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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Graphic cards => Topic started by: wickedpt on February 08, 2011, 11:43:29 am
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Hello,
Hope you can help me. Recently I upgraded my PC with the HD6850 OC (GV-R685OC-1GD) card from a nVidia GTS260. Ever since the upgrade (with the prover driver wipe and after installing the most recent AMD drivers) i either:
a) Crash completely in DX11 mode after a couple of minutes
b) Have a "Graphics Card stopped responding" in DX9 with constant black screens, making mostly every game unplayable.
My question is this:
Is this a know issue with these cards? A driver issue? A BIOS issue? Should i just RMA or replace the card? I went back to the GTS260 because the Gigabyte card makes every game unplayable.
My System:
msi fx790-gd70
Phenom X2 550
Corsair HX620
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Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.
There is a known issue with these cards apparently and from what I have heard it is not only Gigabyte cards as the real problem lies with the memory installed on the GPUs.
See this thread for more information: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,3884.0.html
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Since this is a Know Issue, should I RMA the card? Or wait for a driver update? It's a bit annoying to have my computer unusable like this...
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Well if you notice on that thread they were complaining about cards with a certain make of memory chips so I would suggest that you check your card and see if it complies to the issue in that thread.
To be fair I haven't heard of any cards this end of the continent so far with this problem.
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Update BIOS on your motherboard, update BIOS on a graphic card (if available). If that does not help, put your GPU on def freq (820Mhz for GPU) for that card, and do the math on your own ;)
775:1005=820:X
775 x X = 820*1005
775X= 824100
X= 824100/775
X= 1064
So, put your RAM freq on 1064MHz. It is all about corelation with GPU / RAM ;)
Say if it works!
bye!!!