GPU Diagnostics

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  1. Trice
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    Anyone know of any GPU Diagnostics? Having issues with BF4 BETA and just this afternoon they started happening while playing Splinter Cell Black List, you can see the issues I am having here: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065214383334353/

    The card is not OC'ed in CCC and never has been, I did OC my i5 but went back to stock this AM. Gonna check to see if my GPU fans are working as well as find a temp/volt monitor for GPU and see if its spiking during play.

    Any other suggestions?
     
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    Cant see any info there because it requires login to access
     
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    OPS!

    The only change is now I am seeing the issues in Unigine and Splinter Cell, fearful that my 6950 is croaking :(
     
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    Very weird. Another guy PMed me a few days ago about his 6950 going out as well. It sounds like it could either be unstable drivers (which you already looked into) or unstable core speed, or maybe unstable system RAM. If you tried 3 different drivers already then you should probably try lowering your GPU core speed by 50-100MHz. The other possibility could be just bugs in the game for your hardware.


    I havent tried BF4 so I dont know if it would be game bug issue. Hopefully there isnt some problem with the 69xx series cards that i causing them to die early. My own 6950 (flashed to 6970) is still running perfectly fine and it has been unlock flashed and heavily over volted and overclocked, run 24x7 for a year and a half in my computer, run 24x7 for 4-5 months in a friends computer, and now just runs on weekends in a spare computer used by other friends.
    If it develops problems anytime soon I will be sure to post about it.
     
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    Dropped to 700mhz and still flips shiz, but last longer until it does. Think it may be a heat issue, while running CCC the fan hit ~50% and the temp ~56c before blowing chunks, ran through the first 3 - 4 screens of Heaven. I let it sit and at random times the screen would go pink with lines, then flicker back to the 1/2 twit shiz and all kinds of other random artifacts.

    Tossed an RMA in as the card was purchased last January, any suggestions for a new card? have to stay under 180$ care not if its AMD or NVIDA
     
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    I thought the same thing until this afternoon when the issue hit me while playing Splinter Cell Black list. This threw up all kinds of red flags and hence my dive down the benchmark road to see WTF.
     
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    56c is actually somewhat low temps for a GPU. That kind of heat should not be causing any issues at all so if it is now doing this on multiple games and you have tried multiple driver versions and lower core speed then it is most likely something defective in the card.

    For a new card I would look at these two. Of them the AMD card is a bit faster:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127722
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125443

    There is also the "new" R9 270X that is just barely more expensive and slightly out of your price range. I have not looked up benchmarks on it yet but it might be something to look into. It *should* be the same card as the AMD 7870 I listed, but higher speed and it will have slightly better driver optimizations over the next year or two than the older card:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127761
     
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    Could it be monitor related? Just wondering as print screens and videos look fine just the display I see is effed. More then likely that was a pretty dumb questions LOL.. to early maybe I should have some coffee before posting.
     
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    That is an interesting question. I am not really sure on the answer, but Ill try to use some deductive reasoning on two scenarios:

    1) The screen image is corrupted, however when a video is played while the image has already been corrupted the video looks perfect. Also if a print screen is taken of the corrupted screen and viewed while the corruption is going on in the background behind the copied image then the copied image looks fine. Therefore the monitor itself displaying the content cant be at fault because otherwise the corruption would have to be "overlaid" on top of all content being displayed.

    2) The screen image is corrupted, but when a print screen is taken and pasted to a file after the corruption has stopped and we can see clearly again, when going back to view the corrupted copied image it then looks fine. Meaning the corruption was at a level higher than display data in memory, which would mean the monitor is causing the corruption and not the GPU or system RAM.


    That is the best deductive reasoning I can come up with this early. Whichever scenario is correct to you then that should lead you to the area of the problem.