Mrchu_ said:
Weird?are you buying NEW or 2nd hand cards as i think either it a dodgy mainboard or PSU,that could be ruining graphics cards.Use an online psu calc to find out how much power is actually being pulled off that and how old it night be.Strained psu = unstable board bits
Always new and retail packaged and yeah ive run some of those psu calcs before and my psu is fine.
with the 6600gts i was getting problems that were common on several forums with the cards so i guess i was unlucky in that respect. still problems with 6600gts seem to be plentiful and not just with me.
as i said before the 6800nu was reliable for nearly a year before it just died on me. so if anything on my rig was unstable then i would be surprised that it lasted that long??
the new 6800gs card was artifacting from the first time i ran it so i suppose it was faulty out of the box as i think artifacts are a result of over stressed/naff vertex shaders or pixel pipelines and i wouldnt imagine that they would be effected by anything but the gfx card???? but dont quote me on that!!
its got to the point now that when i have to phone up for rma it takes over 5 mins to explain the whole story which is unneccisarily complicated due to non audited payments (problem at distributers end) that made proof of waranty very difficult and much more that i cant be bothered to discuss. It certainly feels like someone up there doesnt want me to have a working pc.
so maybe im just unlucky. on the plus side i havent been able to play games for nearly a month which has meant ive been able to get on with some more uni work