Can artifacting damage my card ? :)

[damasta]

Hi
my problem is that my leadtek pcx 6800gt starts making artifacts when testing in atitool but in gaming i don´t have any problems don´t see any artifacts and don´t have any stability issues.
Can i run my card at that settings are am i going to blow it if i keep doing that ?

[afireinside]

Uh maybe I'm wrong but isn't ATI tool kind of made for ATI cards and not nvidias? :stick:

[damasta]

yes but artifact scaning works on nvida cards too or does it just generate err´s there that are not errors ?

[TMM]

Don't trust ATItool. If you don't have any problems with gaming, then its ok imho :)

[damasta]

ok :) fine just giving it some more testing :) 440//1200 roxx ^^ with stock cooler :)

[extol1337]

i test for artifacts on benches and games, not ati tool and such

[ZX7891]

atitool .24 is soo rediculous i cant get by with my X800 on stock speeds without it finding a litle artifact..they programmed it to pick up the tiniest of tiny artifacts when the fact of the matter is every card artifacts a tiny tiny tiny bit..

[craig588]

You need better cooling/more voltage then. I could get by it at over 600MHz core with a X800 XT PE running for about a half hour, then I closed it because I was bored.

[damasta]

yea i get think it´s the cooling for me too because the first 2 minutes are fine but then it starts artifacting as hell but only tiny artifacts ^^
Temp is at about 70° too much isn´t it ?

[craig588]

That's pretty high, but I remember my stock 6800Us were going 90C at their stock speeds though. I put some 512MB 7800 GTX coolers on them and the temp dropped to around 60C loaded with 1.5V. (I flashed a new bios and swaped the coolers at the time time so I don't have any results for the stock voltage)

It's really hard to make a cooler that fits in that tiny space between the two cards so I needed to use some high end stock ones from a higher model. I'm normally that guy that puts Thermalright Sx9xx heatsinks onto videocards.

[Kasparz]

One funny thing hits Ati tools, i play games for many hours, temp are not higher than 50C with stock cooler, and when i open ATI tools 3d renderer, temp jumps to 70C.

[damasta]

yea same thing for me gaming never gets the card that hot as ati tool does :(
Thinking about getting water soon but don´t kow if it´ll be much use ?

[Jimbo Mahoney]

I'm sure you can set a slider bar in ATITool so it's less sensitive to artifacts?