Back in July of 08 I bought a PC from a company called Cyber Power PC. For the first 6 months everything ran great. Then I got a problem where I started seeing tiny blue dots all over my screen, be browsing the web or even on the task bar. I'd also see dots in the middle of any video I was watching. When it comes to playing games, there would be wholes in the middle of the textures while in other parts it would seem like somone grabbed a pixel and stretched it accross the screen.
After the first time it happen I drove all the way up to where the company that made my pc is located and in the end they simply replaced the two video cards for new ones of the same model. I'm running on two ATI Radeon 3800 series (512mb each). Yet now about 5 months later, the same problem has started again. It's not like I'm stressing my maching out with games like Crysis running at max. The games are normally play are Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.
I think I still have a waranty with the company that sold me the pc, but I feel that all that's going to happen in the end is that they'll replace it with the same cards and that this problem is going to happen once again in the 5-6 months.
I wanted to underclock my video card, unfortunately ATI Catalyst won't give me that option (it's all greyed out) and if I try downloading any 3rd party software they too don't have the option of underclocking my graphics cards.
So at this point I don't know what to do really. I was thinking of maybe getting a new video card somewhere else like on newegg.com but I don't know which card there to get would be of at least the power of what I have now or better, and if doing that would make the problem go away in the first place at all.
After the first time it happen I drove all the way up to where the company that made my pc is located and in the end they simply replaced the two video cards for new ones of the same model. I'm running on two ATI Radeon 3800 series (512mb each). Yet now about 5 months later, the same problem has started again. It's not like I'm stressing my maching out with games like Crysis running at max. The games are normally play are Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.
I think I still have a waranty with the company that sold me the pc, but I feel that all that's going to happen in the end is that they'll replace it with the same cards and that this problem is going to happen once again in the 5-6 months.
I wanted to underclock my video card, unfortunately ATI Catalyst won't give me that option (it's all greyed out) and if I try downloading any 3rd party software they too don't have the option of underclocking my graphics cards.
So at this point I don't know what to do really. I was thinking of maybe getting a new video card somewhere else like on newegg.com but I don't know which card there to get would be of at least the power of what I have now or better, and if doing that would make the problem go away in the first place at all.
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