Hey guys and gals just wondering if there was a good program out there to check the temp of your vid card and your computer. I have been playing Skyrim as well as LOTRO and when im playing them i look at buildings and Boulders and tney have little squares on them. I uninstalled all the drivers and when it booted back up it worked great but then a couple days later the issue came back. Im running an XFX ATI Radeon 6830 HD 1GB.


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Look at the left side of the Boulder and thats my issue.

Uhm, do you mean CPU?

The only way to check the temperature of the computer as a whole is to have a sensor or something dangling around in the case itself.

Personally, I use Hardware Monitor.

Also, which driver version are you running?

CPUID Hardware Monitor.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Ok going to be a noob here lol which driver do you mean lol.

The driver for your video card. There are various versions that are borked and can give the effect you are describing.

Also i downloaded something like this before but Norton caught a malware.

For future reference, Norton reports a bunch of false positives. Hardware Monitor is safe.

Its currently the latest driver from AMD for the 64 bit operating system for the 6000 series.


http://xfxforce.com/en-us/Help/Support/SupportFiles.aspx?Serial=N2Y025904

Please provide the actual version number. 12.x...? Please fill in the x.

Current Catalyst is 12.4 that im downloading right now as an update.

For monitoring the video card I prefer http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/or MSI Afterburner. For CPU I use Core Temp.

WEll i downloaded teh GPU-Z but it still says i have teh 12.3 driver even though i just installed the 12.4 hmmmm.



Now im redownloading 12.4???

12.2/12.3 was the borked driver. You need to completely uninstall it first. Then wipe out the left over files. Then install a different driver. I'd start with 12.1, myself. It's got the least amount of reported problems that I'm aware of.

Ok ill do that also. Could my graphics problem be caused of not having a big enough power supply. I was told my PS was good but idk.

What is your PSU?

CoolMax 700 Watt

Not a brand I'm familiar with, but the wattage is fine.

Its ticking me off because i had a XFX 5830 and it worked great i wanted to cross fire my vid card but they no longer made it so i got the 6830 and i have had nothing but problems