PSU or Videocard problem.....

[josh609]

Hello everyone,
I'm having some issues playing games. I've updated my video card

drivers and everything else in windows 7 is up to date. The first

issue i've been having is textures in Starcraft 2 would start messing

up. Multi-colored or just wrong lay-out. Now i'm having a problem

playing games or anything that requires any amount of 3d graphics: bad

company 2, SC2, and even Google Earth. games or programs just freeze

for a few moments, and then they come back. At least in SC2 they

do........at times. At times i've had to reset my computer. The sounds

still continues to run while playing the game, but my monitor flickers

and a weird design comes upThe, and then my monitor goes black for a

moment, and sometimes SC2 will resume and everything is fine, until it

does it again. Periods between this happening can be several times a

match to maybe once every 2-3 matches in SC2. I think i narrowed it

down to either a bad video card or a dying PSU.

I have a Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2Ghz
Radeon 4870 1GB
OCZ Gamextreme 600 watter.
6GB of Memory

I've had my computer for a little over 4 years now. The graphics card

is probably around 2 years old, while the PSU and CPU are over 4 years

old. So perhaps the PSU isn't supplying sufficient power to the video

card or perhaps the video card is just dying? I haven't overclocked

the video card......I'm not sure what to do....

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!

 

[Bartman39]

Textures is video memory so might be the video card going bad...?

A bad PS would mean OS crashes and for sure with an OC...


What motherboard do you have...? Might try another PCIe slot also...?

 

[josh609]

I have an Asus P5B Deluxe. My computer doesn't crash at all in windows. Everything is perfectly stable.

 

[Bartman39]

So assume the EVGA card in your sig is not in there...?
With the system stable otherwise I would for sure be suspect of the video card, also you indicate you OC`d the EVGA card so not this one...?

 

[josh609]

So assume the EVGA card in your sig is not in there...?
With the system stable otherwise I would for sure be suspect of the video card, also you indicate you OC`d the EVGA card so not this one...?

No unfortunately it's not. My brother and I switched graphics cards when he was programming with CUDA when he was in school. I now have his Gigabyte Radeon 4870 1GB.