Hi,
I have been having some odd issues with my 5970 lately. The other day, when un-installing the 10.5 catalyst drivers a whole bunch of red/grey lines showed up on the screen during un-install and I had to do a hard-reboot. The card is extremely sensitive to OC's and even just upping the clocks from 725/1000 to 800/1150 even with voltage changes will send the card to display grey lines all over my screen. Sometimes the OC will work great at say... 850/1200 and other times as soon as I change the OC or shortly thereafter it will show grey lines and I will have to hard-reboot. I had a "Stable" overclock for quite some time at 810/1150 and I had played games just fine for many, many days and also ran Furmark for ~15 minutes with no issues. Tried the same overclock again just the other day and the grey lines showed up.
Is my card failing perhaps? How can I test this?
I was unable to control fan speed when I got the card (Asus 5970HD) so I used Afterburner to control fan speeds. Recently, the shader clocks as well as the fan speed have greyed out and I can no longer adjust them. I know shader clocks move up with core/mem but the fact that the bar was green for both shader clocks and fan speed for months and now has suddenly greyed out is a bit worrisome.
Is there a good way to test to see if the card is failing or not? I am on the verge of RMA'ing because it just does not feel like it is performing to its full potential at the moment.
Thanks
-J
I have been having some odd issues with my 5970 lately. The other day, when un-installing the 10.5 catalyst drivers a whole bunch of red/grey lines showed up on the screen during un-install and I had to do a hard-reboot. The card is extremely sensitive to OC's and even just upping the clocks from 725/1000 to 800/1150 even with voltage changes will send the card to display grey lines all over my screen. Sometimes the OC will work great at say... 850/1200 and other times as soon as I change the OC or shortly thereafter it will show grey lines and I will have to hard-reboot. I had a "Stable" overclock for quite some time at 810/1150 and I had played games just fine for many, many days and also ran Furmark for ~15 minutes with no issues. Tried the same overclock again just the other day and the grey lines showed up.
Is my card failing perhaps? How can I test this?
I was unable to control fan speed when I got the card (Asus 5970HD) so I used Afterburner to control fan speeds. Recently, the shader clocks as well as the fan speed have greyed out and I can no longer adjust them. I know shader clocks move up with core/mem but the fact that the bar was green for both shader clocks and fan speed for months and now has suddenly greyed out is a bit worrisome.
Is there a good way to test to see if the card is failing or not? I am on the verge of RMA'ing because it just does not feel like it is performing to its full potential at the moment.
Thanks
-J