Sapphire Radeon 5770 Vapor X issues

ZeDgE · Feb 7, 2010, 10:04 PM

Picked up a Sapphire Radeon 5770 Vapor X edition yesterday. Working fine all day yesterday and today. Well tonight while playing BF BC2 beta I started seeing these flickering black lines. Tried a few other games and the same thing is occuring.. Is this a bad card?

Intel Core i3
4GB Kingston DDR3
400W Corsair Power Supply
Sapphire 5770 Vapor X

dom_k · Feb 8, 2010, 07:42 AM

Yes it could be a bad card. Before you RMA it try updating your graphics drivers, reducing the gpu and memory speeds a few mhz and reseating your graphics card. If none of the above make any difference I'd get a replacement. It looks like classic artifacting caused by an overheating or damaged card

ZeDgE · Feb 8, 2010, 05:48 PM

Swapped the card today. See how it goes. So far so good.

Dyre Straits · Feb 9, 2010, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZeDgE

Swapped the card today. See how it goes. So far so good.

I was going to say if I got a card that had that kind of display "out of the box" I'd return it pronto. Glad to see you did a total swap.

Good luck!

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ZeDgE Radeon R100 Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 41	Sapphire Radeon 5770 Vapor X issues Picked up a Sapphire Radeon 5770 Vapor X edition yesterday. Working fine all day yesterday and today. Well tonight while playing BF BC2 beta I started seeing these flickering black lines. Tried a few other games and the same thing is occuring.. Is this a bad card? Intel Core i3 4GB Kingston DDR3 400W Corsair Power Supply Sapphire 5770 Vapor X

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Feb 8, 2010, 07:42 AM	#2
dom_k Radeon R600 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Leeds Posts: 644	Yes it could be a bad card. Before you RMA it try updating your graphics drivers, reducing the gpu and memory speeds a few mhz and reseating your graphics card. If none of the above make any difference I'd get a replacement. It looks like classic artifacting caused by an overheating or damaged card

Feb 8, 2010, 05:48 PM	#3
ZeDgE Radeon R100 Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 41	Swapped the card today. See how it goes. So far so good.

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