Kougar | 11th January 2009 07:55 | Referring to when the GDDR3 starts to fail on you forcing you to underclock it to avoid artifacts and crashes... more commonly affects GDDR3 than the GPU core; in my humble opinion it is the first part of the GPU to typically go bad ingoring the fan. This is based on watching or helping out in several NVIDIA support forums and typically seeing screenshots of GPU Memory caused artifacts or descriptions thereof.
My Foxconn 320mb is so far gone I still can detect errors or sometimes force crashes by running any GPU stress tool, even after underclocking the GDDR3 memory to 700MHz base rate (as low as EVGA Precision allows). Used to work fine at stock memory speeds, but by almost two years I had to begin clocking lower to regain stability. Now the card is not stable at any speeds. |