- Aug 31, 2014
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Greetings everyone.
I've been using this 19' Dynex tv that I converted to a monitor for a little under 7 seven years now. I am using a dual monitor setup, the dynex being my primary with hdmi as the input, and dvi as the input for the second monitor. The card I'm using is an MSI R9 270x Gaming Edition. Just recently, my primary monitor(the dynex with hdmi) started acting up. For instance, I was streaming Skyrim a few days ago, and twice in a matter of 3 minutes, light blue streaks appeared on my screen for a split second, highlighting various parts of the game's landscape. Now i understand that this a telltale sign of gpu failure and overheating, but I quickly monitored my temps with afterburner after this happened, and I was peaking at 54c while in game. I resorted to numerous threads about the safe temp ranges for my specific card, and came to the conclusion that anything under 80c should in theory be fine. However, I am aware that this isn't always the case, and I've taken that into account. Now, while this did happen in game, i will also note that a few days prior to this incident, I had all of my inputs unplugged from both monitors, and these blue streaks and artifacts still showed up on my primary, without any inputs, and they lasted somewhat longer than the latter incident. So that's gotta mean something. ALSO, these streaks and artifacts have never once shown up on my second monitor. Which also leads me to wonder if maybe the hdmi port on my video card is going bad, considering the other port is a dvi port. I have yet to be able to do more testing, due to lack of resources, so tell me what you guys think.
I've been using this 19' Dynex tv that I converted to a monitor for a little under 7 seven years now. I am using a dual monitor setup, the dynex being my primary with hdmi as the input, and dvi as the input for the second monitor. The card I'm using is an MSI R9 270x Gaming Edition. Just recently, my primary monitor(the dynex with hdmi) started acting up. For instance, I was streaming Skyrim a few days ago, and twice in a matter of 3 minutes, light blue streaks appeared on my screen for a split second, highlighting various parts of the game's landscape. Now i understand that this a telltale sign of gpu failure and overheating, but I quickly monitored my temps with afterburner after this happened, and I was peaking at 54c while in game. I resorted to numerous threads about the safe temp ranges for my specific card, and came to the conclusion that anything under 80c should in theory be fine. However, I am aware that this isn't always the case, and I've taken that into account. Now, while this did happen in game, i will also note that a few days prior to this incident, I had all of my inputs unplugged from both monitors, and these blue streaks and artifacts still showed up on my primary, without any inputs, and they lasted somewhat longer than the latter incident. So that's gotta mean something. ALSO, these streaks and artifacts have never once shown up on my second monitor. Which also leads me to wonder if maybe the hdmi port on my video card is going bad, considering the other port is a dvi port. I have yet to be able to do more testing, due to lack of resources, so tell me what you guys think.
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