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Unread 03-29-2005, 09:10 AM   #1
andy497
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: MI
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Default video card problems. anyone seen this?

I had problems with the stability of my video card (9800pro, artifacts at stock clocks), RMAed it, and they seemed to go away. It's got decent cooling (vga silencer), but it still shows artifacts when running atitool.

Anyway, I recently upgraded my cpu/mobo, and things got much worse. The stock clocks are 378/338 ddr, but atitool won't run without errors until I drop that to around 370/300. The thing is, I play stock clocks in counterstrike source and barely notice anything. Doom3 however has "glitter" everywhere.

Apparently this is a rare occurrence? I posted this on ati/video sites and got no help.

My guess/hope is that it's a problem with my power supply, since it got worse (I think) with the upgrade to amd 64. I have a plain vanilla antec 400W psu, which I would think would be sufficient.

I may try tonight to heavily underclock the cpu clock/vcore and see if the video improves. Otherwise, an ocz modstream 520 is on the way.

Last edited by andy497; 03-29-2005 at 12:52 PM. Reason: spelling
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