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I bought an AMD card, idk whyFollow

#27 Jul 27 2013 at 9:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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The screen you describe is almost always hardware failure induced graphic artifacts. As that one doesn't even have a fan apperently, it's possible the heat sync decoupled fromt he GPU during installation, but you're probably realistically looking at a new video card. You'll also want to take a hard look at your case ventalation too at that point, since it would appear to me that you may have cooked the video card. If you don't have at least 2 120mm fans, one intake, one exhaust, buy a new case too. XP doesn't use the 3D accelerator at the desktop level, Windows 7 does, so you wouldn't have seen the same thing until you entered a game in XP. It is theoretically possible it's a driver causing that, but if it was having problems in XP and it is having problems in a clean stock windows 7 load, I'm calling it video card failure. You could try pulling it and sticking it in a known good system to verify, but for that particular card, you would be better off scrapping it and upgrading anyways rather than wasting more time on trying to fix what is really a very bad video card anyways. Thats my reccommendation anyways
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#28 Jul 28 2013 at 8:38 AM Rating: Good
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Bad relative to every other card on the market, superb compared to whatever the heck was in my old windows 98. Were I to use it for newer games, I'd most likely put it in a blender out of frustration.

I cleaned the PC of amd drivers, and installing the Asus drivers seems to have fixed it.
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