Is it time for more power?

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I recently blew out the OS on my soyo dragon 1.33 GHz system and had to rebuild it. After the rebuild it seems that little bit more unstable in games that has me thinking I need a new video card. After 30-60 minutes gaming I start to see flashing textures or rays shooting out from the mouse. Is this overheating in the Video card or harddrive, or bad drivers install? CPU is copper microfinned so it's cool.

I've been tweaking drivers for several days and I'm certain I've got the right ones and that they're all in working order. I'm using a GeForce 2 mmx. probably clocking at 175 Mhz with a blower directly on it.

I'm running win2000 with the original directx 7.0. Whenever I attempt to upgrade to directx 8.1, the display can't keep up with the action and I hang in a few minutes anyway. I think I'll need a new video card before I can install the 8.1

I can get either MSI or ASUS geforce 4 ti 4200 for the same price and I really don't care about the TV in/outs. But which one runs best for 3-4 hours of gaming?

 

[Wolfsraider]

i have a gforce2mx200 64mb card and its overclocked to 200 but no fan

i also have directx8.1 installed

it sounds like you are either having heat issues or have a bad card

my bet is the latter since you have active cooling on the card and you say the cpu is cooled

any of the 4200 series should be able to game 3 to 4 hours easily(i only own the 1 gf2mx card listed and an ati card in my main system so i woun't guess at which are better sorry)

hth

mike

 

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toooooo late! I bought a geforce 4 ti 4200 and no longer have the stability problems.

Maybe the card was bad, but I saw the recent roundup article that had my old card holding the bottom position in all the benchmarks.

Thanks