well I'm pretty sure now that the one remaining video card I have is going
bad.. as I was writing an email, the screen turned pink and
blocky/blotchy.. definitely signs of video artifacts. Thing is, this makes
two GeForce cards that have gone bad on me and I'm a little pissed about it,
definitely makes me not real anxious to go back into nVidia. Could have
been the manufacturer EVGA, could have been the specific cards I had, I
dunno.
However I think for now I'll grab a cheap nVidia card and stick it in the
system tomorrow, just to confirm that this is the issue. Then if that
temporarily cures things, I'll look more towards a full-blown upgrade. So
far, I'm thinking about a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, a i7-860, 2 x 2GB DDR3 RAM,
the Radeon HD 5850 card, Windows 7 and maybe a SSD for W7 and other
programs? Not sure on the solid state drive yet.
----- Original Message -----
From: "DSinc" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 19:58
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
Veech,
I do not know from ADAM.......But,
If you want to FOCUS on your "keeper" M/B, then, it reads to me you are
going to have happiness with a "compatible" nVidia video card choice.
I could be wrong, certainly.
Why anyone would choose to drive an ATI video card via an nVidia
NorthBridge/SouthBridge internal I/O combination makes no sense to me.
Again, I could be way wrong!
I have never tried this. Never even thought about it.
Best,
Duncan
On 02/08/2010 22:08, Veech wrote:
huh.. that doesn't seem to bode well for putting the 5850 in my 680i
board, eh?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 18:16
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
I suspect you may be right, Duncan. I recently "upgraded" to an ATI
5770 on an Intel Mobo. While the display looks nice, it's not as
stable as the old GTS8800 I had (which I moved to the other PC). The
drivers seem to be the problem.
I have an ATI 4650 on the AMD system in the office...that seems to
work better.
