Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-29 Thread maccrawj
@hardwaregroup.com 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

Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-26 Thread James Boswell
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

Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Fisk
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

Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-26 Thread Veech
I don't think I registered them, so I may be s.o.l. in that regard. - Original Message - From: Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 05:52 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? On Tue, 25

Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-26 Thread Veech
hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz

Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-26 Thread James Boswell
@hardwaregroup.com 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

Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Fisk
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

[H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-25 Thread Veech
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

[H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?

2009-08-25 Thread Veech
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