Thanks Duncan. I am very displeased with EVGA especially after hearing your
comments as well. When I went to Frys's today to pick up the GTS 250 1GB
card, I passed over the EVGA and got the BFG version for about $30 less.
now check this out.. baking the video cards:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792
This might be worth a try except that I wouldn't want to damage my mainboard
with a wonky baked graphics card.. still my mainboard is EVGA also so....
*heh* why not?
----- Original Message -----
From: "DSinc" <dx7...@bellsouth.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 15:42
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
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
