GTX 480 issues

JLuchinski

JLuchinski

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I picked up a GTX 480 about a week ago and I'm not sure if the issues is with the card or something else. It seems to crash at random during game if I turn up the AA past 2 or 4x. It doesn't give me the error saying "The Display Diver stopped working" either, it's like nothing really happened when I get back to the desktop. Does the amount of system RAM affect AA? Another example is after a system restart if I run Heaven benchmark after about the 5th part of the test I get an error saying "D3D11AppWindow::do_swap():device removed". I have tessellation set to normal and AA set to 4x, everything else is default. After I get that error, I can run it without issue with the same settings. The temp doesn't get above 78. I ran Furmark and let it get to 100 degrees without issue as well. 3D Mark 11 runs without any issue as well. I was running the newest 310 drivers but have since moved back to 306.23. I have uninstalled all older drivers as well. I am using EVGA precision as well. All the voltages are normal when I check the BIOS and I don't have any virus or spyware. Any help/suggestions is greatly appreciated, I'm trying to get some cash together to upgrade the CPU and RAM. TIA
 
Maybe try bumping the voltage a tad and see what happens? IDK but my 470 doesnt have these issues so to me it sounds like the card.

Wait, is your sig correct with the e5200 and 2gbs ram? I'd at least get more ram, and a quad core cpu wouldn't hurt either, but you wont get everything out of a 480 with a dual core at 2.5ghz AFAIK.
 
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Hmmm... E5200 and a GTX 480 - interesting combination. I think the issue could potentially be a CPU bottleneck, not 100% sure on that one. I'd upgrade to an E8400 or even a Q6600 or Q9300 or any Core 2 Quad processor if I could, but I think you'd be best getting say an i3 or an i5 over the older stuff now if you were going to upgrade any hardware. Even something like an FX-4300 or 6300 would be better than your E5200.

Might want to get some more RAM too, 2GB is low these days. I'd go for 4GB as a minimum, 8GB would be nice, but 8GB of DDR2 is going to be expensive I'm afraid.
 
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Yeah, bump the voltage up by 100mV and see if that helps. Watch temps. BTW 100 degrees C is too hot.
 
Have you overclocked the card at all?
Because 100c seems pretty high for a gtx480. I know they get hot, but that's just too much.
Did you check the temps while playing with 2-4 or more AA? It could be the temps too (even if furmark ran without issues).
Set fan speed manually to about 95%-100% and try again to see if temps is the problem.
 
SmileMan said:
Have you overclocked the card at all?
Because 100c seems pretty high for a gtx480. I know they get hot, but that's just too much.
Did you check the temps while playing with 2-4 or more AA? It could be the temps too (even if furmark ran without issues).
Set fan speed manually to about 95%-100% and try again to see if temps is the problem.
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Furmark kills the temps, i hes got the reference cooler i know anandtech says my 470 got to like 96 on one bench, so 100 is believeable
 
jonnyp11 said:
Furmark kills the temps, i hes got the reference cooler i know anandtech says my 470 got to like 96 on one bench, so 100 is believeable
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Okay then, still I find it a way too hot lol.
Try upping the voltage like jonnyp said, or it are the drivers like you mentioned.
 
SmileMan said:
Have you overclocked the card at all?
Because 100c seems pretty high for a gtx480. I know they get hot, but that's just too much.
Did you check the temps while playing with 2-4 or more AA? It could be the temps too (even if furmark ran without issues).
Set fan speed manually to about 95%-100% and try again to see if temps is the problem.
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No oc whatsoever. I only let the card get that hot to see if there were any artifacts which there weren't. When it quits the first time in Heaven the temp gets to about 65, when it runs properly the temp doesn't get above 78. BF3 and the first Crysis run like crap, everything else runs decent. I tried the newest drivers but I was having this issue where even at idle the screen would randomly go black for about a second like nothing had ever happened.
 
JLuchinski said:
No oc whatsoever. I only let the card get that hot to see if there were any artifacts which there weren't. When it quits the first time in Heaven the temp gets to about 65, when it runs properly the temp doesn't get above 78. BF3 and the first Crysis run like crap, everything else runs decent. I tried the newest drivers but I was having this issue where even at idle the screen would randomly go black for about a second like nothing had ever happened.
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I about maxed crysis at 1280x960, so i am really starting to think it's the drivers or voltage. When you were updating and down-dating, did you do a full driversweep and load
 
bigfellla said:
Your CPU is insufficient.
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That's what I figured, I was a little concerned because I bought this card site unseen. I was going to get a better socket 775 CPU but I figure what's the point? I'll just save up some cash and get a newer things one at a time. Thanks everyone :good:
 
JLuchinski said:
That's what I figured, I was a little concerned because I bought this card site unseen. I was going to get a better socket 775 CPU but I figure what's the point? I'll just save up some cash and get a newer things one at a time. Thanks everyone :good:
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it shouldn't be too much to grab another 2 gigs of ram and see what happens, and then you could sell the core system more easilly should that not be enough, pretty sure most people know 2 gigs is low these days
 
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