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Will do. Just sucks that it has to be this way Yeah, it ran fine. The only difference I can figure is that the 6600GT doesn't require any external power connectors where the 8800 requires the two PCIe connectors

Yeah, I had a poor experience with them a few years ago but thwe price was about $100 less than Newegg and I figured i'd give it another go. Lesson painfully learned. Tiger Direct FTL I'll try tweaking my RAM timings and voltage like MarcVenice suggested and also up the GPU fan speed. If that...

I got it from Tiger Direct because there was a low price on it. I'm going to try to return it first but everyone I have talked to has said they unofficially don't do returns. As they will find a reason to deny the return even if its not really a reason.

Yeah I did. I did cleaned out my computer last weekend (dust=heat) and also did a format and fresh install of the OS. I also bought a new PSU for the card upgrade so it would have enough juice. Latest drivers, DirectX version etc. System ran fine with the 6600GT. When I swapped cards out I used...

Has anyone had any recent experience with the BFG RMA process? I got an 8800GTX OC2 two days ago and can't play any game for more than 15 minutes before my system hard locks. I called BFG last night and was told that I could process an RMA but they would not cross ship due to the...