[H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
[H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. EVGA Warranty information can be found here: http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/ The 8800 is an OK card still, not sure if it'll be in warranty. Did you register the card when you got it? Christopher FIsk -- klieber: is the distfiles-fetching thing working as far as you're concerned? rac: as far as I'm concerned, yes. If it isn't, give me a minute to shove my head in the sand before you tell me otherwise. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I don't think I registered them, so I may be s.o.l. in that regard. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Fisk" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 05:52 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. EVGA Warranty information can be found here: http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/ The 8800 is an OK card still, not sure if it'll be in warranty. Did you register the card when you got it? Christopher FIsk -- klieber: is the distfiles-fetching thing working as far as you're concerned? rac: as far as I'm concerned, yes. If it isn't, give me a minute to shove my head in the sand before you tell me otherwise. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: "James Boswell" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
Well, one of them will, a pair won't function in crossfire though. On 26 Aug 2009, at 17:39, Veech wrote: hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: "James Boswell" > To: Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I don't think I registered them, so I may be s.o.l. in that regard. You have a standard 1 year warranty without registering. Also, you can see if it'll let you register it now, just say you bought it last month =) Christopher Fisk -- You know you're using the computer too much when: people ask your name, you give them your screen name (for AIM or Yahoo) -- electrofreak -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
Should, ATI is vendor neutral. It's NV who frakks users of Intel chipsets < X58 by preventing SLI. Veech wrote: hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: "James Boswell" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money.
