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Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 16 May 2010, 18:00 ]
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so...yesterday my video card start make some noises (my guess is that fan touch "something" inside) so I took my copmuter, open it..and start cleaning: proc fan, power source, and video card, from all I think I get enough soil to put a flower to grow. Result, a lot more silence now, but video card still make some noise and beside I can barely get 30-40 fps (from a amost constant 100-80) in tf2. Not only low fps but is also shuttering (if is the right word).Last two weeks my screens (2) go black, no image (only sound and after few seconds from 3-6 the come back in normal way. After that my windows pop up a baloon and tell me that my nvidia driver has failed. The driver was installed months ago.. so, did I fucked something by opening my hardware or my video card just decide to put me to some spend some money?

I cecked drivers, all my hardware works fine according to windows...reinstal windows even and the problem still here.
Help :cry:

ah, and my sistem: Win 7, DuoCore 6600, 4 gb ram and video GeForce 7950GT
Author:  [SpA]Voegelchen [ 16 May 2010, 18:50 ]
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The only way of suddenly constantly decreased FPS in your case I can think of is overheating and therefore automatic underclocking of the hardware.

Check your temperatures of your GPU and CPU under load. Everest, GPU-Z, Speedfan and other tools allow that. Additionally those tools allow to monitor your MHZ and other specifics of your processors. Check if they change under load.
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 16 May 2010, 21:07 ]
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From a few days back i have an issue were i keep getting FPS drops when a new round has started. I'll have to reboot to fix it. Sometimes it just works fine. I've also had 2 driver crashes while using the steam overlay...
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 16 May 2010, 21:42 ]
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Oh btw BAM, you might want to re-insert the card into the slot or in a different slot if possible.
Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 17 May 2010, 08:28 ]
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birdie, I dlded GPU-Z, run it and see some numbers and red things... here is screens, I have no ideea what I should see here :roll:

and Saint, I will try that (I alreday take it out and put it back like 5 times by now,I 'll ceck if I can change slot)

Thx guys :)

PS: I also installed Everest and Speedfan but I/m totally lost :|, I don't understant

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Author:  [SpA]Johnny [ 17 May 2010, 09:42 ]
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This kind of problems are the worst and the most annoying :( . At least for me when my video card died i saw vertical blue lines all over the screen and windows wouldn't load anymore. How long do you have the card ? ( the hardware have a average life in most cases the warranty time ) my died after 2 years of use. What video driver version are you using that "nvidia driver has failed" is sometimes driver related but after after reading more carefully i remember that :" my screens (2) go black, no image (only sound and after few seconds from 3-6 the come back in normal way. After that my windows pop up a baloon and tell me that my nvidia driver has failed." these are thing that were happening to me too months before it died completely :shock:

197.57 that's the latest driver right? Have you tried a older driver maybe the 196.21?
Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 17 May 2010, 10:21 ]
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video card is 4 yers old by now..I think is pretty old tho :P
I didn't try with older drivers (precedent one, new one and beta one)
Author:  [SpA]Voegelchen [ 17 May 2010, 14:29 ]
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Well Bam check if the clock speeds under load match what your card should deliver. If its a standard model a quick google will give you the numbers.

IF these shots are made under load (tiny load...eh? 120mb memory usage is not much) then the temperatures are okay.
Author:  [SpA]Minimoose! [ 17 May 2010, 18:26 ]
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66 C on 0% load is pretty high :| Although, some cards do run that hot
Author:  [SpA]Voegelchen [ 17 May 2010, 18:32 ]
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Oh right those are idle numbers. Yes indeed then 66°C is allready high. But that could be a normal temperature for this gpu. I dont know.

Most video cards idle around 50°C (+-10) and throttle themself down above 100°C (again +-10).
Author:  Phenomenon [ 17 May 2010, 19:33 ]
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Dude! You should buy a new card/pc :D
Author:  [SpA]Minimoose! [ 17 May 2010, 22:51 ]
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[SpA]Voegelchen wrote:
Oh right those are idle numbers. Yes indeed then 66°C is allready high. But that could be a normal temperature for this gpu. I dont know.

Most video cards idle around 50°C (+-10) and throttle themself down above 100°C (again +-10).
Yeah mines like 50 idle, 38 ambient and 80-85 load, those new GTX480s get to 100 but that's ridiculous, don't know of many cards which do that.
Author:  [SpA]Voegelchen [ 17 May 2010, 23:45 ]
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My old 8800GT SLI had 124°C peak temperature. If I imagine that one of those cards needed more power than my whole pc now...uff! I feel like all. Bunch of faggots now :?
Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 19 May 2010, 09:19 ]
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ok...i decide to fuck it and buy a new card...
after some research if come to this two:
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/ ... rview.aspx
and
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/geforce_gtx_260_uk.html

...problems: I don't really trust ati (I have some bad memories with it) and nvidia is huge (as size) but I think I can manage to make room...I think

and for those less noobs than me maybe they can tell me if my mb is ok for any of those cards
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15065/e ... nglish.pdf
Author:  [SpA]Johnny [ 19 May 2010, 09:46 ]
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Be sure to have a good PSU with at least 500W if you want to buy any of those cards. :) The 5770 has directx 11 and from what i can see it's cheaper then the Gtx 260 and i think performance wise there the same in the end it comes down to what you like ati or nvidia :) .If you go for the GTX 260 be sure to have enough space ( it has 26 cm ) i had a surprise and i ended up cutting in my case to make room. :ugly: And you should consider upgrading your CPU later on i think it's going to bottleneck your new video card.
If you motherboard has PCI Express 2.0 x16 then it's ok.
Author:  [SpA]Voegelchen [ 19 May 2010, 10:27 ]
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Both will work with your mainboard. Both cards will use 150 to 200 watts of power. So check what your other components need. A cheap 600 watts PSU may fail while a quality 300 watts rated PSU will succeed. Who knows :-)

And DON'T buy the reference design (as pictured) from those cards. There are plenty of custom designs with better and more silent cooling, less power draw etc.
Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 19 May 2010, 16:21 ]
Post subject:  Re: Video card fail?
ok guys: I listen to my soul and take this one: http://www.leadtek.com/eng/3d_graphic/o ... id=1&act=1
thx for help :18

now I only hope will not take a week to have it :|
Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 19 May 2010, 17:50 ]
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your graphics card sucks bam. :twisted:
Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 19 May 2010, 19:42 ]
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:-14 ...
Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 19 May 2010, 20:13 ]
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:5: love ya
Author:  [SpA]BAM [ 20 May 2010, 07:18 ]
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:-11
Author:  [SpA]Blackhawk [ 05 Jun 2010, 13:37 ]
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Summer time is also GPU fail time. :71
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