Is my videocard damaged?

[karma211]

Hi guys

I recently overclocked my Xpertvision 8500GT Sonic GDDR3 card. After days of carefully monitoring and adjusting clock values i finally found a stable o/c value. Safe temps, no artifacts. Got some great results. Believe it or not got a 15 fps boost in crysis, playing on all high except for shader and object quality on medium.

The problem i started having a few days ago was that games started to look very aliased (jagged). Even with anti-aliasing on it doesn't seem to smooth out until 4x or 8x. I reverted the clocks back to stock settings but all my games still look very aliased. I even tried underclocking, but still the same problem.


Here are the clock values:

Stock: core-600 shader-1200 memory-600 Temp: 51c idle 62c load

o/c: core-725 shader-1450 memory-725 Temp: 51c idle 65c load

 

[overshocked]

Doesnt seem damaged because just overclocking it wont really damage the card as long as you didnt reais the voltage much on the cards.

Is it every game that is like that?

 

[shubham1401]

Try reinstalling the graphic drivers........

 

[jitpublisher]

The game didn't auto reset the resolution to like 800x600, or something even lower did it? I can see that with the video card, if you used the games auto-setup features for detail level, the game would surely turn everything way, way down, especially the resolution.

 

[karma211]

Yes overshocked, every game is like that. The games didn't reset the settings because i check them before i play every game.
I reinstalled the drivers. I even did a format and reinstall of windows. The problem is still there.
I didn't adjust the voltage at all, only the clocks.

 

[overshocked]

I Have no idea what the problem is dude.

There are two things that woul a death like that.

1. The heat killed it and this is obviously not the case there.

2. Th voltage killed it and that is not the case either

 

[shubham1401]

Well dunno if this will work.
But Reinstall our OS.It might help............

 

[overshocked]

Well dunno if this will work.
But Reinstall our OS.It might help............

He already did.

I reinstalled the drivers. I even did a format and reinstall of windows..

 

[karma211]

Well today i tried playing some video games and now i notice some flickering going on. There is also this horizontal line in the middle of the screen whenever it flickers. Almost as if the screen is divided into two halves. At first i thought it was my refresh rate, but that is set to 60 (which is the only rate my monitor supports), and i also used the override option in dxdiag to force 60 hertz in all my 3d applications.

 

[overshocked]

have you tried reseting all your settings to default in your driver options?

 

[karma211]

In the nvidia control panel all my settings are default. Is there somewhere else i should do that as well?

 

[overshocked]

MAn dude that is really crazy.

Do you have another video card so that you could make sure that the GPU is the problem?

If not, the next thingi would do is mak sure your case isnt close to your monitor, as i have had problems with electrical interferance that leads to some crazy stuff being displayd on the monitor

If that doesnt work would do is unplug everything except the cpu then blow it all out then replug it back in. just to make sure.

 

[karma211]

I have an old radeon x1300. I will try it in my system and then post the results.

 

[overshocked]

ok...is your case close to your monitor?

If so move it away and see if that helps.

 

[karma211]

Well i tried the radeon and it's the same problem. So that rules out the graphics card problem.
It seems my monitor is the problem. Now there's a high pitched noise coming from it. I guess it's dying. It was getting very dark anyways.

My case is pretty close to my monitor. It's just a lil bit below the monitor to the right side of my computer desk. Probably like a forearm's length.

 

[overshocked]

ok.... well move the pc as far away as possible.

Also do you have high powered speakers sitting my the monitor?

 

[karma211]

My speakers are right beside my monitor on both sides. Only a few inches away. They aren't high powered though (i don't think). Do you think that is what's causing it?

 

[overshocked]

Many speakers have large magnets in them. Move your speakers and your computer as far away as possible. if possible put your computer under a desk.

 

[karma211]

Ok. I will try that and see if any improvement

 

[overshocked]

sweet, waiting for the result.

 

[karma211]

I tested COD4 and the aliasing isn't so bad. Now it just looks like a bunch of horizontal lines running across the screen. Like scan lines. They are more visible when i'm standing still. When i move they are almost not visible at all.

 

[overshocked]

how far is your case away now? IS it under the desk? what about your speakers?

 

[karma211]

I moved them as far away from monitor as they could go. To the end of the wire, maybe a metre or so. I also made sure there are no other electronics close to it.
I just really think the monitor is at it's end. It's an old crt. About 5 or 6 years old.

 

[overshocked]

LOL... the speakers have probably been eating at it for a long time.

That happend to by old CRT. Its time for an upgrade dude

 

[karma211]

Yeah. Started looking at some LCD monitors already.
Thank you for all the help and patience man. I really appreciate it.