I'm Gone (For Now) :(

[A. Crow]

so, was this one of those exploding nvidia chipsets?

also, when you find jobs, give me a heads up.

[1Trace1]

How about this?
I bet we could scrounge up $90.

[CaffeinePowered]

How about this?
I bet we could scrounge up $90.

I'm a caviar user, I wont touch a card that's under $300. Id rather go without  :-X

Good news is Asus support site says that all card they have 3 year warranties on all VGA cards, and this one is two years old. It just crashed on me without even running anything. One of the cores was idling at 75 C. I will repeat that, one of the cores was idling at 75 C, Id bet if I tried to run TF2 it would get hot enough to boil fucking water.

The other piece of good news is the card has been discontinued, hopefully I can con them into a nice replacement.

[zaneyard]

[quote author=CaffeinePowered link=topic=1294.msg35057#msg35057 date=1220110661]
[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=1294.msg35052#msg35052 date=1220109730]
shoulda got an apple, they woulda replaced your parts.

Har har har, its the DX9 pathways that I think are shot, it was running last night, I got Deus Ex to run. Im going to do some more testing today, but as far as a handout goes unless its going to run TF2 at 60 or more FPS no thanks. Ill take this as a sign to concentrate more on finding a job.
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I definitely USED to get 60 fps with that card @ 1440x900. Tbh, I haven't noticed any huge performance gains since upgrading to the 8800GT, but I upgraded right around the time that lots of people started get huge performance drops due to the new unlocks and whatnot. So, you could definitely make it get somewhere in the neighborhood of 60fps, more if you dropped your settings to medium/low or something. Or you could just forget us and get a job. :
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ptf i run at a good 30 fps sometimes
also ill miss you caff

[Versus]

My 4850s idle at like 75C

[copulatingduck]

My daddy buys all my parts

wut u say?!

[jorge]

[quote author=1Trace1 link=topic=1294.msg35188#msg35188 date=1220146459]
How about this?
I bet we could scrounge up $90.

I'm a caviar user, I wont touch a card that's under $300. Id rather go without  :-X[/quote]

OK, we can get you the Mac equivalent of Trace's link.

[quote author=Versus link=topic=1294.msg35226#msg35226 date=1220164238]
My daddy buys all my parts

wut u say?!
[/quote]

;D

[ktj]

My 4850s idle at like 75C

Same

[Ceceil Felias]

One of the cores was idling at 75 C. I will repeat that, one of the cores was idling at 75 C, Id bet if I tried to run TF2 it would get hot enough to boil fucking water.

That's a cause for concern, BUT GPUs usually only get unstable or damaged at 100°C or higher. Standard desktop CPUs are a lot more temperature-sensitive than their laptop-specific brethren (at least in the older days) and GPUs in that regard.

Regardless, if you can't get a replacement out of ASUS, that X1950 that was offered is a pretty decent card. That's what my dad's computer had while I was down in California for a few weeks, and it ran at settings equal/better than my 8600GTS SLI (without crossfire -- with crossfire, it had no performance gain and instead a performance deficit plus glitching from hell).

[at0m]

You didn't tell me about your history of tearing problems when I spoke to you on the phone. Those are exactly the kind of glitches that I saw in my 4200 before it died, and that went on for about a month after the fan died before the card was completely unusable.

Caviar user aside, I can toss you $100 if I know you're good for it. Get a job, deadbeat.

[CaffeinePowered]

Well i got off the phone with asus today, and the card is under warranty, 3 years ftmfw.

Ill have to talk to the RMA department on Tuesday after the holiday to find out what card I can get because the EN7950 GX2 has long since been discontinued. I'm hoping they dont have any so they have to send me a nice 8 or 9 series card.

[copulatingduck]

Well i got off the phone with asus today, and the card is under warranty, 3 years ftmfw.

Ill have to talk to the RMA department on Tuesday after the holiday to find out what card I can get because the EN7950 GX2 has long since been discontinued. I'm hoping they dont have any so they have to send me a nice 8 or 9 series card.

I will laugh if they offer you a GT.  (:<

[cbre88x]

I saw the 8800 GT in a Circuit City paper for $170 today. Damn capitalism.

[HeK]

I saw the 8800 GT in a Circuit City paper for $170 today. Damn capitalism.

NCIX had the 1gb models for $99 this week.

[copulatingduck]

Hahaha, I got proof they're gonna give Caff a 8600GT:



See look, it's better than the 7950  ;D

[CaffeinePowered]

Hahaha, I got proof they're gonna give Caff a 8600GT:

See look, it's better than the 7950  ;D

$5 says the idiot left it in single render mode, Ive done that before, then forgotten to set it back to SLI. Start wondering why Im getting 40 FPS in TF2 instead of 60+

[ScottyGrayskull]

doesn't scotty have a left over card?

I do, the one Duck sent me that I thought didn't work, but actually did.

Need it in the meantime Caff?