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Should I KEEP my video card?
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mangyrat wrote: all the bulls **** aside you will be wanting to get at least a 9600gt or better yet a 8800gt in the mid price range. take a look at XFX for overclocking and not voiding the warranty. the better card in the long run will be the 8800gt both can be found under $200 9600gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150277 8800gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150253 Didn't follow the links you provided, but I would like to advise against getting an XFX 8800GT. I did, for my brother, and found out XFX tried to save a dime on their design, and included a non-regulated fan on their '8800GT Alpha Dog Edition'. The fan runs at 100% non-stop, and the thing sounds like a hoovercraft. Luckily, I have a good relationship with the shop I got it from, and they provided me with a replacement Club3D 8800GT, which I will be installing in my brother's system coming weekend. Again: make 100% sure the XFX card you are getting has a regulated fan, or otherwise, buy something else, and avoid XFX at all. Hopefully that will teach them to try and save a dime on something as essential as a good fan on a graphics card. Regards, Patrick. |
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Should I KEEP my video card?
all the bulls **** aside you will be wanting to get at least a 9600gt or
better yet a 8800gt in the mid price range. take a look at XFX for overclocking and not voiding the warranty. the better card in the long run will be the 8800gt both can be found under $200 9600gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150277 8800gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150253 "Robert Blass" wrote in message news My 6800GS is made by EVGA is *IS* PCI-E On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:48:40 +0200, "ShutEye" sayd the following: A modern quad core system's motherboard will NOT use an AGP socket such as your video card requires, but rather will use a PCI-E socket video card. Though quad core motherboards with an AGP slot may not exist, the 6800 GS 128 MByte display adapter exists in AGP and PCI-e versions. Asrock have made a few with both agp and pcie. Not top of the line though. |
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Should I KEEP my video card?
In article , mangyrat wrote:
when did XFX start doing this with the fans? it would tick me off bad if i got a card like you described. ill have to stop recommending them if i ever run in to that problem. See their support forums. You can find the link if you Google this group for 'XFX 8800GT'. Someone provided a link to that forum, and over there, someone else made a list of all the XFX part #s and the type of fan they have. It's a only a small portion of the XFX 8800GT's which have a non-regulated fan... well good thing i got a adjustable fan on my alpha dog 8800gt with the fan set at 65% i don't hear it over the case fans. Consider yourself lucky then. Regards, Patrick. |
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Should I KEEP my video card?
when did XFX start doing this with the fans?
it would tick me off bad if i got a card like you described. ill have to stop recommending them if i ever run in to that problem. well good thing i got a adjustable fan on my alpha dog 8800gt with the fan set at 65% i don't hear it over the case fans. sorry for the delay on posting i was on vacation "Patrick Vervoorn" wrote in message l... In article , mangyrat wrote: all the bulls **** aside you will be wanting to get at least a 9600gt or better yet a 8800gt in the mid price range. take a look at XFX for overclocking and not voiding the warranty. the better card in the long run will be the 8800gt both can be found under $200 9600gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150277 8800gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150253 Didn't follow the links you provided, but I would like to advise against getting an XFX 8800GT. I did, for my brother, and found out XFX tried to save a dime on their design, and included a non-regulated fan on their '8800GT Alpha Dog Edition'. The fan runs at 100% non-stop, and the thing sounds like a hoovercraft. Luckily, I have a good relationship with the shop I got it from, and they provided me with a replacement Club3D 8800GT, which I will be installing in my brother's system coming weekend. Again: make 100% sure the XFX card you are getting has a regulated fan, or otherwise, buy something else, and avoid XFX at all. Hopefully that will teach them to try and save a dime on something as essential as a good fan on a graphics card. Regards, Patrick. |
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Should I KEEP my video card?
"Patrick Vervoorn" wrote in message ... In article , mangyrat wrote: when did XFX start doing this with the fans? it would tick me off bad if i got a card like you described. ill have to stop recommending them if i ever run in to that problem. See their support forums. You can find the link if you Google this group for 'XFX 8800GT'. Someone provided a link to that forum, and over there, someone else made a list of all the XFX part #s and the type of fan they have. It's a only a small portion of the XFX 8800GT's which have a non-regulated fan... well good thing i got a adjustable fan on my alpha dog 8800gt with the fan set at 65% i don't hear it over the case fans. Consider yourself lucky then. Regards, Patrick. XFX and some other card makers have changed how the fans on their card run because of possible overheating issues with the fist gen 8800GT cards. I know that a lot of makers have larger fans now, or have totally changed the stock HSF. I took a look at some of the new XFX models and they have a new HSF design. I have the XFX Alpha Dog XXX which is factory OC'ed at 670. I bought it when they were first coming out. I have a fan that runs at 30% until the temp hits like 100C! So I have RivaTuner setup to control the fan. I have it set to run at 80% when it hits over 70C. At this setting the card stays right at 70-72C during heavy load. At 80% I can hear the fan, but it's not bad. My ATI X1900XT was a lot louder. That cards fan would rev up to 100% as soon as you started a game. I do have a question for anyone that is also using RivaTuner for fan control. The way I have it set up took a long time to get the settings right. I made profiles for different temps so the fan automatically runs faster the hotter the card gets. I can also run the launcher app to set the speed. I wondering if I upgrade my drivers am I going to have to redo my settings? So far Nvidia hasn't had a driver update, so I haven't had to deal with it yet. TIA. JLC |
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