HiS 3850HD Tearing? Is it fooked?

[Joe90k]

Hi,

Last night I was overclocking my rig to see if I can squeeze any more out of it, I am limited by my RAM atm and I need some help with that but thats for another section. As I was overclocking I accidentally upped my PCI-e voltage and now I think it has fooked my 3850HD. Does that sound right or is there something I am missing. Can it be rescued or is it the excuse I need to upgrade to the 4850HD ICEQ 4 Turbo edition

Any help would be great!

Thanks

Joe

 

[JackyBoy]

What has happened to your card? did smoke come out of it? does your pc still boot?

Let us know mroe details and might be able to help

 

[PV5150]

How much extra voltage did you put through the PCI-E slot, and you're sure it's tearing?

Usually tearing is caused by disabling VSync and your graphics card and monitor will go out of synch. Whenever your FPS exceeds the refresh rate (e.g. 120 FPS on a 60Hz screen), or in general at any point during which your graphics card is working faster than your monitor, the graphics card produces more frames in the frame buffer than the monitor can actually display at any one time. The end result is that when the monitor goes to get a new frame from the primary buffer of the graphics card during VBI, the frame may be made up of two or more different frames overlapping each other.

Have you reset your BIOS settings back to defaults to see if that gets rid of the issue?

 

[Joe90k]

I get pink lines accross any colours on the screen, I raised the voltage by two increments i think which was still below the warning level on my Asus board, no smoke came out of it, it still boots and runs vista fine but the display looks awful, I wil l try and get a screenshot of it.

What do you think it is?

THanks

Joe

 

[JackyBoy]

Without any more info, yeah it sounds like you may have damaged the card, try putting everythign back to stand that you can, install brand new drivers, and if it still does it then you probably need to get a first class letter to the north pole so it gets there in time for xmas

But try that and let us know how it goes, it only started doing it straight after you did the voltages thing? strange if it is within the limits...but electronics are a funny thing

 

[Joe90k]

I tired resetting to standard in the BIOS to no avail, its not only in vista that it shows the pink lines it also shows them at the splash screen when you first push the power button.

Oh well, new HiS 4850 HD ICE Q TURBO X FTW!!!!



Joe

 

[JackyBoy]

that's a pity about your card, but i don't think anyone has been so happy about ruining a graphics card lol. But as long as your happy

 

[Joe90k]

Gives me a reason to buy a new one lol

It seems fine this morning so may have just got a touch of the hots, oh well too late new one is on the way!!!

Joe

 

[Darkjeste]

It's always nice to have an excuse to pick up a new video card

That's what I did,my 1950 finally just about died on me just keep overheating constantly even with fan at 100% so i bought myself a new 4870 for x-mas.