Here's my story.
About 2 years ago, I built a partially new computer for myself. Gigabyte K8Triton, LeadTek 6600GT, 1GB Memory (2x512mb Corsair), DVD Burner, 200GB Seagate. Soundcard came out of my old system, so did the floppy drive that I rarely use.
Everything was fine for 19 months, one day after leaving Warcraft on while I went shopping, I came back to see some horrible video tearing issues. It was flickering and looked like someone had cut the screen and laid the pieces kinda back together. Well 2D apps worked fine, it was only 3D apps that this happened in. I contacted LeadTek through their website, got a new card after shipping mine in. The replacement card had an issue right away, it made noises minimizing/maximizing windows, and a horrid clattering noise during any 3D app/game. I contacted LeadTek again through their website, again sent it in and got another replacement.
I've had this replacement card for almost a month now, two days ago it started acting up, so I decided to try Counter Strike: Source stress test, and it started jumping, locking, and losing textures. Today, while playing WoW it started locking up, typing was really slow, video and textures starting cutting in/out and finally my system locked. I rebooted and was treated to garbage characters appearing and disappearing on the screen. I rebooted again, this time all the "DOS" text was just garbeled dots. Rebooted again and here I am now, wondering is it most likely just the cards, or has my system some how mysteriously came up with a way at eating this replacement video card?
My original card obviously overheated at some point, because when I was testing it out, the fan was making weird noises. The first replacement obviously was a bad card because it did it in my system and my friends system. This last card however, lasted a month, I thought maybe it was my OS and drivers causing some slowdowns as after I reloaded my system, it was fine, except in large raids when my text typing would slow down.
Sorry to ramble, but anyone think of anything I might want to check out? Or should I just assume LeadTek's refurbished cards suck, and I need to fork out another $10 for a replacement? (shipping cost that is).
About 2 years ago, I built a partially new computer for myself. Gigabyte K8Triton, LeadTek 6600GT, 1GB Memory (2x512mb Corsair), DVD Burner, 200GB Seagate. Soundcard came out of my old system, so did the floppy drive that I rarely use.
Everything was fine for 19 months, one day after leaving Warcraft on while I went shopping, I came back to see some horrible video tearing issues. It was flickering and looked like someone had cut the screen and laid the pieces kinda back together. Well 2D apps worked fine, it was only 3D apps that this happened in. I contacted LeadTek through their website, got a new card after shipping mine in. The replacement card had an issue right away, it made noises minimizing/maximizing windows, and a horrid clattering noise during any 3D app/game. I contacted LeadTek again through their website, again sent it in and got another replacement.
I've had this replacement card for almost a month now, two days ago it started acting up, so I decided to try Counter Strike: Source stress test, and it started jumping, locking, and losing textures. Today, while playing WoW it started locking up, typing was really slow, video and textures starting cutting in/out and finally my system locked. I rebooted and was treated to garbage characters appearing and disappearing on the screen. I rebooted again, this time all the "DOS" text was just garbeled dots. Rebooted again and here I am now, wondering is it most likely just the cards, or has my system some how mysteriously came up with a way at eating this replacement video card?
My original card obviously overheated at some point, because when I was testing it out, the fan was making weird noises. The first replacement obviously was a bad card because it did it in my system and my friends system. This last card however, lasted a month, I thought maybe it was my OS and drivers causing some slowdowns as after I reloaded my system, it was fine, except in large raids when my text typing would slow down.
Sorry to ramble, but anyone think of anything I might want to check out? Or should I just assume LeadTek's refurbished cards suck, and I need to fork out another $10 for a replacement? (shipping cost that is).
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