4870 Uber-Artifacting

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Elev8r

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Ever since about a week or two after i bought my GeCube 1GB 4870 (Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3, Bios F13) I've been getting some insane atrifacting issues in various games. My temps are always below 60 degrees and I have my fan speed set at 55% in CCC. The atrifacting occurs completely randomly, sometimes after I've played for a while other times after just leaving the game on the pause menu for a few minutes. Artifacting occurs when overclocked and on stock speeds.

Games which I've had issues with: Prince of Persia, CoD4, Team Fortress 2, Crysis Warhead and a couple others I can't remember.

Here's what I'm talking about: http://i39.tinypic.com/2r22546.jpg, http://i39.tinypic.com/4ilcli.jpg

The same thing happens to all character models in those three games. Any idea as to what the problem is?:confused:
 
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Elev8r said:
Ever since about a week or two after i bought my GeCube 1GB 4870 (Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3, Bios F13) I've been getting some insane atrifacting issues in various games. My temps are always below 60 degrees and I have my fan speed set at 55% in CCC. The atrifacting occurs completely randomly, sometimes after I've played for a while other times after just leaving the game on the pause menu for a few minutes. Artifacting occurs when overclocked and on stock speeds.

Games which I've had issues with: Prince of Persia, CoD4, Team Fortress 2, Crysis Warhead and a couple others I can't remember.

Here's what I'm talking about: http://i39.tinypic.com/2r22546.jpg

The same thing happens to all character models in those three games. Any idea as to what the problem is?:confused:
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your ram on that card my be over heating or even bust...
I only get artifacts when my card hits 100degree :o.
you must just try increase the fan speed to say 70% or even to 100%, if the problem stop with increased fan speed then you just need a better cooler, if it persists take it back to the shop
 
I doubt it's heat.

Are you using the latest (8.12) drivers?

Try uninstalling them completely and reinstalling them,,, maybe try the 8.11 set or the DNA modified drivers.
 
I had similar artefacts on an ATi card and it turned out to be drivers.

It doesn't sound like a heat problem at 60 degrees but try speeding up the fans (maybe open the case for more cool air) and see if it helps incase the reading is wrong, touching the different heatsinks to get an idea might help too.

Trying a few different driver versions will hopefully sort it out finding one that doesn't cause this.

If it still happens at this point it may be faulty, it could be it's RAM or other hardware that's faulty. Trying to play an old game or 3Dmark that doesn't use much RAM and forcing it to run with very high AA/AF so it still stresses the GPU without using to much RAM might help narrow it down, if you get no artefacts while doing this then it might be it's RAM but if you do still get artefacts then it' may be the GPU.
 
Using the 8.12 drivers. Will try uninstalling and re-installing now now. Thanks for the replys guys;)

My RAM temps peak at 65 degrees so I don't think it is heat, but I am planning on buying an aftermarket cooler anyways because the fan is just way too loud.
 
What size is your PSU? If the power is low due to high demand, it will cause very bad artifacts on ATI cards.
 
The most important thing is to deliver voltage on the rail with enough amps, some cheaper psu, even if 500W and above, lack amperage and high end gfx cards artifact on them.
 
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