Do you think my card is about to die?

Hi everyoone!

I have an XFX 7900GT card (the T71G UDE7 edition if anyone cares) factory clocked at 520MHz core (showing up as 516) and 750MHz memory (showing up as 747). Recently I started noticing a little bit of artifacting in Guild Wars. Also, I installed WOW and when I play it I get quite a bit of artifacts/after a while the screen goes blank and then shows and image again every 5 seconds (even if I quite the game) until I restart the computer.

I checked the temperature of the card (with the nTune meter that nVidia now provides) and it doesn't go about 62 when playing WOW.

Do you think that my card is dying on me or is this some software issue? (I have the latest driver from nVidias website for my OS, which is WinXP SP2 32bit).

Thanks a lot for any help!

check if it works at stock clocks, because overtime trasistors need a higher "drive" power to switch, so even factory overclocked models may not keep their overclock for ever.

Sounds like you have more than a few problems there:

could be corrupted drivers:
1) Un-install all your video drivers , use driver cleaner to remove all traces of driver
2) check your cpu fan make sure its clean no dust behind the blades on heatsink fins
3) check fan on your video card if it has one, pullout video card reseat it.
4) check the capacitors on the video card and your motherboard look for puffing out tops
5) re-install your chipset drivers to newest versions

could be your cpu is over heating, best to check the temps while its running if its running hot try re greasing your fan and remount.

Also a bad power supply can cause this problem if it has bad caps it could be leaking ac.

Well, I did all of the above and nothing helped. So, I decided to try and see if it really is the card by running another graphically much more intensive game: Oblivion. I had everyhting set on high at 1680*1050 (or whatever that widescreen resolution is) and it was running perfectly smooth inside and outside! No artifacts, no flickering, absolutely nothing. So, me is thinking that this is some other kind of problem, and I might have to contact Blizzard

true dat...when i installed bioshock recently (great game ) it told me to "update" to these new drivers.. all these drivers did was take away ALL of the software features, make games crash, and give me blue screens. 94.24 are the best out right now for the 7series IMO.

Oops. I didn't look closely enough.

Anywaste, the stock core clock speed of the 7900GT is 450GHz.