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]

Yeah man no prob.

I live for the questions that nowon else can answer 😉

Look at the asus monitors. They are really cheap and high quality.

 

[shubham1401]

It's an old crt. About 5 or 6 years old.

Mine is a 9 year old 17inch CRT(secondary rig) still works fine.

 

[Mugz]

I've seen that before as well, also due to magnetic interference. LCDs seem to be immune to that, at least... or at least highly resistant.

It might be repairable, but with the LCD prices nowadays, may as well get one.

re Old CRT monitors...

I've used a 15 year old (17") monitor since 1994. It was ____ING expensive back then.

This CRT is on my test bench, still works sorta fine. Just sometimes it's like someone's frobbing the brightness/contrast setting. Usually happens when it gets tapped or otherwise picks up heavy vibration. Probably a dry joint inside or (just maybe) it's OLD!

 

[shubham1401]

Hey pls tell me one thing.
My CRT monitor makes some sparks inside in the left side where there is kinda big heatsink.
One of my speakers are near it.
iS that causing the problem.

I got it fixed once but it has started again.

 

[Mugz]

Replace that monitor. One of the components on that heatsink is probably leaking current to ground - and quite a bit of it if you're seeing sparks. This is going to end in a loud BANG! and possibly some electricity going to the wrong places - like your GFX card - resulting in an expensive story.

 

[shubham1401]

I will change it as soon as possible.Actually I am already looking for a good LCD but the pocket is all empty.Lol.