Recent content by Ihmemies

Thanks for all the tips! I simulated the reference cooler with some hard plastic sheets around the GPU heatsink so the case fans play a smaller part at cooling the card. Artifacting is a lot smaller problem now but it seems it will be hard, if not impossible to completely fix :| I will need to...

Of course in theory I could put the stock cooler back on and try to take the card back, say nothing and see what happens. But that's so much work again cleaning the card and applying thermal paste, seating the cooler & all those 16 or so screws... Then I get another card with a noisy cooler and...

Anyways if for whatever reason the card is gone then it is gone. Removing the cooler voids warranty so the only option I see here is to get as much use out of this card as possible :)

Memory chips shouldn't need that much cooling anyways, I've seen many cards like Evga GTX580 SC where the memory chips have only the card's fans cooling them. I checked the gpu contact earlier and it is fine. Memory/vrm/etc heatsinks also are firmly in place. I've built computers for my living...

So I have a reference card with stock cooler. The radial fan makes terrible noise so I switched to quieter cooling system. Originally my idle temps were 50C but now they are 30C and even less for some parts like VRM. I get artifacts at low temps which go away when I get up to stock cooler's...

I have a similar issue with Asus 6950 2GB. When card is cold (30C) I get small dots in desktop and other gpu accelerated stuff like videos etc. When I start a game I get artifacts depending on the game until gpu warms up over 40C. Running furmark I get 60C and absolutely no artifacts. Same goes...