When overclocking the cpu, would you be getting graphical articfacts?

[funboy6942]

I am having the problem with my system, that I made another thread on, but the more I think of it it has to be a graphical problem rather then fsb on the cpu I am getting, even though I am not overclocking the graphics card at all.

I am getting strange shading and lighting effects in everything but 3dmark 2001. In 2003 and 2005 I have to set my fsb on the cpu down further to lessen the artifacts. But then I had it down from 310 to 280 with none and was trying out the firstorm demo from Intel. It was looking good and for giggles I set it to high and got the artifacts all over the place again. I stopped it right away and set it to low, and still had the artifacts. Triangular shapes, wire frames, the works, as if I was massively overclocking my graphics card, and what I would get when I would oc it too high on other cards, but I wasnt over clocking this one at all.

I uninstalled my ATI software, in doing so I got a error right away, but it still finished the uninstall, and popped in the cd that came with my X1900GT and have installed the graphics stuff on there.

NOW I am set back at 310FSB and I get no more artifacts in 2003 and 2005 WTF chuck. So was it indeed a bad install of the lastest drivers, or wth just happened? What kind of screw ups would I get when ocing the cpu to high, last I heard years ago I would get weird windows boot errors, or wont boot at all with bsod. Im getting no booting errors till I hit 315 fsb, then it wont boot past bios. but at 310, windows is stable, no errors.

So did I just get lucky and it was a bad driver install like I thought it was, or was I just taking to much of my pain meds and imagined it all, and Im coming down off my high seeing everything ok?

 

[tigersty1e]

How hot was your video card getting?

Raising the FSB raises the whole system. So the speed at which the CPU and RAM interacts with the video card also increased. Could be your video card is at it's limit even if not OCd.

 

[Thor86]

What stability tests are you using besides 3DMock?

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
How hot was your video card getting?

Raising the FSB raises the whole system. So the speed at which the CPU and RAM interacts with the video card also increased. Could be your video card is at it's limit even if not OCd.

46c according to CC, I have a Zalman something 700 hsf attached and ramsinks as well, for the stock was crap.

Originally posted by: Thor86
What stability tests are you using besides 3DMock?

So far there has been that, Intel Fire Storm Demo, prime95, and ATI tool, since changing the graphics driver. Still at 310fsb and no errors have been reported. I have tried to oc the graphics card at 310fsb, and it just crashes when I try to do that, as in a graphics crash, ATI error thing pops up. So I am just happy right now at 210 and leaving the graphics card alone with the high scores I been getting.

 

[tigersty1e]

Is your card PCI-E?

When you raise the FSB, does the PCIE freq or PCI freq also increase?


Try to keep those at the normal level (100 and 33.33 I believe) when you raise the fsb.


Disclaimer: I'm new at this OC too.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
Is your card PCI-E?

When you raise the FSB, does the PCIE freq or PCI freq also increase?


Try to keep those at the normal level (100 and 33.33 I believe) when you raise the fsb.


Disclaimer: I'm new at this OC too.

Nope I kept those not in sync with the fsb. Atlease thats what the bios said, and what I selected.