Artifacts with GTX280 in Crysis

[nekrosoft13]

fan can be adjusted in that tool that replaced ntune. but i wouldn't recommend it.

Use rivatuner to adjust the fan.

[miragedarksun]

OK, I've done some more tests. Turns out the fan does spin dinamically if no profile is loaded in nvidia's System Tools (former nTune). However, if the fan is left on its own, it doesn't spin fast enough to prevent 80C, in fact it seems to consider it a fair temperature (as I would, considering it's GTX280). But unfortunately, that temp is enough to cause my problematic crysis artifacts.

BTW, FurMark does raise the fan to 100% and still the temp climbs to 89C. No artifacts or any problems whatsoever. Only crysis seems to be affected as soon as it hits 80C.

Is anyone from nvidia reading this thread? Is this situation normal? Please help.

EDIT: I've re-run crysis with dynamic fan and this time it went to 100% and kept temps at about 75C, preventing the artifacts but ruining my mind with the noise... Upon a fresh reboot though, the fan stays at about 60% and takes a long time to go beyond that (running furmark beforehand helps, like I did before

[Greasy]

I would RMA that bad boy. It shouldn't artifact at those temps by any means. Sucks to be without your card for a few days, but maybe they offer an advanced RMA.

[wollyka]

Originally Posted by Greasy

I would RMA that bad boy. It shouldn't artifact at those temps by any means. Sucks to be without your card for a few days, but maybe they offer an advanced RMA.

+1 at 80C, artifacts shouldn't appeared

[miragedarksun]

For the record, at least one other person is having pretty much the same problem, but with an EVGA GTX280 FTW.

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=451101

As for me, I've sent the card to RMA and I'm still waiting for a reply.