Gigabyte Nvidia 9600GT 512DDR3(256bit) SilentCell issue.

[ekorel]

Hi everyone. I just made this account today due to an issue I have with my above mentioned gfx card. I have it for about 8-9 months now... I still have warranty on it, but the guys there might be a bit too slow on the uptake (or just stupid).
The Issue:
1. While playing Price of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (on full details, maxed out, 1680x1050), my screen blacked out. Tried alt+tab, did not work, tried control+alt+del, it worked (btw, OS: Windows7). Once I got on my desktop, I realized that my game has been killed, and these graphical corruptions occurred. The black and white pixels where flickering and kept changing position.
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2. This also happened while I was playing LoL (league of legends) a fairly low gfx requiring game.

If anyone knows anything of this, or can even explain to me what is happening, so I can put the boys from the service on the right tracks? Much appreciated, and thank you in advance!

[osprey4]

Hi Ekorel,

Welcome to TechIMO.

It would be helpful to know some details about your system, and the video drivers you are using. I assume you have already tried updating the drivers from the NVidia site but please let us know which ones.

[ekorel]

My comp specs:
Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2,800MHz
MoBo: Asus P5QL Pro (Chipset Intel Eaglelake P43)
RAM: 6144 MB (2x1GB OCZ Gold XTC OCZ2G800R21G @800MHz + 2x2GB Mushkin 991580 @800MHz)
GFX: Gigabyte Nvidia 9600GT 512MB DDR3(256bit) SilentCell on 8.17.12.5721 - nVIDIA ForceWare 57.21 driver.
Monitor: LG W2241S (on VGA adaptor)
HDD: WD 640GB @ 7200RPM (Black)

Information taken from Everest software.

EDIT: I updated my driver to 257.21, latest version on the Nvidia site, but Everest still displays the above mentioned driver version...

[Aaron_8015]

Looks like slight artifacting... what temperature is your 9600 getting to with load?

[ekorel]

My GPU is at 51°C (124°F) in idle and 63°C (145°F) in about 15 minutes of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (full detail @ 1680x1050, I picked this game as a benchmark)