5870, possible faulty RAM

[bewts]

Hey there everyone, I had made a thread a few months back regarding my GPU. Just never fixed it.

The display driver will stop responding randomly while playing games, when it does I get vertical lines across my entire screen with a black backround. The driver will recover 90% of the time and the game will play without any graphical problems. When I exit the game I get ultra corrupted/glitched graphics all over my desktop.

I've been running HW monitor and the card dosent go over 67celcius so I doubt heat is an issue.

My drivers are up to date. I've tried reinstalling my OS thinking it could fix it but nothing.

AMD phenom IIx4 965

880ga-UD3H

Antec truepower quatro 1000w

GV-R587OC-1GD or GV-R587UD-1GD not too sure which GPU, the manual is saying it's either.


Safe to say this needs an RMA?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

I am not sure how accurate your version of HW Monitor is  as some are quite a way out. My first thought would be a temperature one. You live in a hot climate  and you mention that this happens when playing games, that all leads me to believe that it is a heat issue.

[bewts]

I live in northern Canada so I doubt the climate has anything to do with it. EDIT - lol, my country was set to cape verde - my bad

I've actually took off the side panel when the card screws up and put my hand right next to the heat pipes on the card, I barley feel any heat.

The card has been doing this from day 1... yes the fans work.


What software should I use for checking temps?

Edit # 2 - I just don't think its a heat issue. I can play Metro 2033 and other demanding games maxed out for hours and nothing will screw up. Some times I run a game for 5-10 mins and it will happen.

[Dark Mantis]

You are right Northern Canda isn't as hot as Cape Verde Islands.

I would suggest that you RMA the card then as it sounds as if there is a hardware problem with it.