Is this artifacting or defective card?

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ExtremeAlien

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When ever I am playing Counter Strike:Source it stretches textures, also its horrible in Need for Speed: Carbon! It has textures stretched and it slows the game down enormously, heres a little picture, its usually way worse then this. Temperatures usually at 49-57 degrees celcius at idle. Its also not recommended on the motherboards list for Gpu's but we put it anyway, also the sticker said pci-e lite so, but we didn't care. And I believe the gfx card needs a 350 watt power supply but I think I only have a 300 but I'll check once i get a new motherboard :cool:. PS. Its worse then this!
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On a side note if you are aware of these problems yet you're still asking "wtf is up with my card!?!?" then seriously...I have no idea what to tell you. You listed several things wrong with the card yet here we are wondering, "gee...is it the card?" Come on dude and use some common sense...
 
People told me those things and I just wanted to know what you thought, it happens to a lot of other games. Is that temperature causing it? Because I do not know what you consider over heating, like what degree, I just wanted some help, or more explanation on what is happening. I came up with these ideas I just wanted to see if it is one of these problems or a defect in the card. I want to know how to fix it and if it costs me. Sorry if I'm not making sense but I just got into upgrading my computer. Thanks for reading, please reply or pm :).
 
css performs flawlessly on my pc, i have yet to get one error like that.

i do get the occasional crash on zm(zombie) maps.
 
hmmmmm..... psu is a possibility but should be sufficient for at least a small while. first try some small tweaks. a common problem (especially with cs:s) is that the game dwindles the write combining feature found on most medium-high--to--medium end nvidia cards. try disabling it my clicking display properties--advanced--and on the troubleshooting tab choose "diable write combining". that should help. also check your drivers since afterall you stated that the issue persists on more than one application. if you are using a nf3 chipset motherboard try switching to nf4 and 32-bit gart drivers. overheating depends. in my book i overheat when i reach above 75 cel. WE NEED TO REMEMBER TO NOT BE BIASED OR INSULTING WHEN POSTING REPLIES TO THREADS -- ITS A QUICK WAY OUT! cs:s happens to be a program that i enjoy thoroughly. but anyways have your psu checked out. remember that psu never continuously hold stated power efficiency -- they deteriorate over time and could be leaching precious horsepower out of your card. -greg
 
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