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What causes GPU artifacting?

comicsansms
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I know that when a GPU starts to artifact it is probably dead, but what has actually died on it?  When I reseated the heatsink off my really heavily artifacting 8800GT, it stopped artifacting, then I replaced the thermal compound and it started artifacting again (just not as badly) 

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My question is what has failed / failing in my graphics card, is it that the GPU has failed? a 20c capacitor or resistor has failed? or could it just be there is a short circuit somewhere? 

 

I am aware that an 8800GT isn't worth fixing, but I just want to know what the problem could be, whether it is fixable and if it could it translate to a valuable dead graphics card. 

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What thermal compound are you using?

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Usually its either a bad GPU chip itself dying from torture, or more likely the VRAM is going bad. It is a dead card at this point with that. 

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Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

What thermal compound are you using?

Some cheap crap I was given. I applied it a while ago and I have lost the tube. 

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Just now, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Some cheap crap I was given. I applied it a while ago and I have lost the tube. 

Maybe it was conductive, buy Arctic MX-4 which is non conductive and maybe this will fix it

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Sometimes artifacts can be caused by bad overclocking and in rare scenerios also drivers could be at fault. But in most cases it's the card dying.

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