What does the appearance of avideo artifact mean?

[mshan]

Does the appearance of a video artifact mean:

- reversible damage is occuring due to overheating of the gpu or video memory?

- permanent damage has occurred previously and the artifact is a result of the damaged video card making an error during video processing?

Also, can others describe what video artifacts typically look like?

 

[dug777]

usually no damage, if you step the speed back down when you see them. For the record i've never fried/damaged a card overclocking, or a cpu, and i don't personally know anyone who has...follow the guides, watch your temps, and use common sense and you should be fine.

you'll know them when you see them is all i can say, a rough description is funky flashes/tearing spots, sections of textures flashing...

 

[michal1980]

or it means you exhuast fan as died and cause overheating of every compent of you pc to the point where your mobo is beeping, and while playing bf2 your grahpics look like old school 486 3-d games, where 'polygon' count matters because thats all you see, boxes/triangles.

oh wait, thats my pc, stupid exhuast fan.

anyways if ur o.c. it means you went to far, or u need better cooling.

also anyone remeber when the talk of the town was how many polygons could be shown on screen at once..

 

[mshan]

What do you guys think of the graphical corruption in these screen shots:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1711124&enterthread=y

Are they more likely to be driver issues (I've tried several different Catalyst drivers)

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: mshan
What do you guys think of the graphical corruption in these screen shots:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1711124&enterthread=y

Are they more likely to be driver issues (I've tried several different Catalyst drivers)

well i'd try driver cleaner then Catalyst 5.9/5.8s (which ever are the latest out) and see if it goes away, but it doesn't look like heat artifacting to me (at least none i've seen), much more like a major gfx driver fvck-up...