X800Pro Dying...

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Entropy

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Heya people, my X800pro is dying... and I'm pretty sure its cause the overclocking hehe.. I'm not gonna RMA it because 1) it WAS my fault 2) Has a giant ATI silencer and ramsinks on it :p .

So I'm scoping around for new video cards and I found a fairly good deal right now.. an X800XL AGP for $399 CDN at my local Futureshop. I really wanna try out one of them 6800GT's but they are all around ~550 dollars here, and thats out of my budget. So what do you think.. should I get this X800XL? :confused:
 
I've heard good things about the X800XL..

What you plan on doing with your X800? You plan on selling it? What exactly is wrong with it? :D
 
I get a really bad checkerboard pattern in windows.. its off and on, I'm assuming its the ram...
 
X800XL wins over the 6800gt in most reviews I've seen, try to find one with a HD power connector on it for better OCing potential (not sure if they exist or they aren't all like that but I hear it would help).

~Adam
 
I've seen some I think, the one I saw at futureshop is a Built By ATI card, and I'm really tempted now... seems like a steal compared to everything else. a 6800GT OC is $650 there!
 
Entropy said:
So I'm scoping around for new video cards and I found a fairly good deal right now.. an X800XL AGP for $399 CDN at my local Futureshop.
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I want to shop at a Futureshop.


It sounds futuristic.

And also shop..........shop....shoppy?
 
Entropy said:
I get a really bad checkerboard pattern in windows.. its off and on, I'm assuming its the ram...
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you installed you ramsinks wrong. if you used as5 clean the card completely, including the core, Q-tips with rubbing alcohol and a couple hours should do the trick. Now if you used the permanent epoxy on the ram sinks and it spilled over onto the PCB, your in for a much longer work time. 2 hours just for the sinks. You need something very small and thin, like a metal toothpick or something like it. Scrape away around the ram sinks with a little strength but not much so you dont start digging into the card. Each time you get some off, use rubbing alchohol + q-tip to clean what you've gotten off.

Dont use AS5 (if you did) again for BGA ram sinks, use a ceramic paste instead for future reference. It sucks i know, but its better to attempt to fix a card and run it at stock speeds then to junk 500-600 and spend another 400. Something on your card is conducting heat or arching that shouldnt, random artifacts is a sign of that. Alternatly you can run at stock speeds, if you still get the corruption, start cleaning.
 
I dunno, its been running for well over a year like this, and they're using thermal tape.. I'm guessing its just the ram crapping out :(

I've also ran the ram down to 400Mhz and it still does the same thing.
 
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