Thanks for everyone's input on this issue. I believe ive nailed it down to a heating issue.
I used another card, same model. Everything works beautifully.
The problem is, the dead card's puny freaking heatsink and fan. The new card i borrowed and tried in my system has a nice beefy...
Sounds like a short or something hooked up backwards (as hard as that is to do no days)... orrrr.. A bad PSU. I've had a PSU blow up in my face (literally) the first time turning it on.. wasnt a fun expirience. It'd explain the smell.
Pull out the motherboard power connector and look at the...
Good advice, thanks. Brand new cards yes, except the one RMA I did.. i imagine that was a refurb they sent me. I do know to keep in mind clean power vs dirty power. For the life of my two 6600gt's i had the system running on a APC UPS 750VA.. so should have been no issues at all, then i moved...
Interesting to know.
May want to check native resolution though.. Wouldnt it look like crap in a resolution out of its native resolution anyways? I know the native resolution for out 50" Plasma is 1024x768 and it looks fantastic on analog.... clarity wise.
1024x768 is probably the highest computer resolution it will support. HD resolution is seperate then the computer resolutions. Most all HDTV`s are like this. I work for Dell and our 50`Plasma`s max computer res is 1024x768 as well. It`s a TV, not a computer monitor.
Greetings,
My siutation is as follows. A couple years ago I had a evga GeForce 6600GT, eventually the card crapped out on me from heating related issues. I RMA'd the card and got a new one. That one lasted about 6 months, then it died as well. as to why I honestly have no idea. I blamed it...
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