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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?

brand? for future reference

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

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...

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

agp or pci-e?

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:

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

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..

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

why, cause im laughing?

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...

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

did your machine get too dusty inside?

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.

sounds to me like you did the frying yourself

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

XFX aint bad.. def beter then sparkle