Did you get a chance to try out the video card?
I just installed it. THERE'S A PROBLEM! Here's the notes I took while doing the installation, after I got Windows booted:
Windows was interminably searching for a suitable driver so I canceled that and went looking for the video drivers I'd used when first setting up the system with the Gigabyte mobo:
175.16_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe (38MB) wouldn't install. It said it didn't contain drivers appropriate for my hardware.
So, I started the installation of the other video driver I had tucked away for the Gigabyte EP 45 UD3R mobo, which is 340.52-desktop-winxp-32bit-english.exe (168MB). That appears to be going OK. I opted to do a custom and "clean install" which wasn't the default. I am letting it install all options.
Right now it's downloading and installing the .NET framework, which is taking quite a bit of time.
Had the typical complaint about not passing standards and I said "Continue Anyway."
The driver appears to be installing...
I'm in low res right now. Presumably I will need to reboot, then change my display settings.
Because the HDMI and DVI connectors are reversed to the way I had the box set up before there will be some changes, but they may be for the better, actually (the main display is now my 23", not the 19" display, for one thing). Not sure. I could, with different cabling change it back to the way it was, I'm pretty sure, but I had a 15' DVI - HDMI cable that I'm using for this.
So, the installation finished and I rebooted and the res was already set at the native res of my 23" display, 1920 x 1080. However there's an odd problem. The display goes very momentarily evidently blank every ~1.1 seconds. The effect is as if you blinked once a second! It's completely regular. I've never seen anything like this on a PC before. I rebooted and went in the BIOS (no flickering there), looked my settings and saw nothing weird... they are basically plain vanilla. There's a setting in there for video frequency and it's set at AUTO. I could change that and see if it changes anything, there are around 5 non-auto settings I could try. I sort of doubt that doing so would change anything. What do you make of this?