X1900xt artifacting like mad in games... makes them very ugly and sometimes causes freezing

ronnystrauss

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my x1900xt is bothering me. crysis, quake wars, mass effect, stalker.... the artifacting is horrible!! idk what the problem is. it doesnt do it in counterstrike as far as I can remember. Ive reapplied thermal paste and ive cleared the fans. Its not overclocked or anything and i doubt its a power supple issue.... i have a nice 700 watt psu. Ive tried different driver versions even. I'm either getting a 4870 or a couple 4850's but for now this is annoying me to no end... plus i cant even sell it! Any ideas? All games patched btw to newest version.

examples below
PS: masseffect artifact may be hard to see but it was black most of the time... happend to become transparent when i did the screen shot

http://www.hardcoreware.net/fo...tid=17535&d=1212273236

http://www.hardcoreware.net/fo...tid=17536&d=1212273236