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post #11 of 14
10/26/12 at 6:17pm
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Are you sure the problem is in the card and not in your cpu/motherboard overclocks?
Just trying to make sure tongue.gif

Edit: Try running stock config's on your motherboard/cpu and the card overclocked to rule that out of the way.
I will try tomorrow. I had no problems with 1180/1800mhz on the same CPU OC. Like I said though, its fine in heaven benchmark and 3dmark11 with 0 artifacts and if these heavy GPU apps do not cause artifacts, you don't think I'm ok? I looped heaven 3 times. Just watched it for 25ish minutes I think.
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post #12 of 14
10/27/12 at 5:52am
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I will try tomorrow. I had no problems with 1180/1800mhz on the same CPU OC. Like I said though, its fine in heaven benchmark and 3dmark11 with 0 artifacts and if these heavy GPU apps do not cause artifacts, you don't think I'm ok? I looped heaven 3 times. Just watched it for 25ish minutes I think.

I'm not doubting your testing method, I had my CPU running at 4.2Ghz for almost a year with a single card.
I decided tu purchase a second 6850 which gave me load's of trouble. Voltage locked, it hated to be overclocked and everytime I played BF3 and only BF3 with crossfire enabled it would give me a BSOD with atisomethingsomething.sys or w,e, so I naturally thought it was the graphics card.
For over 1 week I tested my computer doing 5 hour's of testing during the night.
Till I got tired of it and decided to consult with the elder's of OCN.
Some1 told me to be sure that it wasn't my overclock, I thought it was ridiculous after 1 year running like this without a problem and taking in consideration the problem's I had with the graphics card...
I really expected the problem to be the graphics card, but since Im skeptical I tested it out.
I have to say that I was surprised, it didnt give any sort of image corruption nor bsod's, after fixing this problem I managed to get a stable overclock on that card.

This was an experience that made me open my eyes and since it really isnt hard to exclude this option I think that you can try, you got nothing to lose tongue.gif
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post #13 of 14
10/27/12 at 9:17am
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Tried it, no difference. CPU OC should not have anything to do with GPU as long as the cpu is stable. I love how much easier GPU OCing is too.
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10/27/12 at 9:20am
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