Recent content by dakernels

I just got my second XFX 6600 gt PCI-E back from new egg. This one works like it's supposed to. I haven't had any problems and I've been trying to stress it so i can return it within the warranty period. So far so good.

What some people have thought is that it is a heat issue that causes damage to the card, which makes more sense to me. But don't the manufacturers stress test their cards before selling them? The XFX card has a huge fan on top of it and was rated as one of the noisier 6600 GT cards, which...

I hope that all it takes is a software patch, but I don't see how it could be a driver problem if the card was working perfectly for a while before it suddenly went bad. Does that make sense to anyone? Plus, my 6600GT was PCI-e and the site implies that it is only a 6600GT AGP problem. I tried...

I had the exact same problem. I just bought a new system put in the XFX 6600GT without any problems. It worked beautifully for about a week. HL2 worked great. Then, while I was playing HL2, the signal to my monitor cut off. I had to restart. Everything seemed fine but then it happened one more...