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Those symptoms usually occur when overheating a card. So perhaps dust?

Have you checked with a tool that measures temperature?

You could also try downclocking your card, if it's possible on your video card... Well, only if the problem is temperature related.

Or is it like... permanently broken? :(

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It's a three or so year old 8800GT, it was beyond its normal lifespan already. It used to get really hot, like 95C, without artifacting or crashing or anything, and I dusted it and installed Nvidia software to automatically adjust fan speeds based on temp so it hasn't broken 85C in months, with 80C its stable at load temp after the fan kicked up to 100% (I game with RealTemp running, it's set to sound an alarm (sounds like the Star Trek Enterprise enemy ship alarm :v ) when it goes over 90C). It was perfectly fine yesterday, and then today while I was exploring Nehrim: Edge of Fate (like 8 or 9 hours into it) suddenly the entire screen turned purple and covered in artifacts and it crashed. Trying to troubleshoot it, it would artifact and freeze earlier and earlier. At one point I saw a bluescreen (which got artifacted) saying something about a driver caught in an infinite loop. Eventually it would artifact and freeze right after booting into windows. Taking the card out and going to onboard video made the issue go away instantly, even though my onboard video uses the exact same drivers. So yeah, it's dead. :(

Ordered this as a replacement, because FUCK if I'm going to miss Fallout: New Vegas.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102855

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Got my new 4670. It came preattached to an Artic Cooler GPU cooler. The box also had a CG anime lady with visible nipples poking under her shirt, to further emphasize the coldness. :P The ATI Overdrive portion of the Catalyst suite claims it was 38C right after I closed Crysis to check temps. So far I can't find any better way to do that, Realtemp is ignoring it.

So far performance seems pretty good. FRAPs says Crysis (of course I tested with Crysis) is running like 4-5FPS slower than previous (18-19FPS, from 22-24), but it actually feels smoother. Nehrim: Edge of Fate also feels smoother (FRAPs says 25-30FPS for this one).

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Got my new 4670. It came preattached to an Artic Cooler GPU cooler. The box also had a CG anime lady with visible nipples poking under her shirt, to further emphasize the coldness. :P The ATI Overdrive portion of the Catalyst suite claims it was 38C right after I closed Crysis to check temps. So far I can't find any better way to do that, Realtemp is ignoring it.

So far performance seems pretty good. FRAPs says Crysis (of course I tested with Crysis) is running like 4-5FPS slower than previous (18-19FPS, from 22-24), but it actually feels smoother. Nehrim: Edge of Fate also feels smoother (FRAPs says 25-30FPS for this one).

make sure you install the latest beta fusionware drivers (v15.6, NOT v15.6b), and watch that baby spin or whatever, thanks

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