Graphic Cards XFX 7600GS display corruption

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My XFX 7600GS is barely 2 months old.

The problem started yesterday, while playing Flatout2. Occasionally the game would hang. Then i tried Quake 4, it started displaying all kinds of shapes and lines in between the game play and finally the game hung. I restarted the PC, again played Flatout2 for about 15 mins after which again the problem resurfaced. I tried playing a movie on BSplayer and it hanged. The display in the movie window was corrupted.

Checked the temperature after playing the game and it was 61C.

Any views on what can be wrong? Any troubleshooting tools available for Nvidia cards?

P.S. It has been very dusty for the past few days in my area. The dust accumulates very easily to my PC. Can it be the case that dust has accumulated on the gfx card?
 
this seems like overheat problem with the DDR3 RAM chips. core temp after playing game seems fine at 61Deg.After closing game, temp drops at fast rate so i think ur card is running at atleast 70Deg when ur playing games, it seems OK too. clean the dust on ur card specially memory chips and keep ur card cool to avoid corruption on ur display.

PS: Such corruption happens 90% because of overheating of RAM chips so keep them cool all the time. Core is capable of handling 100Deg+ Prolonged overheating of RAM chip may permanently damage ur card as it happened with me many times.
 
I have the same card and the same problems. Give it back to Rashi because the XFX 7600GS series all suffer from the same problems. It uses DDR2 memory but is very heat sensitive. The card would start to artifact only minutes into gameplay. Yes, if you were to keep the memory cool then there would no problems. However, this card is SUPPOSED to run without the additional cooling so one can say that it is functionally defective.
 
Bastard has overheat problems, my 9800se used to give the exact same problems until.....guess what....until I underclocked the bugger's core and mem by 50mhz :S

Too bad its conked now, am stuck with a gf2mx onboard on my old nforce board :/
 
I have the same card..have no issues so far, since the first thing i did after buying the card was fit an 80mm fan on top of the heat sink as i had read a few bad things about the passive cooling already in forums.. now my gpu temps stay at 48C in idle and 53C load...m quite happy with the temps... forget all tht crap talk about passive cooling and fit a fan on top of the heatsink asap..

nvidiabeast said:
this seems like overheat problem with the DDR3 RAM chips
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The xfx 7600gs has ddr2 ram n not ddr3...:P
 
Can you tell me from where you bought the 80mm fan? And do i need to take the whole cabby for installing or just the card?

thanks
 
DCEite said:
Can you tell me from where you bought the 80mm fan? And do i need to take the whole cabby for installing or just the card?
thanks
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Arreh its the normal cabinet fan tht is easily available in the market..and dont need to take it to your dealer, you can easily fit it urself...you just need to take the card out...fix four plastic wedge pins (they are easily available at all pc shops) on the four sides of the heatsink...just push them thru the heatsink fins, make sure your fix the pins at equal distance exactly according to the fan screw holes...and then, just snap the fan on top of it...n voila.. u r done..to make it more secure, u can also use cello tapes to secure it to the heatsink..but dont overdo it...
give me some time, i'll post pics to help u understand..:)
 
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