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I got a msi gtx 580 lightning from newegg's open box a few weeks ago and it's been fine. I upgraded my monitor last week to take advantage of it's power and now that I'm running at 1920x1080 I've started to get artifacts in bfbc2 and then it'll crash. =(
It started yesterday, out of the blue just artifacts started to appear. After probably 4 hours of game play. I went to go fire up fraps for a screenshot and gpuz for temps and they were (59c with 96% gpu load). But it didn't last that long. I started to feel like I was swimming through pudding and then my monitor shut off but my computer was still running. I had to hold down my power button just to shut it off.
Tried to play again today to get screenshots but this time it didn't even artifact before I started to feel like swimming in pudding before it crashed and my monitor shut off again. Only this time it was less then a half hour of playing bfbc2. Temps were 56c last I saw.
Worst part is I haven't even had the time to overclock since getting my monitor last week, so the lightning has been running at stock this entire time.
Is there anything I can do before I rma it to msi to make sure 100% it's the card? I ran 3dmark11 and still getting right around 6000 on performance with everything at stock.
It started yesterday, out of the blue just artifacts started to appear. After probably 4 hours of game play. I went to go fire up fraps for a screenshot and gpuz for temps and they were (59c with 96% gpu load). But it didn't last that long. I started to feel like I was swimming through pudding and then my monitor shut off but my computer was still running. I had to hold down my power button just to shut it off.
Tried to play again today to get screenshots but this time it didn't even artifact before I started to feel like swimming in pudding before it crashed and my monitor shut off again. Only this time it was less then a half hour of playing bfbc2. Temps were 56c last I saw.
Worst part is I haven't even had the time to overclock since getting my monitor last week, so the lightning has been running at stock this entire time.
Is there anything I can do before I rma it to msi to make sure 100% it's the card? I ran 3dmark11 and still getting right around 6000 on performance with everything at stock.