should i buy new gfx card?
Ive been wondering, whether i should buy a new graphics card, because i have been having this problem for about a year with overheating issues. Im not ssure what to do, but ill give you some of the solutions i have tried and its failed:
Taking off computer side case
Cleaning out dust from gfx card and main fan
Blowing house fan into gfx card
Using rivatuner to turn up gfx card fan speed
Turned gfx down low in intensive gaming
Turned down resolution to minimum
Turned gfx fan speed to 100%
My computer, even in desktop, and idle it gets small artifacts. During gameplay for some of these types of games (FEAR, TIMESHIFT, RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2) i get shooting polygons out of characters and environments. I also get weird patterns from lighting in FEAR and coloured cubes on the screen also (Dark messiah especially, and also farcry)
Does this sound like a gfx card on its last legs, should i get a new gfx card, or can i still save this one?
Taking off computer’s side case, blowing house fan on to the gfx card, sounds to me like you are talking about a desktop ?? But you have posted your question under Laptops & Notebooks!.
If you see artifacts in games and your card heats up a lot looks like the heat sink of the card is not properly installed (not touching the GPU perhaps). Maybe the GPU or the VRAM is already damaged, Was it like this all along ? or did you notice it only recently ?
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