Recent content by daralzand

Tested another card fine. Playing BF4. Put the 580 back in and get the artifacts and dodgy text all over the place. How did this happen to a non overclocked card that has been stable for a year and only when running a kombustor stress test it breaks in seconds...

Lol dunno why i thought that screenshot was gonna capture the artifacting. Looking at it on my phone and its just a black desktop hahah.

Forgot to mention the repaste was 2 months ago.

My psu is Antec EA-750 Green. Tried unistalling MSI Kombuster and doing clean reinstall of drivers first thing. When i start up there is some matrix looking text and flashing gobbledygook text when booting. Ive switched out to an old gtx 260 and also 560ti. They both boot up fine with no...

Hi, I have a GTX 580 on the latest nvidia drivers. I installed MSI Kombustor and started up the default stress test in the settings that were there just after installing it. My card is at completely stock settings. Wanted to see what the temperature got up to. 2 seconds into the stress test i...

Anyone seen anyone else do this before?

My mum plays wow with a 8800GTX 1gb, the 9800 is a bit better. She has no lag at all on medium graphics. If you can get 8gb ram and an SSD you will be fine unless you want to play modern games at anything past the minimum graphics.

Most likely the PSU. Never heard of that brand.

Most likely bad GPU or PSU.

Take off the heatsink and fan and apply some good quality thermal goo to it. Also, check out what i have done here to cool the backside of my 680 http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3161242/cooling-backside-graphics-card-side-solder.html

Hi guys. First post. Was just wondering if anyone else thought of doing something like this for the backside of their graphics card. Basically i got 3x 80mm fans and bodged them together with zip/cable ties. Then i cable tied them to the back of the case. The 3 fans hover about an inch from...

anyone :(

hi guys. Operating System: Windows Vista 64x™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor...