video card permanent damage?

[imlittlev]

i know its been a long while since i've posted here, but i'm curious of other's thoughts.
radeon x1950xt 256mb. arctic accelero s1 vga cooler, with the optional fans.
but in the past couple of months, i've been getting artifacts...



its not even hot!

[WalkinTarget]

You may want to do a couple things in the BIOS to see if that may help:

Turn off AGP Fast Writes (you can do this from within CCC as well)
Bump up your AGP Aperture size to the next size up (ie: 128->256, 256->512.

Does it happen in 2D as well as 3D, or only in games ?

[imlittlev]

ah, but she be PCI express!!!

Artifacts occur in all 3d games. I can confirm Crysis, CoD: united offensive, Company of heroes, all source-engine based games, and supreme commander. Those are all the games I have played For a while.

[Sirex]

im my 1900xtx does that as well with cod4, not sure about ww thou.

Happens when its too hot, check your heat sink for dust... clean out those anti-dust guards on the case etc.

Know after i do that its ok again...

[{CLR}geneSW]

Curious, can you use Rivaturner to turn up your fan speeds? Or are they already at 90%.

[imlittlev]

As I posted earlier, I am using the Arctic Accelero S1 cooler, it should be more than adequate. I know dang well its clean because I just switched to a much better case. Besides, you saw the screen shot. that card was running 40 - 45 C... while playing. That should be well within acceptable temperature range!