Please Help!!

[Cheezeit]

Hello,

I have an EVGA 6600gt PCI-e video card that is freezing in all graphic intensive tasks. Its fine in everyday things like internet browsing and stuff, but once you run things like 3dmark, it starts chokeing, then freezes all together.

Whats weird is that this card was fine when I first put together my system, and passed 3dmark fine, but it started acting up after I used the computer a few days, maybe updated drivers, and tried to overclock the card. ( overclocking it won't do any damage, since I didn't increase voltage, right?)

Anyways, I tried unitalling and reinstalling windows to clear everything, but now I still have these same problems?

My temps seem to be fine, 50 idle and 80c load.

The only reason I think its not a bad card is that it worked before.

If all comes to all, should I just RMA it?

Can you guys please help and tell me what to do?

Thanks and sorry for the long post

EDIT: I found out that my video ram was bad. using coolbits, I tried to down clock the memory bus to 700, and that little test thing said it was unable to run at that speed. Same happened with 800 and 900, so I figured no duh it can't run at the defult 1000mhz.
It wouldn't work until 500mhz. I tried 3dmark and it passed with 2200 or something, and still had artifacts. Guess i have to rma this thing...

Wish me luck on the RMA

 

[johnnqq]

80 seems pretty warm...

 

[Cheezeit]

80 is still operational for a video card, right?

 

[Cheezeit]

anyone? Please?

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

yes it is but that is very hot and won't help to keep it lasting long. maybe a zalman vf700 would help.

 

[Cheezeit]

Thanks for the replies!

Ive tried using a fan blowing over it and everything, but it still freezes.
Even if it is hot, it should still be functional, right?

 

[hans030390]

do you have the molex connector in? does it do worse when you dont overclock it? what kind of power supply do you have?

 

[Kalessian]

Remember what happened in the Anandtech 6600GT roundup?

Sometimes the thermal glue cracks and that would cause major overheating. Trying reheating the heatsink with some AS5.

 

[HolyGerbil]

The only issues that I have seen with 6600 GT's was insufficient power supplies, although the temp does seem a lil ward for idle. What kind of PSU do you have? If i remember correctly, the PCIe 6600 GT's do not have molex connectors, so it could also be a PCIe connection issue. Luck.

 

[Cheezeit]

Sry, I forgot to mention that my PSU is a Fortron blue storm 500, which i dont think is causeing the problems

is there anything else?

 

[Cheezeit]

bump

 

[Cheezeit]

no one has any more ideas?

 

[Cheezeit]

Solved the problem. See OP