fucking HL2 just fried my 6600GT

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:22 am

and all i did was look at the citadel, with its specmapped shiny walls, something i've done loads of times before. damn thing overheated and just died. every reboot i got some gibberish on-screen

had to revert to my shitty old 5600 for now god damnit

so how was your evening?

Post by **Sevensins** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:27 am

brand? for future reference

Post by **mik0rs** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:28 am

A bit slow, packed for tomorrow and did sweet fuck all else.

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:37 am

Sevensins wrote:brand? for future reference

sparkle

i may try it again later. can overheating leave a card terminally fucked? it WAS unusually warm in here when it happened, and it's recovered from HL2-related crashes before and been fine...

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:41 am

btw any recommendations for a new 6600GT? something quiet around £100-120 range

amazon have the BFG OC for a ludicrous £200 - a joke considering it's x2 the price of many other 6600s for a small performance increase

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:25 am

agp or pci-e?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:58 am

seremtan wrote:
Sevensins wrote:brand? for future reference
sparkle

i may try it again later. can overheating leave a card terminally fucked? it WAS unusually warm in here when it happened, and it's recovered from HL2-related crashes before and been fine...

I'm pretty sure it's a safe assumption that overheating anything will lead to bad things. Oddly I had this old Voodoo banchee that was the bomb when it come out that worked odd but instead of overheating I had to get the card heated up to work properly. When I'd boot my pc I had to let it run at the bios screen for about 3 minutes before I could boot it up or the graphics would be all fucked.

:icon26:

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:13 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:agp or pci-e?

oh, AGP. afaik the 6800 doesn't come in PCI-E flavour and i wouldn't buy it anyway. it's too small an upgrade step to be worth the extra cash

i just checked the guys who put my existing pc together (eclipse) and for about the same price as i paid for this 2 years ago i could get a pretty kickass system: 3.7GHz P4, 2GB DDR3 (i think) RAM, 7800 gfx etc

the way today's 1 grand+ system becomes tomorrows redundant piece of junk really irks me. before i sold my landlady my old celeron 900, she had a crappy little 486 with less than a gig HD and 32MB RAM that cost over a grand in 95. current worth

approximately fuckall to anyone who wants to do more than type letters

Post by **SOAPboy** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:01 am

seremtan wrote:
AmIdYfReAk wrote:agp or pci-e?
oh, AGP. afaik the 6800 doesn't come in PCI-E flavour and i wouldn't buy it anyway. it's too small an upgrade step to be worth the extra cash

i just checked the guys who put my existing pc together (eclipse) and for about the same price as i paid for this 2 years ago i could get a pretty kickass system: 3.7GHz P4, 2GB DDR3 (i think) RAM, 7800 gfx etc

the way today's 1 grand+ system becomes tomorrows redundant piece of junk really irks me. before i sold my landlady my old celeron 900, she had a crappy little 486 with less than a gig HD and 32MB RAM that cost over a grand in 95. current worth approximately fuckall to anyone who wants to do more than type letters

6800s come in pci-e.. unless you mean Base model 6800s.. which is possible..

Btw, dont buy a fucking sparkle card.. that was your problem, you bought shit..

Post by **busetibi** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:27 am

Post by **shaft** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:30 am

Looks like busetibi has his pantys in a knot from R&R

Post by **busetibi** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:32 am

why, cause im laughing?

Post by **tnf** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:42 am

I'm still running my BFG 6800GT OC. It made it through FEAR quite well, and is doing a good job with Call of Duty 2 as well.

I was at best buy today and they're still selling it for 369.99. Can't believe that...

Post by **ajerara** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:47 am

Do you know if the fan on your card is still working? Sometimes they crap out and overheat.

Post by **tnf** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:48 am

did your machine get too dusty inside?

Post by **MaCaBr3** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:34 am

Sparkle 6600GT AGP are the worst piece of crap cards ever dude, they have a serious overheating problem and I strongely recommend you never buy sparkle ever again.

I had a Sparkle too and since then my computer started to reboot or crash randomely. After I googled a bit I found how to enable temperature monitoring and saw that the card heated up too 100°C and crashed at 120°C, average temperature should be between 60 and 80°.

I returned my card and received a new after 1 month. Everything one was ok, it didn't heat up anymore, then one day I start up my computer and blank screen. Mobo doesn't detect vga card anymore.

Because I had some extra cash, I decided to upgrade to a pci-e mobo and new cpu (went from 2500 to 3000 64bit) and bought a MSI 6600GT pci-e.

System is smooth and stable now.

To sum up: 6600GT AGP are unstable and Sparkle is teh suck.

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:14 am

sounds to me like you did the frying yourself

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:46 pm

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... eries.html

XFX aint bad.. def beter then sparkle