Another humped 9800 Pro?

[old.user4556]

All,

First a screeny:

My previous Powercolor 9800 Pro died after six months which overclockers replaced. However, my replacement has started playing up already with artifacting beyond belief in games. The difference between this new card and my old card is that the new card has Hynix ram (2.8 ns iirc) and I can cure the artifacting by de-clocking the memory from it's standard 340 MHz to ~310 MHz. Obviously this is far from ideal and it suggests some fuckerage relating to the ram. The card hasn't been overclocked previously.

Anyone seen this before, or know of a solution?

Specs:

Powercolor 9800 Pro 128 Mb
Abit AN7 Motherboard
1 Gb Corsair Ram
Athlon 3200+
Windows XP Pro, patched to the hilt

Solutions tried:

Updating catalyst from 4.6 to 4.7, no change.
Down-clocking the ram, seems to cure it.
Upping the AGP voltage, no change.

Cheers

G

 

[Clown]

What AA/AF settings do you use in Battlefield 1942?

 

[throdgrain]

Thats exactly the stuff I had with my card Big G, which is the same as yours. Presently it will get worser and worse until you cant see anything.
I for one will never buy another Powercolor product.

 

[old.user4556]

Hi Clown,

I have AA and AF set to "application preference", or effectively "off". It may be worthwhile pointing out that this artifacting happens in all games, and I even get artifcating on the windows desktop in addition to 3D.

G

 

[old.user4556]

Thats exactly the stuff I had with my card Big G, which is the same as yours. Presently it will get worser and worse until you cant see anything.
I for one will never buy another Powercolor product.

Ugh

Did you get shot of your card in the end Throddy? I'm close to saying "fuck it" and purchase an X800 based card.

G

 

[throdgrain]

Overclockers gave me a new card, fair play to em, though how long it will last is anyones guess...

 

[JBP|]

what version cats are you using?

i had similar problems with BF:V with grafix settings on full wellie (9800XT)

try using 4.5 cats

 

[old.user4556]

I mentioned that I was on 4.6 and updated to 4.7 without change.

Edit: I'll try 4.5s then.

Gah, really cba going through another RMA.

 

[throdgrain]

Forget it m8, its fucked imo

 

[Danya]

Hi Clown,

I have AA and AF set to "application preference", or effectively "off". It may be worthwhile pointing out that this artifacting happens in all games, and I even get artifcating on the windows desktop in addition to 3D.

G

If the desktop is corrupt the card is fucked.