invidious Posted October 25, 2004 Posted October 25, 2004 Everything was working fine, then i took the stock heatsink off my 9800pro and replaced it with my thermaltake giant II which i had been using on an older 9600xt. During this i noticed i had 360 core but thats not going to matter at this rate. I attached a temp probe on the back of the core, held in place with small piece of foam. When i started up everything was fine, temps looked high but i had never had a reading on them before. Everything ran fine, but ATI tool reported constant artifacting even when not OC'd or underclocked. i took off the probe and the foam, reseated the heatsink, no avail. Tried updating to new version of ATI tool, it didnt even detect defaul values for my clcck rates, uninstalled back to old version, now old version wont detect either. None of this makes sense because everything else still works fine as far as i can see, no artifacting in windows or games. The only things that are different are a better heatsink and i took off the shim, unless something happened during the switch but i have done installed this heatsink several times. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted October 26, 2004 Posted October 26, 2004 You need to make sure you have some kind of heatsink on your ram. A fan blowing on your vid card will help also. Did you use AS-5 on the core? The shim should stay on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
invidious Posted October 26, 2004 Posted October 26, 2004 (edited) i used arctic ceramic compound on the core, worked fine w/o ram sinks before, the passive heatsink had a small fan which ive replaced with a stronger one. The shim wont stay in place anymore now that i took it off, the head of the headsink is small enough to fit inside the shim anyway. ATI tool now recognizes me clock rates again but still reports constant artifacting. Im starting to think its just a stranger error with ATI tool. edit: case fan on side wall also blows on the video card, i dont think its heat, which is why i dont see what it can be. edit2: now artifacting is showing up in games, looks like the card is shot, i really dont see why, its not getting hot at all. Edited October 26, 2004 by invidious Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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