- Sep 3, 2014
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Morning all,
I purchased an Asus HD 7970 DirectCU II TOP 3072MB GDDR5 Card for my new rig and I've been getting a range of different artifacts/crashes during various activities. I'm wondering if this is due to instability or a damaged card?
Here is a short list of problems:
1. Random crashes to a black screen, with audio still playing during a game. Cannot alt-tab, ctrl+alt+del or otherwise get out of this situation without a hard reboot.
2. Random crashes to a white/striped screen with aberrant/glitched audio during a game. Hard reboot is the only solution I've found to get out of this.
3. Random visual artifacts during gameplay on a range of games (but not all). Artifacts are not consistent with stress put on the GPU (i.e. low spec games will often show artifacts, whilst high-spec will not). Sometimes alt-tabbing out and back in resolves this, sometimes not. these do not affect gameplay/performance and are purely visual.
Here are a couple of example photos from World of Warcraft. Similar artifacts occur on Battelfield 4, Minecraft and a range of other games. smaller artifacts occasionally appear in other applications (i.e. Chrome, MS Office).
=http://imgur.com/a/nJbv3]
Can anybody give me any ideas on what this might be? Is it fixable? Or is the card physically damaged?
Thanks
I purchased an Asus HD 7970 DirectCU II TOP 3072MB GDDR5 Card for my new rig and I've been getting a range of different artifacts/crashes during various activities. I'm wondering if this is due to instability or a damaged card?
Here is a short list of problems:
1. Random crashes to a black screen, with audio still playing during a game. Cannot alt-tab, ctrl+alt+del or otherwise get out of this situation without a hard reboot.
2. Random crashes to a white/striped screen with aberrant/glitched audio during a game. Hard reboot is the only solution I've found to get out of this.
3. Random visual artifacts during gameplay on a range of games (but not all). Artifacts are not consistent with stress put on the GPU (i.e. low spec games will often show artifacts, whilst high-spec will not). Sometimes alt-tabbing out and back in resolves this, sometimes not. these do not affect gameplay/performance and are purely visual.
Here are a couple of example photos from World of Warcraft. Similar artifacts occur on Battelfield 4, Minecraft and a range of other games. smaller artifacts occasionally appear in other applications (i.e. Chrome, MS Office).
=http://imgur.com/a/nJbv3]
Can anybody give me any ideas on what this might be? Is it fixable? Or is the card physically damaged?
Thanks
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