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Ok, you can private message me if you have any questions down the road.
Last edited by Beta; 13 Oct 2011 at 19:42.
Yesterday i went to sleep, so i turned off the pc. I suppose after 10 hours it is cold enough
Anyways, i power it up today and artifacts reappear. I wait it to boot while displaying artifacts, and when it boots windows it restarts by itself. Next, it boots normally without artifacts. Tiil now (10 minutes after) i have no problems...
I think it is not a temperature problem, as it should not draw artifacts cause i let it cool overnight. Reasonably PCIe slot 1 may have the problem, there comes something else in my mind.
I have the thermal compound right at my hands, should i change the GPU's compound, or it is purposeless?
The artifacts appear more and more often. Gonna change permanently to another PCIe slot to try it out. I hope it's not the GPU's fault.
Yea, thats what I had asked you to do before. Just keep track of the temps and it should be fine down in that slot.
Also with the pics I now see an issue. The CPU heat sink must have been right up to the GPU in PCIe1. That could have been pushing heat onto the GPU.
Hi, i powered again the PC, no problem at all :)
Before (when the GPU was at PCIe slot 1), i had no temperature problems, despite the close distance of CPU fan and GPU. Maybe because the plenty of free space on the other side (the 3 fan side).
PS: I will mark the topic as solved temporarily.
Hello, it has been a long time since my last post :P, i forgot to update the thread.
Eventually, the GPU had the problem. So i returned it to the seller and according to the warrranty, the card was replaced with ASUS EAH6970 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 2GB PCI-E RETAIL - at no extra cost, which is working perfectly till now :)