Black flickering! GTX 460


  1. Chooseyant
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    Black flickering! GTX 460


    I just bought a POV GTX 460 1GB graphics card and I've noticed that it began flickering black for about 1 second and then kinda resumes (sound warps) in heroes of newerth.

    Now to fill you in on some history.

    I had a ATI Gigabyte 4850 and it was kinda old and dusty. It would freeze when things got graphically demanding and after like 10 seconds sometimes would resume back to the game. And before it would it would turn black then the image would reappear. It would also crash my machine, the drivers were a mess and I am pretty sure it was overheating. It did this especially when I tried to multi-task while in games.

    Today I reformatted, bought my new graphics card and started to play some games. When this flickering occurred I had been playing itunes, had a video open in VLC and was alt tabbing to browser a couple times. I could never do this and I have 8GB ram so I was totally enjoying this multi task fest when I started noticing the above. I also had a faulty Corsair 750W PSU awhile ago at the time of this ATI card. So it's about 4 months or so old so there shouldn't be a problem there. I have a Gigabyte EP43-US3L motherboard after my last mother board (was much better) failed.

    It's only the first day but it kinda worries me.

    Any ideas? I installed the latest drivers from the Nvidia website.
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  3. yowanvista
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    It could be overheating
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  4. Chooseyant
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    Is that normal for a brand new graphics card? I have an Antec 900 and so there are quite a lot of fans, so I don't see anything I can really do.
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  6. Chooseyant
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    Submitted by Chooseyant on October 13 2010, 3:09 am


    App Version: Geeks3D_FurMark_v1.8.2_Build_Apr 16 2010_at_10:36:37


    Main graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
    Number of Active GPUs: 1
    GPU Clock: 675 MHz
    Memory Clock: 1800 MHz
    Shader Clock: 1350 MHz
    Graphics Drivers: 8.17.12.5896 7-9-2010 - nvoglv64
    GPU Temperatures (start/end):38°C / 62°C


    Bench Duration: 60 ms
    Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    MSAA samples: 32
    Window Mode: fullscreen


    CPU: IntelR CoreTM2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz
    CPU Speed: 2666 MHz
    Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit build 7600 No Service Pack
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  7. Hopalong X
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    It isn't overheating on FurMark.
    38C is higher than mine at idle a little. Mine runs 30-33C. Close enough.

    Mine using AVP benchmark gets up to 57-58C so your top temp. is normal.

    Actually mine would be almost identical with your screen resolution.
    So your good there.

    My only suggestion would be to go to Crash and Debugging and fill out a BSOD report. They show more than BSOD's in the dump files.

    Follow this link below and repost or move the thread to the Crash/Debugging section.
    Mike
    https://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html

    The reason for this is it may be something effecting the video card not necessarily the card.
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  8. Lemur
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    Since you had a faulty video card AND a faulty psu, did you have a power surge that affected your pc? If so, it may have affected your mobo as well.
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  10. Hopalong X
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    I have a Gigabyte EP43-US3L motherboard after my last mother board (was much better) failed.

    I see you changed the board.

    Follow the BSOD I posted and hopefully find out what hardware or drivers are messing up.
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  11. Chooseyant
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    https://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...ml#post1011089
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  12. jet1337
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    MSI gtx 460 a lot better and cooler.
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