Gfx card died...Need New

[Seedler]

Yes it was overclocked for a month or so, then I dropped settings to stock because I didn't need the nosier fan/marginal performance boost when playing "old" games like HL2 and UT2004.

But just 2 days ago, when I started PVK (a HL2 mod), the game crashed almost instantly with messed up colour lines on the screen. After reboot, the same thing happened again when I tried to start any sort of 3-D application.

However 2-D applications were fine for windows usage, so I didn't worry too much about it and decided to leave the problem till the weekend.

Then today when I got home and turned on comp, this happened:





Basically random lines/dots decided to arrange themselves on my screen

Windows does start, but everything is DEAD slow. For example right clicking and the menu would pop up 3 seconds later. Closing Firefox and going back to desktop takes about another 5 secs. And when I ran PC probe,RAM, CPU, and mobo seemed fine so it had to be the gfx card. So I used dxdiag and under display it said my video memory was not applicable and that Direct3D and AGP texture acceleration were non-existent. Bad/Corrupted memory? Most likely.

I did try underclocking the card, which yielded no improvements. Anyone know how to isolate the bad memory and fix the card?

Btw I'm still using the same gfx card, and it took about 30 secs to scroll from the top of this tread to the bottom

[S!X]

That doesn't look healthy at all

[Shiranai_Baka]

Holy crap, that is one of the worst artifactings(?) I've seen in a while. Gives me the goosebumps. Don't you have a warranty on your card?

[Seedler]

Nope, I don't have the warranty anymore?

Just ordered an eVGA 7900GS KO edition tho, for $169.99. Sweet deal.

[Colt Seevers]

Nae luck!

I have had similar display issues, I think it's corrupted memory that causes those lines... stupid ATI Sapphire piece of shit. Won't be using them again.

[S!X]

Nope, I don't have the warranty anymore?

Just ordered an eVGA 7900GS KO edition tho, for $169.99. Sweet deal.

Good stuff!

[Ludvig]

Will you power supply follow ?

[Seedler]

Will you power supply follow ?

485W Twin 12V Rail at 32A should suffice.

[Ludvig]

How many devices on usb ,Seedler ?

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2835&p=12

Sounds very good anyways !

[Seedler]

Thx for the benchmarks! I think I should be fine.

Only a mouse, a wireless G adapter, and a webcam on USB. The occasional jump drives as well, but as I'm not planning on any major upgrades after this one I should be fine in terms of my decent PSU.