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    ShoieP is offline
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    ShoieP's Video Issues

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    XFX AMD Radeon HD 6870
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    My graphics card started acting up (horizontal static lines, bizarre dead pixels popping up everywhere, etc.) .

    At first, I thought that it was just an overheating issue so I replaced the thermal compound on the heatsink. It worked up until I tried to play video games. (Witcher 2 specifically) After awhile, the staticy shit started happening again and it looked like that movie hacker type shit was going on.

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    After that, I went and got MSI Afterburner to measure the temperature of the card and found out that the temps were pretty average and not really at overheating levels. (40ish idle, 60ish load)

    Decided to just update the drivers.
    Updated them. Didn't work.
    Completely removed the drivers and freshly installed them. Didn't work.

    Went googling around, found a fix where a guy upped his GPU core voltage a bit and it fixed it for him. I tried it (set from 1.175v to 1.2v (maybe I should set it higher?)) Didn't work for me though.

    Can't play any video games at the moment.

    So basically, is this GPU boned (have to get a new one) or can it be salvaged?

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    Thanks for the replies, guys.

    Problem resolved.

    I found out about the "oven method" a few days ago on the internets and baked the GPU at 385 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes.

    It actually works.

    Anyways, I decided to sell/give to a friend the old GPU and order a new one.

    Got myself the EVGA GTX 960 4GB SSC ACX 2.0+. Running pretty nicely so far.

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    You know it's time for a new video card when you have to cook it in the fucking oven...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShoieP View Post
    Thanks for the replies, guys.
    lol

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