Graphic glitches

Grundlestiltskin

So for the past while, WoW has been doing weird things on me. Lots of flashing green dots, occasionally flashing textures, today this:




What do you think, is my video card just hosed or what? I had 2x geforce 6800 ultras SLI, been using them since February of 2005. I recently took one of the cards out when I started having problems. It got better for a while, but has gotten progressively worse since. Thoughts?

Rook

It's probably just overheating. Try cleaning out the cards thoroughly.

Fofamit

yeah it looks like a classic case of overheating to me; just try to create better air flow in your computer as well as neatening the wires will help as well.

Grundlestiltskin

It appears that that may actually have been the case. I think the system was running at about 46C for a good portion of yesterday (case temp). I took the one card out and took both cards apart; both had a considerable amount of dust clogging up the heatsinks. I cleaned them out, put them back in, and left the case open with a house fan blowing into the side. The system has been running around 33C, and I haven't had any graphical issues yet.