video card vent.......

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topdeeni

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soooooooooo.... I ordered a new vid card from Tiger Direct after I maqde certain sure it was to spec for my MoBo and more importantly the power supply..

I take all the steps involved with hooking this thing up... fire up the PC, installthe driver and off we go. Of course I need to make sure everything is copestetic with what I do... video capturing/editing, digital photography, everyday stuff andf the all important gaming.

GAMING... keep in mind I ordered a BFG Tech GeForce GTX 285, PCI X v.2, 1024 MB GDDR3...blah blah blah... Made sure my system is compatible with said video card which it is all the way down to the requirements for a power supply... I am all psycho to see how this stomps a mudhole in the Sparkle Video card I initially got for this thing.... I already run all my games wide open.. in the true essence of Spinal Tap I am ALWAYS looking for 11 on the volume knob...just to see!

I fire up AIX 2.0 a brandy new mod for BF2 with its own ranking system away from EA games, load into the server I run to see how sily smooth my game play has gotten. The second I unload bombs from a plane, change my view to rearview and watch them destroy a tank it all locks up... I was barely able to recover explorer after killing the game in task manager...

Since then the video card has proven its inability to function. After the first incident it was ALL DOWN hill from there t0o the point the card is out of my PC, back in the box and ready to go back to Tiger Direct... Things lucky I didn't pull a Jed Clampit and take it out back for a shootin' by the cement pond....
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In the mean time I reinstalled the Sprakle video card I hate so much, restored the drivers for it, deleted ALL my games including pulling the tidy bowl man in my registry and then had to freshly reinstall them along with all the updates and patches to make them work.... It also for some odd reason mangled my Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite which had to be reinstalled as well...

All is now restored and this is actually the second bad lap have done with BFG Tech; I had one in a different PC a while back.. should have learned and I feel much better now... All I can think of when I see my Sparkle video card is Mr Sprakle from the Simpsons...

 
Look on the sticker and post up the amperage on the 12V rails.

There could be between 1 and 4 of them, just list all of the amperages. You could also just post your power supply and I could search tigerdirect/newegg for the specs.

 
Sounds like when you go big with a video card it`s just like going big with a turbo with all the ramifications if even one thing is off your ******ed
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Hey maniac did you make enough sales so we can put a rotated setup on your car yet? Come on work those $8000 bonus's
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Have another 1st time home buyer closing coming up next month, but unfortunately I don`t make 8 grand commission on those that would take a sales price of over $500,000.

 
I will crack my case again soon and take a look, I also cant find the *** receipt for it right now. I know for a fact my power supply should handle it as I made sure it was big enuff and ready for SLi if need B... The only thing I can figure is there is already to much draw on it so it may not B giving good current.

The point is sort of moot anyways... I just took the card down to my local UPS depot to return it. I stuill have a decent size card that does what I need... Like boost in a STi I am a FPS freek with a PC.

 
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PNY or EVGA mate.

I have 3 old BFGtech cards here that are junk.

That being said...it probably wasn't the cards fault. Sounds like it didn't have enough go juice going to it.

 
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XFX and EVGA have the best warranties. I prefer EVGA unless I want to resell the card later (EVGA has lifetime warranty, XFX has double lifetime).

 
I've had hit or miss results with XFX gear. Fuctionally, they work fine, but with their mobos, they set up some of their connections in really odd places. Makes them hard to work with (I build custom gaming rigs). Their customer service techs are great however, usually repond to tickets within a hour or two.

 
ewww, nvidia chipsets...

I'm so psyched that XFX started producing ATI cards. Finally, good ATI customer service! (I admit though that I haven't owned an ATI card in quite some time, just because Nvidia has had the best bang/buck whenever I've purchased).

Ty, do you need an assistant
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ewww, nvidia chipsets...
I'm so psyched that XFX started producing ATI cards. Finally, good ATI customer service! (I admit though that I haven't owned an ATI card in quite some time, just because Nvidia has had the best bang/buck whenever I've purchased).

Ty, do you need an assistant
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I'm the exact opposite. ewww ATI. Their drivers are abysmal and the catalyst control panel is just awful. They've gotten better but them making crappy drivers a while ago was enough. That and I had the memory blow out on like 3 ATI cards.

I switched to an 8800GT and haven't looked back.

 
I agree, the 8800gt was the best buy I've ever made, although I can't believe I payed $265 for it and a cooler...

I can probably find one for $65 if I look now
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Got the Sprakle thing back in my PC and the drivers relaoded.. I am finding the driver that is one version old is much smoother than the newest one out....

I am sooo on tyhe fence twixt NVidia and ATI it isn't even funny. IT usually boild down to what other people have said here... bang for the buck and I really dont like the ATI interface.

Uknoiw in hindsight... I used to have a nasty nasty gaming machine that had two BFG Tech cards running SLi... I had a plethora of "ghost in the machine" issues with it that never seemed to relate to video issues... I wonder if the dualing vid cards were the cause of months of issues and me evdentually offing the POS; Although I noticed last night one of the oldest homebuilt PC's in my house has an old BFG Tech video card with a cooked fan on the southbridge processor.. I use it as a remote gaming server for the secondary network in my home; that way I can still sort of game but offline as the wife requires ALL the bandwidth for her work....(winks).

 
Well, SLI has come a long way. It used to have tons of issues, like game incompatibility and small gains, but now multiGPU tech is much better. There's even tech to offload graphic work to extra cards not in SLI, like your onboard graphics card! ATI has this at least, but I'm pretty sure Nvidia does too.

 
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