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CPU: Intel i5-2500
Mobo: ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
PSU: Corsair CX500
I've been using a Radeon HD 5830 for the past two-and-half years. It was meant for my gaming and video editing, but the card wasn't really ever pushed to its limits. There was no instance of graphics crashing or overheating.
In the meantime, I discontinued using a UPS sometime last year. It kept tripping off occasionally, and it became a big deal to have it working normally after a powercut. The electricity supply is not so erratic, and hasn't damaged anything in this house.
A few weeks back, I returned after a month's vacation, to boot the system. It booted into Windows, and that is when I saw a few dots starting to appear. The dots spread in a few minutes of usage. Then, the screen tore up and froze. Reebooting would not help - the tearing was too much, and after a while the card stopped sending any display to the monitor (monitor would fall into standby). The card would give a glimmer of hope when it would output normally in 1 try out of 20, but that's it. It's as good as dead.
Since, I had been relying on the inbuilt HD2000 graphics on my CPU. It worked fined on lesser loads. But anytime I opened a graphic-hungry app like Photoshop or Sony Vegas, it would trip the Intel Graphics adapter, which would either reset with a warning message, or simply lock the system forcing a restart. Even Google Maps, which uses OpenGL would do that.
Monitoring the temps, I couldn't find an instance where it would've gone beyond 52C.
Two days back, I replaced the HD 5830 with a nVidia GTX 650 Ti. Power-wise, the 650 Ti draws lesser power than the 5830, and has a lower TDP, with a single external power connector needed (5830 needed 2). The card worked perfect upon install. However, into two days of use, and during normal browsing the screen froze. That's when the graphics driver started crashing. Inside a coupla restarts, the worst happened - screen started tearing. Now this card is also unusable like the previous one. Dead again.
To eliminate external factors, I got the UPS fixed and its back on the grid. One change I noticed that the onboard HD Graphics are crashing a tenth of the time than they used to. The 650 Ti also started working fine soon as the UPS was installed.
I though the problem was fixed by the simple addition of a UPS, but the screen again tore up (and became the same condition) after an hour's use. So I fell back to onboard HD graphics, which work very slow but stable.
Before I purchase another graphics card, I need to figure out what's wrong. Anybody have clues which component could be faulty here? GPU? Motherboard? PSU?
500W should be enough for my machine (TPU requirement adds up to ~300W); even the PSU is 80+ certified.
CPU: Intel i5-2500
Mobo: ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
PSU: Corsair CX500
I've been using a Radeon HD 5830 for the past two-and-half years. It was meant for my gaming and video editing, but the card wasn't really ever pushed to its limits. There was no instance of graphics crashing or overheating.
In the meantime, I discontinued using a UPS sometime last year. It kept tripping off occasionally, and it became a big deal to have it working normally after a powercut. The electricity supply is not so erratic, and hasn't damaged anything in this house.
A few weeks back, I returned after a month's vacation, to boot the system. It booted into Windows, and that is when I saw a few dots starting to appear. The dots spread in a few minutes of usage. Then, the screen tore up and froze. Reebooting would not help - the tearing was too much, and after a while the card stopped sending any display to the monitor (monitor would fall into standby). The card would give a glimmer of hope when it would output normally in 1 try out of 20, but that's it. It's as good as dead.
Since, I had been relying on the inbuilt HD2000 graphics on my CPU. It worked fined on lesser loads. But anytime I opened a graphic-hungry app like Photoshop or Sony Vegas, it would trip the Intel Graphics adapter, which would either reset with a warning message, or simply lock the system forcing a restart. Even Google Maps, which uses OpenGL would do that.
Monitoring the temps, I couldn't find an instance where it would've gone beyond 52C.
Two days back, I replaced the HD 5830 with a nVidia GTX 650 Ti. Power-wise, the 650 Ti draws lesser power than the 5830, and has a lower TDP, with a single external power connector needed (5830 needed 2). The card worked perfect upon install. However, into two days of use, and during normal browsing the screen froze. That's when the graphics driver started crashing. Inside a coupla restarts, the worst happened - screen started tearing. Now this card is also unusable like the previous one. Dead again.
To eliminate external factors, I got the UPS fixed and its back on the grid. One change I noticed that the onboard HD Graphics are crashing a tenth of the time than they used to. The 650 Ti also started working fine soon as the UPS was installed.
I though the problem was fixed by the simple addition of a UPS, but the screen again tore up (and became the same condition) after an hour's use. So I fell back to onboard HD graphics, which work very slow but stable.
Before I purchase another graphics card, I need to figure out what's wrong. Anybody have clues which component could be faulty here? GPU? Motherboard? PSU?
500W should be enough for my machine (TPU requirement adds up to ~300W); even the PSU is 80+ certified.
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