Hi Guys,
I bought an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 9800 128MB video card in Sept. 2004. When I first put it in my system, I had some stability problems running games like Doom -- I can't remember the exact problems I was having, but they seemed to get fixed when I connected the power connector on the video card directly to the power supply rather than through a line shared with a couple hard drives. However, this card has never been as stable as the radeon 9000 I had before....
Now, my video card is getting really bad with artifacts. It seems to get worse as time goes by. I'm seeing artifacts while watching videos now, and I never had that... and artifacts are really bad when gaming. I don't have anything overclocked in my system, and I have not overclocked my video card. I also see artifacts on my screensaver, which is pretty 3d intensive... and when I return to windows after running the screensaver, any videos contain tons of artifacts for about 5 min until the card "cools", then they clear up.
I ran ATITools on my video card to determine how much I could overclock my card, and it had to keep bumping my CPU/memory down, down, down below the card's default because the tests kept encountering artifacts.
Also, I have an Apple Cinema 23" display, so my video card is constantly pushing the 1920x1200 res...
Here are some base specs of my system:
AMD Athlon64 3500+
Asus A8V Deluxe (VIA K8T800Pro)
1GB Corsair Value RAM
SB Live! Audigy
2 Hard Drives,
2 EIDE Drives,
Antec Sontana Case w/ 380W Antec Power Supply
Do I have a defective card? Time for RMA?
Thanks for any input,
Andrew
I bought an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 9800 128MB video card in Sept. 2004. When I first put it in my system, I had some stability problems running games like Doom -- I can't remember the exact problems I was having, but they seemed to get fixed when I connected the power connector on the video card directly to the power supply rather than through a line shared with a couple hard drives. However, this card has never been as stable as the radeon 9000 I had before....
Now, my video card is getting really bad with artifacts. It seems to get worse as time goes by. I'm seeing artifacts while watching videos now, and I never had that... and artifacts are really bad when gaming. I don't have anything overclocked in my system, and I have not overclocked my video card. I also see artifacts on my screensaver, which is pretty 3d intensive... and when I return to windows after running the screensaver, any videos contain tons of artifacts for about 5 min until the card "cools", then they clear up.
I ran ATITools on my video card to determine how much I could overclock my card, and it had to keep bumping my CPU/memory down, down, down below the card's default because the tests kept encountering artifacts.
Also, I have an Apple Cinema 23" display, so my video card is constantly pushing the 1920x1200 res...
Here are some base specs of my system:
AMD Athlon64 3500+
Asus A8V Deluxe (VIA K8T800Pro)
1GB Corsair Value RAM
SB Live! Audigy
2 Hard Drives,
2 EIDE Drives,
Antec Sontana Case w/ 380W Antec Power Supply
Do I have a defective card? Time for RMA?
Thanks for any input,
Andrew
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