I've been having troubles with this build.
Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB Kingston Ram
MSI Neo 2 FR
Sound Blaster XFi XtremeGamer
Galaxy 8800GT
550W Ultra XConnect 2 PSU
I've been having troubles, the graphics driver resets at random intervals, causing some games the can't recover to crash. I was worried that it wasn't the card and I was having a heat problem, or a PSU/Voltage problem, I have tried about 4 different drivers. (Current stable 169's, 2 174's (including the most recent)) And right now to test voltages and temps I have 2 instances of prime95 running (one for each core.) and the ATI tool stability test. Voltages by the mobo sensors have remained stable. Temperatures have leveled out at 58CPU and 84GPU, and it's been running stable. No glitches or anything. I've been going around checking for new drivers/bios for other components. But the GFX driver is the only thing with issues. And usually only in full screen games. DX or OpenGL doesn't matter. I'm worried that the RAM on this card is bad. And extended gameplay/filling the buffers for fullscreen reveals this issue since the Entire System stress test is pointing away from a power or heat issue. I'm going to underclock the RAM on the VidCard by 100mhz to see if that does it.
Any thoughts. I've tried everything, other than this, the build is stable.
Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB Kingston Ram
MSI Neo 2 FR
Sound Blaster XFi XtremeGamer
Galaxy 8800GT
550W Ultra XConnect 2 PSU
I've been having troubles, the graphics driver resets at random intervals, causing some games the can't recover to crash. I was worried that it wasn't the card and I was having a heat problem, or a PSU/Voltage problem, I have tried about 4 different drivers. (Current stable 169's, 2 174's (including the most recent)) And right now to test voltages and temps I have 2 instances of prime95 running (one for each core.) and the ATI tool stability test. Voltages by the mobo sensors have remained stable. Temperatures have leveled out at 58CPU and 84GPU, and it's been running stable. No glitches or anything. I've been going around checking for new drivers/bios for other components. But the GFX driver is the only thing with issues. And usually only in full screen games. DX or OpenGL doesn't matter. I'm worried that the RAM on this card is bad. And extended gameplay/filling the buffers for fullscreen reveals this issue since the Entire System stress test is pointing away from a power or heat issue. I'm going to underclock the RAM on the VidCard by 100mhz to see if that does it.
Any thoughts. I've tried everything, other than this, the build is stable.