maniacalpha1-1
Diamond Member
My system is:
Thermaltake SMART 850W
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI
4690K
CM Hyper 212 Evo
2 4GB Mushkin DDR31600 RAM sticks
2 Vertex 4 128GB
1 Agility 3 60GB
1 1TB HDD
XFX 7970 non-ghz
I just re-built my rig from a cramped case into a full-tower with loads of space in it. It worked fine before, and after rebuilding, it worked fine until I fired up games; after a few minutes it freezes with one monitor brown and one blue (possibly because one connected with HDMI and one DVI to HDMI), and both vertically striped. After doing that, it will not reboot until I re-seat the card, but the end result is always the same.
If the video card is dead, no problem, upgrading soon anyway.
Any chance something is wrong with the power supply? Everything works fine from the integrated GPU slots, and while I have to limit it to older games (Everquest in this case), no gaming issues. Edit: The 7970 was beginning to artifact in some games, maybe it was just nearing the end and taking it out killed it? Most important thing is that nothing's wrong with the PSU such that would burn up replacements.
I also plugged in an old 9500GT and that worked, but it didn't require PCI-E connectors.
Thermaltake SMART 850W
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI
4690K
CM Hyper 212 Evo
2 4GB Mushkin DDR31600 RAM sticks
2 Vertex 4 128GB
1 Agility 3 60GB
1 1TB HDD
XFX 7970 non-ghz
I just re-built my rig from a cramped case into a full-tower with loads of space in it. It worked fine before, and after rebuilding, it worked fine until I fired up games; after a few minutes it freezes with one monitor brown and one blue (possibly because one connected with HDMI and one DVI to HDMI), and both vertically striped. After doing that, it will not reboot until I re-seat the card, but the end result is always the same.
If the video card is dead, no problem, upgrading soon anyway.
Any chance something is wrong with the power supply? Everything works fine from the integrated GPU slots, and while I have to limit it to older games (Everquest in this case), no gaming issues. Edit: The 7970 was beginning to artifact in some games, maybe it was just nearing the end and taking it out killed it? Most important thing is that nothing's wrong with the PSU such that would burn up replacements.
I also plugged in an old 9500GT and that worked, but it didn't require PCI-E connectors.
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