I've owned this card for about 4 months now, never had any issues with crashing or performance until now. I recently updated my motherboard bios and I think there is a connection to the issues but I am not sure what it is.
I try to play Skyrim and after about 5 minutes I get vertical bars and the screen starts to turn black. I've been trying to monitor my card behavior and it seems like it's just not performing as it should. I try to play BF3 and it plays for a few minutes also and then just crashes and reboots the computer. Overheating isn't the issue because it never gets over 60. But clearly something is causing the card to not perform up to par with these games.
As soon as I start a game the usage jumps up to 98-100% and the heat goes jumps up to over 50. I have already tried reinstalling the drivers clean, doesn't seem to be the problem. I have used MSI Afterburner but also doesn't fix anything. For some reason the card is struggling on games it shouldn't and it seemed to be happening after the update I did to my Mobo Bios. Could it be a power problem? I have not touched anything with voltages.
Notes: I updated the BIOs for my motherboard so it could recognize the new memory I got. Also something I noticed was when I put my clocks to maximum the usage goes down and lowers temperature as well but still not where it should be. My GPU clock idles at 157mhz which is minimum and memory clock at 300mhz. It's almost as if the card is trying too hard to run games when it is clearly shouldn't break a sweat.
PC Specs:
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo Mobo
AMD Athlon X3 @ 3.0ghz
16Gb DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengeance memory
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024mb ram 128bit
I try to play Skyrim and after about 5 minutes I get vertical bars and the screen starts to turn black. I've been trying to monitor my card behavior and it seems like it's just not performing as it should. I try to play BF3 and it plays for a few minutes also and then just crashes and reboots the computer. Overheating isn't the issue because it never gets over 60. But clearly something is causing the card to not perform up to par with these games.
As soon as I start a game the usage jumps up to 98-100% and the heat goes jumps up to over 50. I have already tried reinstalling the drivers clean, doesn't seem to be the problem. I have used MSI Afterburner but also doesn't fix anything. For some reason the card is struggling on games it shouldn't and it seemed to be happening after the update I did to my Mobo Bios. Could it be a power problem? I have not touched anything with voltages.
Notes: I updated the BIOs for my motherboard so it could recognize the new memory I got. Also something I noticed was when I put my clocks to maximum the usage goes down and lowers temperature as well but still not where it should be. My GPU clock idles at 157mhz which is minimum and memory clock at 300mhz. It's almost as if the card is trying too hard to run games when it is clearly shouldn't break a sweat.
PC Specs:
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo Mobo
AMD Athlon X3 @ 3.0ghz
16Gb DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengeance memory
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024mb ram 128bit