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[FreedomEclipse]

cpu's dieing as well

What have you been doing to your pc man?

 

[RCoon]

What have you been doing to your pc man?

Or what has his pc been doing to him!

 

[kurosagi01]

Is there any difference in getting a CPU+mobo that has PCIE 3.0 port compared to PCIE 2.0? Like from AMD platform in today hardware they have the new FX APU with motherboard with 3.0 and old FX still use PCIE 2.0.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Is there any difference in getting a CPU+mobo that has PCIE 3.0 port compared to PCIE 2.0? Like from AMD platform in today hardware they have the new FX APU with motherboard with 3.0 and old FX still use PCIE 2.0.

Not a huge lot of difference pcie-e 3.0 is just a tid bit faster

 

[cheesy999]

What have you been doing to your pc man?

who knows, it worked perfectly fine for years until i bought and launched train simulator so i'll blame it on that

only unusual thing is that the artifacting is intermittent, and sometimes specific, for example in war thunder only the smoke and water render incorrectly

 

[FreedomEclipse]

who knows, it worked perfectly fine for years until i bought and launched train simulator so i'll blame it on that

only unusual thing is that the artifacting is intermittent, and sometimes specific, for example in war thunder only the smoke and water render incorrectly

For a second there i thought you were about to blame it on the boogie.

are the temps doin ok? if your system is overclocked maybe its the VRMs that are crapping out and you should lower the OC. Drop everything back to stock and see if the same issue persists.

If that doesnt work, then have you tried turning it on and off again?

 

[cheesy999]

are the temps doin ok? if your system is overclocked maybe its the VRMs that are crapping out and you should lower the OC. Drop everything back to stock and see if the same issue persists.

dropped it back to stock and it wouldn't boot

VRM's on the card seem alright at least, got no sensor on the board so we'll never know about that

 

[FreedomEclipse]

dropped it back to stock and it wouldn't boot

VRM's on the card seem alright at least, got no sensor on the board so we'll never know about that

how bout your CPU?

 

[cheesy999]

how bout your CPU?

It was what was dropped back to stock, seeing as the cards always ran on the hotter side i never saw the overclock as worth the noise increase

The card has had the shader unlock done on it, but having never touched graphics card bios before I'm reluctant to try and unflash it

 

[FreedomEclipse]

what sorta cooling you got on CPU? your system specs aint too descriptive.

 

[cheesy999]

what sorta cooling you got on CPU? your system specs aint too descriptive.

it's a Xigmatek tower cooler of some long forgotten specification HDT-S963, idles around 45ish tops out around 55-60c depending on the weather, The artifacts last for a single frame if it helps in any way, they are replaced by entirely new ones every frame, they also happen outside of 3d games when large screen changes occur like bringing up a new window, they seem to apply in ubuntu as well, i can attempt to video them if it would help.

Thanks for all the help so far btw

Edit: found it

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well... Since you did mention that you flashed your 6950 to unlock the extra shaders that might have something to with the artifacting - CPUs dont artifact. Have you tried swapping out the graphics card to something else or testing the 6950 in a different PC?

 

[cheesy999]

Well... Since you did mention that you flashed your 6950 to unlock the extra shaders that might have something to with the artifacting - CPUs dont artifact. Have you tried swapping out the graphics card to something else or testing the 6950 in a different PC?

I'll try that tomorrow thanks!

Unfortunately I didn't unlock the shaders so I've no real idea of how to un unlock them

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I'll try that tomorrow thanks!

Unfortunately I didn't unlock the shaders so I've no real idea of how to un unlock them

ok.... Id say thats whats causing the problem right there. you didnt flash it back to the previous bios ;p

 

[cheesy999]

ok.... Id say thats whats causing the problem right there. you didnt flash it back to the previous bios ;p

It's been like this since I got it, i've no idea why it would cause problems now but i'm willing to try locking them again if it might fix it

 

[FreedomEclipse]

ok... Hang on, lets just clear something up.

Id you ever attempt to unlock the shaders or did someone do it for you?

 

[cheesy999]

ok... Hang on, lets just clear something up.

Id you ever attempt to unlock the shaders or did someone do it for you?

previous owner

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Did you get the card off ebay, TPU or a friend? Honestly id just pull it out and try using another graphics card for a bit to see if the 6950.

I never had a 6950 but i heard of some people doing the shader unlock and even though the shaders didnt unlock ran absolutely fine until a few days or weeks later. Best to flash it back to the original bios designed for your card and see if that fixes the problem.

 

[cheesy999]

Did you get the card off ebay, TPU or a friend? Honestly id just pull it out and try using another graphics card for a bit to see if the 6950.

I never had a 6950 but i heard of some people doing the shader unlock and even though the shaders didnt unlock ran absolutely fine until a few days or weeks later. Best to flash it back to the original bios designed for your card and see if that fixes the problem.

I was given it by Erocker a bit over three years ago, and it's been a rock solid card until a few days ago, but yes, I'll swap a few parts between my pc's and if it still looks to be the card it'll be time for the original bios

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well at least we all know erocker knows what he's doing when it comes to pc related stuff so I cant really saying anything else apart from try testing a different GPU.

 

[cheesy999]

Well at least we all know erocker knows what he's doing when it comes to pc related stuff so I cant really saying anything else apart from try testing a different GPU.

Gives me something to do tomorrow, If it looks to be the card i might go for one of these things

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-274-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673

no idea what ocuk refurbs are like but the sheer quantity of them they have indicates they're probably all from msi themselves

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I bought a B-Grade 280X from OCuK, and it worked perfectly fine. that 7950 doesnt look too bad

 

[cheesy999]

I bought a B-Grade 280X from OCuK, and it worked perfectly fine. that 7950 doesnt look too bad

The thought was they might be a gen old, but they're as fast as a 760 and for £40 more than a single 760 one could have two of them

edit: i have noticed a pattern

This one is quite fun because it shows the plane and text being rendered quite normally on top of the error

 

[the54thvoid]

Is that not a VRam artifact there? A lot of forum issues for gfx tend to gravitate towards that answer. Video memory could be unstable or plain dying.

 

[cheesy999]

Today I have rebuilt my pc, and disassembled and reassembled the graphics card cooler, and tried the graphics card in another pc, unfortunately it is something physically wrong with the graphics card

The upside to this is when i took my cpu cooler off, i found out that the thermal paste on it had basically turned into a rock solid flake that wasn't doing anything, with a fresh load of mx2 on it it now idles at 30c and peaks at 50c in occt