Veech,
Like your upgrade plan. Wish I could follow. Not yet.
Not to add salt, but as you mentioned EVGA, I can share that have had
bad service from their cards (4 of them). All 4 cards failed within
warranty and were replaced via RMA. OK. But then 3 of the replacements
failed hard again within 6-9 months. I do not use or recc EVGA any longer.
Just now I use Asus nVidia cards(2) and an Asus ATI(1) card; plus 2 very
old and still very good Matrox cards! LOL!
Best,
Duncan
On 02/09/2010 01:32, Veech wrote:
well I'm pretty sure now that the one remaining video card I have is
going bad.. as I was writing an email, the screen turned pink and
blocky/blotchy.. definitely signs of video artifacts. Thing is, this
makes two GeForce cards that have gone bad on me and I'm a little pissed
about it, definitely makes me not real anxious to go back into nVidia.
Could have been the manufacturer EVGA, could have been the specific
cards I had, I dunno.
However I think for now I'll grab a cheap nVidia card and stick it in
the system tomorrow, just to confirm that this is the issue. Then if
that temporarily cures things, I'll look more towards a full-blown
upgrade. So far, I'm thinking about a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, a i7-860, 2
x 2GB DDR3 RAM, the Radeon HD 5850 card, Windows 7 and maybe a SSD for
W7 and other programs? Not sure on the solid state drive yet.
----- Original Message ----- From: "DSinc" <dx7...@bellsouth.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 19:58
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
Veech,
I do not know from ADAM.......But,
If you want to FOCUS on your "keeper" M/B, then, it reads to me you
are going to have happiness with a "compatible" nVidia video card choice.
I could be wrong, certainly.
Why anyone would choose to drive an ATI video card via an nVidia
NorthBridge/SouthBridge internal I/O combination makes no sense to me.
Again, I could be way wrong!
I have never tried this. Never even thought about it.
Best,
Duncan
On 02/08/2010 22:08, Veech wrote:
huh.. that doesn't seem to bode well for putting the 5850 in my 680i
board, eh?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin"
<amar...@charter.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 18:16
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
I suspect you may be right, Duncan. I recently "upgraded" to an ATI
5770 on an Intel Mobo. While the display looks nice, it's not as
stable as the old GTS8800 I had (which I moved to the other PC). The
drivers seem to be the problem.
I have an ATI 4650 on the AMD system in the office...that seems to
work better.
