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Matt Sakko

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Did you try the bucket?
 

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Mate no Im not putting my card in a bucket of water
 
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It might be the ram on the card overheating? this can be couseing the problem? 80c is hot but also normal these days when playing games so its not the GPU getting to hot, but ive seen that if a GTX 260 gets over 70c in a game that the ram gets to hot then the computer crashes, my m8 has a similar problem with his GTX 260 it crashes in games and goes all artifact like on the screen then gets kicked out of the game or has to do a hard reset, tried lots of drivers but it still seems to do it, so i think its temp issues but with the ram on the card.

Do you have a good air flow in your case? and or a fan blowing onto the card?

Have you done a memtest on your PC's ram?

The bucket of water thing is also WTF? to me as well and just silly in my eyes............

Good luck
 

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Thanks for making some sensible points mate, when it gets back from the shop ill have a look and see if I cant increase airflow and the cooling.
 
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Thanks for making some sensible points mate, when it gets back from the shop ill have a look and see if I cant increase airflow and the cooling.

No Problem

Was the card tested in another computer? with the same results? This would let us know for sure if its the card or not, and id say it is tho.

My m8s computer with the GTX260 ran flawless at the last LAN we went to, BUT it was freezing cold, which sorta makes me think it is a heat issue......
 

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Take his advice and you will see. You will find yourself unsuccessful. There is only one solution.
 
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Matt dont tell people to do stupid things.Some people are inexperienced and may just do it.Putting the card in a bucket of water will just ruin it.
 
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It sounds to me as it is a heating issue. Try and get some extra cooling on the card if you can.

And the bucket idea is pure stupidity.
 

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Matt dont tell people to do stupid things.Some people are inexperienced and may just do it.Putting the card in a bucket of water will just ruin it.

Stupid!! How dare you! None of my theories are stupid! It sounds like he has nothing to lose so why not try? Why does no-one believe me? Your loss mate.
 
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How is putting the card in a bucket of water going to help? Tell us so we can learn some new method then?
 

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Starting to think we should either ignore this guy or try and get his address out to a mental hospital somewhere.

Again thanks for the comments, I've got it in the shop at the moment and will try what you guys have suggested when I get it back.
 

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How is putting the card in a bucket of water going to help? Tell us so we can learn some new method then?

Well we are certain that it is a heat issue. Water is the best solution for heat. That is why water cooling was invented. :nutkick:

Again thanks for the comments

No problem. Glad I can be of service.
 

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The only time I saw this kind of full screen "mash-up" was on an old G-Force Ti4200 (one beast at it's time) and it was a temperature problem (2 minutes after entering a 3D application the whole screen image becomes corrupted with red/green/blue squares and the computer restarted).
So, my advices is, either try to replace the card cooler/thermal grease or "force" (somehow) the store to replace your card.

Oh and also Matt Sakko stop that, someone (outsider looking for help) might read only some parts of this topic and actually do it.
 
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were you in your computer before this happened ? did you touch the graphics card at all?

if you touched it a static discharge from you could have damaged a ram chip ive done it to a x800gt all in wonder.

find a program called furmark and do the extreme burn in test it should load up your graphics card and heat it up properly if it runs it for half an hour its not a hardware problem. it will also let you monitor the temp as it heats up.
 
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No problem. Glad I can be of service.

You've been nothing but a disservice to all of the other members in this thread. You have no need to post in here and you have been warned.

Blacksniper87 I'm pretty sure your card is faulty. To make sure it's not driver related follow this guide step by step (do everything): http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=52502

Once that is done and the card is still having problems, it needs to be RMA'd. Evga cannot possibly tell you it's not the card without looking at it.
 
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hmm don't think evga will rma it. Bought off e-bay and they recken they won't have anything to do with it. unless of course someone has an invoice out their for an evga GTX 280 :D
 
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