card for a new sapphire, but im wondering.....was it a faulty card from the beginning, and thats why it inevitably died 3 days later, or did my setup destroy the card.... I guess I will begin contacting newegg about where to go from here
***New to the forums, also new to PC building. I just recently built my gaming computer and ran into my first real problem after purchasing a Sapphire HD 4970 1GB. My components are as follows
Antec 500w Earthwatt powersupply
E8500 OC to 3.6Ghz
Arctic cooler CPU fan
7200rpm 500GB HDD
4gb ddr ram
Sapphire 4870 1gb GPU OC (790/1000)mhz
Asus P5Q Pro 775 LGA
After installing I downloaded driver set 9.1 from ATI and ran the auto tune. The ATI auto set me at 820 for a gpu clock and 1000 for my memory clock. During this test a yellow icon with a exclamation mark in the center flashed twice telling me that the GPU had crashed and recovered successfully. After the autotune completed I attempted playing Rainbow 6 vegas 2, I was able to play for about 5 seconds before the entire comptuer would freeze. The same occurance happened in Call of duty 4. I was rather confused and did some back research here on the forums and found that people were having similar problems with the Sapphire 4870 512mb cards. I wasnt sure if anyone knows if the same problem that was fixed by flashing the Vbios is also a problem affecting there new 1GB models?? My other guess is that my powersupply is being maxxed out and the card is not getting sufficient power, or possibly I dont have sufficient power to OC the 4870???
The highest temp I noted during the Autotunes' load test was 74c, anyone seen a similar problem with their 1GB sapphire??? Any help will be much appreciated!!
Thanks guys
P.S. this is my first thread. From doing research I found the Anandtech forums to be by far the most helpful!!!
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