At 02:32 AM 2/9/2010, Veech wrote:
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.
SSD is very nice and well worth it if you have the cash. Not sure if
I'd go i7, since the i5 seems to offer comparable performance for a
lot of apps and saves a fair bit (or did the last time I looked.)
T
