Hello, my name is Justin, thought I'd try to find a site that might have people that will know the answer to this amazingly confusing problem I have. About a month ago I began to get artifacting in some games I played. After some research I found that it was most likely due to some overheating of the video card. So I took a house fan and pointed it into my case and the problem seemed to diminish.

Then the problem became much worse.



This is what happened.

To make a long story short, I've replaced Video Card, Motherboard, Power Supply, and the Processor. I've tried different RAM. I've reformatted my hard drive and re-installed windows. Nothing fixed it.

I've even tried my video cards in another computer and they worked just fine.

Does anyone know of another reason I could be getting these artifacts?

by the way im not overclocking anything

System Specs:

MSI K9N Neo-F V.3 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 560 MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHz 65W
Rosewill RP600V2-SL 600W SLI Ready-ATX12V V2.01 Power Supply
EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3
G.Skill 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

Thanks for your time.
Sounds like overheating.
What temperatures are your BIOS reporting for the CPU and ambient temp?
What about the gfx card?Temperatures:
      Motherboard                                           46 °C  (115 °F)
      CPU                                                     17 °C  (63 °F)
      CPU #1 / Core #1                                    6 °C  (43 °F)
      CPU #1 / Core #2                                   14 °C  (57 °F)
      MCP                                                     54 °C  (129 °F)
      Aux                                                        6 °C  (43 °F)
      GPU                                                      52 °C  (126 °F)
      GPU Diode                                              56 °C  (133 °F)
      GPU Ambient                                          50 °C  (122 °F)
      Seagate ST3200021A                              43 °C  (109 °F)
      WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1                          37 °C  (99 °F)
decent temps onboard sensors not always accurate i would suggest adding a pci exhaust fan below your graphics card and see what happens.an exhaust fan is a great idea.
they arent very expensive either.
also maybe a pci fan is an idea
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=120565&Sku=V13-4200
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=39598well i increased my gpu fan to 100% from 60% and there was notable difference in quality. however i also put a house fan in the side and got the gpu temp down to 40C yet i still get QUITE a few artifacts. you think some more fans in the case would help? seems like the vid card shouldn't be screwing up at all at this temp.you have replaced everything and still?
this is very bamboozling...
does this happen in every game/video you play/watch?yeah every game i play, not in videos i watch though. every game, but not in videos?
do you have the latest drivers for everything?yeah updated all drivers i could think of
Do you have a good heatsink for the heat to dissipate?  Quote from: squall_01 on March 21, 2008, 04:03:41 AM

Do you have a good heatsink for the heat to dissipate? 

seems like the vid card shouldn't be screwing up at all at this temp.