HD 6870 green artifacts. Idle clock speed too low?
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I was watching a youtube video earlier and it was extremely corrupted and green etc. However when I turned down the quality to 240p and it worked fine. I updated my drivers, restart my PC and still its happening.
After a bit of googling I found someone describing the exact same problem, apparently caused by the idle clock speed being too low?
I havent changed anything that I know of, the only thing I can possibly think of is that I have been playing a lot of Bad Company 2 recently (Which runs fine, another thing pointing towards the idle speed too low thing), and while playing that my card reaches about 70 degrees c.
I use MSI afterburner to monitor temps in game, and also have a different fan control thing to try to keep it slightly cooler than the default one, also done with MSI afterburner. Ive been using afterburner for a long time with no problems.
Also, my card is a Gigabyte HD 6870, encase it matters.
So I have to guess that its this idle clock speed is too low thing.
So, 2 questions:
1. How do I fix it?
2. Any idea why this decided to start now?
Thanks
[editline]16th May 2011[/editline]
Ok I just went on bad company 2 and it was horrible. I really hope this isnt a permanent problem.
Heres the image. [url]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596937197737238459/3B9AC5DBD22D6C4425DFA68AF066E2A17D5CEEB5/[/url]
Check temps, post results.
[editline]16th May 2011[/editline]
Also, full specs, including PSU wattage and brand/model.
Temperatures have been fine. Highest is when playing BC2 and is around 70 - 72 degrees c.
Ill get my specs in a second, but I think im getting closer. I looked at my clock speeds, and while idle memory and core were 300. I started a video and memory jumped up to 1050, core jumped up to 900 BUT then dropped down to 300 again. So I think the problem is that core clock isnt staying up.
[editline]16th May 2011[/editline]
Im just gonna copy n paste most of it:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4ghz (stock speeds + cooler)
Asus M4A79XTD EVO, AMD 790X, AM3, PCI-E 2.0(x16), DDR3 1333/1600/1800, SATA 3Gb/s, ATX
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333) Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, 1.50V
950W Powercool, Modular, 80 PLUS, 80% Eff', SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Fan Cooling, Dual 12V Rails
1GB Gigabyte HD 6870, 4200MHz GDDR5, GPU 900MHz, 1120 Stream Processors, DLDVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/ miniDP
[editline]16th May 2011[/editline]
Ive gotta go to bed, exam tomorow. Hope someone has a solution when I come back D:
Powercool? Haven't heard of that company..
I guess im just going to message AMD / Gigabyte D:
[editline]17th May 2011[/editline]
Ok I sent a ticket to Gigabyte.
No reply yet, Ive decided to send one to AMD too.
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