Recent content by Ebezz

Thanks Denithor, I decided to get a 3870 from 'egg. Should last me 'til I get the next machine. I've been looking throught the Avadirect assemblies already. I installed the atitool, and the present card is averaging 70ºC for just some internet searchs. <Waves> "goodbye ol' friend" BTW I...

Is my psu gonna hafta be upgraded for a 8800 or 4850? Another 2 bills, yikes!

What you explained is almost identical to what I'm experiencing. :( I thought about the warranty prior to tearing into the hsf. It was purchased from the Egg in Aug. '06, and was unfortunately out of warranty by almost a year. I guess I'm in the market for a new video card, <sigh> I'm...

Well, pulled off the vid card, cleaned it and blew air through the heat sink. Actually pulled off the heat sink and fan, cleaned off the old thermal paste and reapplied artic silver 5. (had some left over from a previous build) No change. Temps still at 66º a start up and holding. But.. I did...

I'll try that later tonight. "crosses fingers"

Thanks for replying, I know there must be a thousand "Help me!" threads every day. Well, I try to blow out my case once every month or so... I did do that last week. I checked the temp on the card. Just at Idle it's at 66ºC! I checked Everest and the power to the +12v line is at 13.5v...

Thanks in advance for looking and helping! I think my video card is shot! I used to be able to run WOW and Oblivion at High settings, but slowly I was getting more and more artifacts during WoW. I installed the new Catalyst 8.6 Driver and "POW"! It started crashing during the BG's, now it...

Rebate is now $170 for a total of $550!! Linky

That's a great way to go if you haven't used GCO before or have multiple accounts. I'm all about inexpensive!!

Buy.com has the Logitech LX 710 desktop on sale for $49.99 use the 7% off for the 4th and the $20.00 MIR from Logitech = $26.49 Shipped. Sounds like a good deal to me. LInky #1 Hot deal for me.

Thanks Guys!! Would you recommend Flashing the card's bios to make it a 9800 xt. I've been holding off doing that since I had enough video power for my uses without. From the guides I have the card with the r360 core and already upgraded the cooler. I would have to reinstall a floppy drive...

I am seriously considering purchasing a new 22" monitor to use in tandem with my 17" Sony SDM-HX73. I have read several places to make sure that the GPU/CPU can handle the additional stress. I use my computer for my Engineering Bus. mostly word processing, excel, surfing and lots of 2D Cadd. I...

Got in early this morning for 2. promo code didn't stack for both. so 2 for $155. $0.242/ raw Gb NOt too bad. Deals dead now. 1st post, long time lurker