ok, this is an update from my "Fried" post
to update, my cpu w/c system leaked all over my volt modded 7900GT and i finally got all the hardware i needed to install a scythe ninja in place of my water cooling. i cleaned my gfx card really well with a toothbrush and alcohol, removed the volt mod, cleared the bios, and installed a fresh copy of xp.
the pc runs great, but you can see artifacting on basically every screen from the mobo logo thru to when windows comes up. its only a hand full of pixels but its annoying and they shouldnt be there! after i got all the mobo and gfx drivers installed and updated and it was still happening, i cleaned the card again but there was negligible improvement.
so i installed HL2 and started playing CS:S hust to see what happens. the frame rates are really low (i would guess 20-30) and sometimes the different skins, wether it be players, nades, etc will get a straight line coming out of them to infinity... as i played, the bugs became fewer, but the frame rate went down too. I'm pretty sure i need a new gfx card... any recommendations to get this straightened out?
oh, when i installed the scythe ninja... 2 capacitors were too close to the unviversal clip i got from scythe... i had to like push down super super hard and ended up bending the capacitors out of the way... they are still pressed against the heat pipes, but i think they're ok....
to update, my cpu w/c system leaked all over my volt modded 7900GT and i finally got all the hardware i needed to install a scythe ninja in place of my water cooling. i cleaned my gfx card really well with a toothbrush and alcohol, removed the volt mod, cleared the bios, and installed a fresh copy of xp.
the pc runs great, but you can see artifacting on basically every screen from the mobo logo thru to when windows comes up. its only a hand full of pixels but its annoying and they shouldnt be there! after i got all the mobo and gfx drivers installed and updated and it was still happening, i cleaned the card again but there was negligible improvement.
so i installed HL2 and started playing CS:S hust to see what happens. the frame rates are really low (i would guess 20-30) and sometimes the different skins, wether it be players, nades, etc will get a straight line coming out of them to infinity... as i played, the bugs became fewer, but the frame rate went down too. I'm pretty sure i need a new gfx card... any recommendations to get this straightened out?
oh, when i installed the scythe ninja... 2 capacitors were too close to the unviversal clip i got from scythe... i had to like push down super super hard and ended up bending the capacitors out of the way... they are still pressed against the heat pipes, but i think they're ok....