my rig is almost a year old and it's never had problems til around 2-3 months ago when my computer would start flickering, tearing, artifacts, and pixels showing up and usually ended in a hard lock while playing games so i would have to manually reboot..counter-strike 1.6/source seems to work without problems most of the time
i remember the problems started happening after the WoW 2.0 patch came out.
my specs:
ocz gamexstream 600w psu
gigabyte 965P-DS3
core 2 duo e6300 OC'd to ~2.4Ghz (i've tried running it with default bios and nothing changed)
have a scythe mine heatsink
2GB ddr2-800 in dual channel
radeon x1950pro with a zalman heatsink
250gb 16mb 7200rpm hdd
coretemp says my idle temp is 30-35 and speedfan says my idle temp is 20-25 and both read my load temps are 50-51
i've tried defragging my hard drive, updated my bios and all chipsets, my graphics drivers are the latest catalyst ones, ran orthos for 5 hours and memtest for 2 hours with no errors, and i also formatted and installed a fresh copy of windows and that didn't help either
my NB is hot to the touch not sure if that's alright or not..also all the programs i've tried to check my gpu temps says my card isn't supported but it never feels like it's overheating
is this most likely a faulty gfx card? the only spare gfx card i have is an agp and my mobo doesn't support it
edit: i tried the show 3D view and scan for artifacts with ati tools and as soon as it opens my computer freezes, goes black with a "no signal" message, then returns to normal
i remember the problems started happening after the WoW 2.0 patch came out.
my specs:
ocz gamexstream 600w psu
gigabyte 965P-DS3
core 2 duo e6300 OC'd to ~2.4Ghz (i've tried running it with default bios and nothing changed)
have a scythe mine heatsink
2GB ddr2-800 in dual channel
radeon x1950pro with a zalman heatsink
250gb 16mb 7200rpm hdd
coretemp says my idle temp is 30-35 and speedfan says my idle temp is 20-25 and both read my load temps are 50-51
i've tried defragging my hard drive, updated my bios and all chipsets, my graphics drivers are the latest catalyst ones, ran orthos for 5 hours and memtest for 2 hours with no errors, and i also formatted and installed a fresh copy of windows and that didn't help either
my NB is hot to the touch not sure if that's alright or not..also all the programs i've tried to check my gpu temps says my card isn't supported but it never feels like it's overheating
is this most likely a faulty gfx card? the only spare gfx card i have is an agp and my mobo doesn't support it
edit: i tried the show 3D view and scan for artifacts with ati tools and as soon as it opens my computer freezes, goes black with a "no signal" message, then returns to normal