Graphics card overheating or ...?

[[DnC]]

I got around to doing a couple of things suggested.

Cleaning the case didn't help much, perhaps made it a little bit cooler. But the artifacts are still there.

I saw that you can test changes with Coolbits before actually changing them. So I fiddled around a bit with the core clock frequency and memory clock frequency. However every time I get this message -> The test failed to run at the selected clock frequencies. Please lower your settings and try again.

I guess this message pops up because the frequencies are locked, because I underclocked by quite a bit. Each time a bit lower to no effect (I underclocked to the standard 7800GTX frequencies and lower).

My connection is a bit borked, so I can't download ASUS SmartDoctor which also has the feature of setting clock frequencies, unless I want keep my pc on for a day or so (it's that slow now!). Perhaps it needs the ASUS software in order for the frequencies to be changed...?

My temperature ingame doesn't exceed 60 degrees celcius. Usually it's somewhere between 50 and 55. My core slowdown threshold is 115 degrees celcius. So how could it be overheating?

ASUS overclocked the core clock frequency from 430MHz to 486MHz and the memory clock frequency from 1200MHz to 1350MHz. Is that such an incremental increase?

After I've tried ASUS SmartDoctor I'll e-mail ASUS and NVIDIA about the problem and hope they can help me.

I really hope it's just a driver problem.

[LeftEyeNine]

Yes, these increases can be the reason to your problem. Draw them back to their standard values.

Have you tried RivaTuner to underclock the values to their default ?

[AussieGiant]

Hi DnC,

Honestly I would contact ASUS and be looking to have them send a new card out. The tempuratures are not a problem given the numbers you have stated.

How old is the card and machine?