Recent content by orinb

Thank you everyone for your advice on this! I sent the card back to Newegg this afternoon. Between incompatibilities with my mobo, and power supply inadequacies, I have decided that my pc isn't going to be able to use this card in its current state. Thank you again to everyone who took the...

Thank you for the advice, it is really starting to sound like my pc just isn't up to the challenge of running this video card.

Gigabyte customer service leaves a little to be desired. Really?! Wow thanks Gigabyte....

As suggested I checked with the xfx website to see if my board supports the video card. I recieved this reply: Next step is checking the mobo website for bios update.

Good to know, when I first heard the fan I thought blast off was imminent...

Hmm thank you, I will check to see if its a mobo conflict. The 6-pin is plugged in. I will also double check the drivers, I was a little tired when I looked at the xfx website and the site was confusing to me initially. I am using a GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 ATX...

Thanks for all the great suggestions guys! I ended up getting a Dell Inspiron 15 Notebook that arrived yesterday. Picked it up in my budget and played Wow last night with some buddies. We won a battleground, ran through a dungeon, and typed crude messages to each other. Good times!

I just purchased a new video card (xfx hd5770) and tried putting it in my pc last night. First the video card fan sounds like its in super turbo mode, then slows down followed by an unusually long pause and a series of clicks from the video card. Finally the pc will post and goes into windows...

Ok so I have 600 bucks and I am buying a Laptop. It needs to be able to play World of Warcraft. I will be using it to get on the internet. If possible I will plug it into my hdmi tv cause my eyesight is bad. I have a couple ideas of my own but I wanted some outside opinions as well if you have...