similar stuff happened to with my old card 

looked into it a bit more by running different 3d applications at the same time.

when the problem has started, i've found that running 3ds max will stop the problem from showing up in videos but it will cause the flickering when running doom3 at the same time.
closing 3ds max will stop the problem in doom3, but the lines appear in videos again.

i don't really know all that much about memory management or really video cards in general though. i guess i'll have to spend more time on google. :S 

I would try older drivers (eg half a year old, then a year old). Well, unless your's are old, try the latest ones then. Some similar problems happened to me on Linux and I could fix it with different drivers. 

Here's some great photos and write up about ancient personal computers.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/dawn_personal_computer_altair_ibm_pc?page=0%2C0 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Jz7IMwBt4 

I had lots of problems with my 6600GT on Linux recently. Graphic corruption, crashes and freezes happening with OpenGL applications (it even corrupted Quake demo recording). I tried various driver versions with no luck. Then I reinstalled Windows XP on another partition to play some QuakeLive. I had some (very) minor corruption even there, some geometry flashes every ~5 minutes.

Now I am back in Linux and everything is fine. Windows fixed my Linux. Fuck! 

 

How's your new PC? Post pics of the surrounding environment of the monster. 

Sometimes hardware *does* seem to need resetting, though i've never seen what you're describing... and can't think of the reason either ? (I've got an original 6800 agp).

I suppose you've got nvclock installed.
It's got nice thermal monitoring as well as overclocking, etc. 

I could play several hours over two days without problems. Now they are back and affect Windows as well. Well, somehow this is good because the chance of me buying some new PC rises. 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-hd-5870,review-31685.html

Also this looks cool:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/skeleton-torture-rack,review-31683.html 

I ordered a tv from digitaldirect.co.uk about 3 and a half weeks ago, and it was meant to take 3-5 working days to arrive, so after several interim phonecalls and PM with them, yesterday I called them and they announced for the third week running that it would likely be next week.
So I cancelled it. It will probably take 5 - 7 worling days for them to refund my money, but luckily I had enough to order another one.
I ordered the same model with 3 years warranty instead of 4 for �30 less delivered approx 24 hours ago (lunchtime yesterday) and it is now in my livingroom! Hooray for Amazon, boo-raa for Digital Direct! 

Amazon is amazing. It's the only place I go to order stuff anymore. 

Online is nearly always better for buying stuff.

In fact the only things come to mind as being better bought in reality are houses and cars.

And ice cream. 

to a third party retailer, I did ask the amazon online support for help with the process, but their answers didn't look like they even understood my questions. 

24" ViewSonic HDMI 1080p

(and a teaser)

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7241/image003ex.jpg 

than a huge monitor is 2 huge monitors. n1 :) 

Oh, new map in the pipeline (ie finally VISed)? 

One of my old ones just broke, so I need a replacement, and have absolutely no clue what models to look into.

Obviously, I'm into programming, gaming, and a bit of design, so I can't get a model with fucked up colors or lots of lag. (My second screen is an old 17" crt, so I still have a gaming/colour fallback.) The bigger, the better. What models do I need to look at? Can anyone recommend some model that works great for him? 

Asus over Samsung. The two Asus LCDs I have seen are really good, mine is a 24" 1080p with a 2ms response time. The two Samsung I have seen, this one I am looking at now has a dead pixel (only 1 TBF) but the one I got last January was dead by April..... 

Crazy processor prototype - paving the way to an in-advertant Skynet scenario all the more...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-Cloud-Cores-Processor-CPU,news-32351.html 

Case: Fractal Design Define R2
PSU: Corsair 650TX 650W
Motherboard: MSI P55-CD53
CPU: Intel i5 750
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro H50
RAM: Corsair 2x2GB, DDR3 1333MHz
+ 1 x additional Noctua 120mm 700rpm 6,9dba case fan

Going to migrate over my old harddisks, audiocard and videocard. Hopefully I get my package before Christmas :) 

Say I was hypothetically going to get a new computer soon (I need to get the whole lot, the only thing worth keeping off this old one is keyboard/mouse and audiocard ;)), and wanted a decent package that could run current gen games okay, any suggestions?? Gotta be available in the UK of course...

Thinking of something like this with an extra gig of ram: http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=DRSSX002&l=en&m_30=322642&oc=D00SX02&rbc=D00SX02&s=dhs 

GT220?!!!

Not a very good gaming GPU.
If you cant be arsed to build one yourself (which is always the better option) try:

http://www.desktop-option.co.uk/index.php?cPath=13_18

I got mine from there 2 years ago - good value for money. Pay by Direct Debit or Paypal though (heh - I payed by transfer and it delayed shipping by 2 weeks)

Or just get one from

http://cclonline.com

Buy it in bits and build it yourself.

A Radeon 5770 is a Directx11 card with reasonable performace and a �110 price tag.

CCL have some ready built PCs aswell, I would recommend them, have bought many things from them in the past and the service and prices are good.

Problem with Dells and HPs, Compaqs etc is that most of the hardware is OEM - your GPU might not support new drivers as they come out, unlike if you buy retail versions. 

Jago has already bollocked me for thinking of anything with a 220 in it.

I know naaarthing about such things and I'm not going to try building one.

<ShambIer> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/12454-12454-3329740-64546-64546-3999459-4032770.html
<ShambIer> +
<ShambIer> http://www.dabs.com/products/xfx-geforce-gtx-260-576mhz-896mb-pci-express-2-0-dvi-63VR.html?refs=422790000

This is another option - retail GFX card too.

Bear in mind that a lot of these specialist site systems come without OS and shit, like I just saw a decent looking one on that Desktop site but by the time it's upgraded to similar spec to the HP it's �100 more.