I think my 6990m is on its way out....

I was playing battlefront today and my display went all fuzzy. I quit battlefront, and the fuzzyness got worse and all scrambled. I switched to IGP and the fuzzyness was gone. Switched back to 6990m, and its back. This is the second 6990m to go out on me, and its not overclocked. How likely would it be I could argue for a GTX 580m as a replacement? I'd really like to stick with ATI for the no-throttle and manual switching, but two cards dying in less than 6 months isn't appetizing.

 

are your temps super high? that pretty strange, you could try to see if they will give you a 580m, but in the end they can give you whichever card they please.

 

Now that the cards are the same price they probably won't care. They offered it to me when the 580 was $300 more.

 

Thats the weird thing. My temps are normal, in the high 60's low 70's range. Gonna call up dell tomorrow. Has the throttling been resolved with the GTX 580m?

 

I think it really depends on the rep you end up dealing with. Some are more generous than others and upgrade people, while others are more strict and don't do anybody any favors.

 

6990m on stock paste goes up to 89 deg C

 

mine was repasted with IC24

 

i'd blame the repaste and not the gfx card.

My 6990m has been with me for 3 months now....84 to 87 deg C is what it sees everyday. At least the shader part!

 

my temps have never hit the 80's... i don't see how the repaste is the problem

 

I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

Did you update to 12.1 CCC drivers?

 

Yes, I did.

 

technos, is this just one game or does this happen with everything? If its just one game, i'd tend to blame the drivers/game patch combination. And this case, roll back to something previous like 11.10. See if the issues still are present with the older drivers

If however, you are getting artifacts on everything, then i'd be more inclined to blame the card.

 

It happens whenever I run anything graphics intensive. Even if I quit the program, the fuzzyness stays on regular windows applications and web browsing until I switch to IGP and back to DGPU, when it resets clocks to 100/150 instead of 715/900

 

hmmmm...if the artifacts are clock speed related, then i'd definitely call dell and get it fixed. 2 cards in such a short time period does seem strange

 

Regarding the paste being the culprit. I have heard metal-based thermal pastes can cause trouble because it conducts electricity and can create shorts. It might be just a myth. But still.