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[csills]

ok so i bought a EVGA GTX 260 about 2 weeks ago, and everytime i game for about 30 minutes it would make my game look like its on acid (artifacts). ok so heres the story

plugged her in a 500WATT PSU, i thought it kept doing that so i got a new PSU.

i moved to a OCZ 600WATT PSU with 4 12v rails. load up a game and it still does it.

things i have done.

1. reinstalled drivers with driver cleaner.

2. checked temps right when the problem starts happening.

3. played at lower resolution and lower settings still does it.

4. i RMA'd for a replacement, it should be here in about a week and a half

here are some pix.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4929/95317261xz6.jpg

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8149/denuke0001ua5.jpg

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1968/denuke0002aw1.jpg

games that I've played fallout 3 and counter strike source.

so i called the people first when it starting doing this, they said it was my power supply that is why i have a new one now.

i do know a LOT about computers and im 19 years old and i've been building since i was 11 years old, i got into them from a friend. kinda like legos

i believe its a bad GPU or bad memory. bad memory is like a Hard drive on a video card, it loads every texture in a game and loads them in the memory, as your looking at a wall or anything in a game right when you look at a specific place in a game it loads it from the Memory from the video card. i believe my memory inside my video card are blanks so it would look something like this 0x0x0x0x000000. the zeros at the end indicate when it cant read anymore and give you weird artifacts. its suppose to look something like this 0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0 and so on. that is just what a example im trying to say, trying to make it easier for you computer illiterate guys:).

but that is just my opinion , some people here might have experienced the same problem and might actually know the true answer, i was tired of goin on evga forums and them making me spend money when i knew for a fact it wasnt it.

so any idea what it is? i believe its bad memory

whats your thoughts?

thanks

CS

[Slinky]

its gotta be a prob with the card itself. the replacement should work fine. an ocz 600 watt psu is MORE than enough power for that card, and the rest of your shit.

[KoolDrew]

Artifacts are caused by errors in the graphics pipeline. The main cause is usually an overheating GPU, but since you said you checked that I would say a bad memory chip. The motherboard could be the issue as well, such as a messed up PCI-E lane or a bad northbridge since it controls the PCI-E bus. As you said, it may be main memory as well since all gfx data is sent to the PCI-E bus from memory.

I say run memtest86+ to rule out any memory problems first.