New Video Card time – Again
Posted by stargrace in General Gaming, Of Interest, Real Life, tags: computers, video card
Welp, it finally happened. I was getting fed up with the video card issues I was having, and have been having for quite some time. Almost as soon as I installed my 8800 Nvidia as it were. No, I didn’t have a warranty for it and even if I did I didn’t want another nvidia sent back to me.
My power supply is also quite low, only 450, and I didn’t know if it was a card issue, power supply, or something else. It’s cheaper to get a new power supply then it is to get a new video card (even I know that in my VERY slim knowledge of computer bits) so I took my card out, put in my old 7600 (also by Nvidia) and put the 8800 in a different computer. Booted up EQ2 on the second PC and less then an hour later (the 2nd computer has a higher power supply) the exact same graphic issues I was experiencing on my own pc. Great. Time for a new card.
This time around I’m going with an ATI. I’ve been with Nvidia for my entire gaming career (if you can call it that). I can’t afford to keep buying new cards every single year but since my job involves playing video games I’m not left with a whole lot of options. Newegg.ca offers very nice prices, and I settled on an ATI Radeon HD 4870 – 1gig for $280 Canadian, delivered in 5 business days.
Tomorrow I’ll go out and pick up a new power supply and then once the new card gets here I should be all set. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.
Some times I really dislike computers.
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This is the card I use that runs the beast Age of Conan at 80-100FPS, so needless to say, your games will sparkle and shine with gorgeous animations to boot.
Enjoy!
I am bad when it comes to gaming. One of the first things I do, is set the graphics to low or medium. I don’t think I’ve played games on high graphic settings since I first bought the computer I use today. I am always worried that I’ll get 5-10fps, as I only have a GeForce 7800 in my desktop. :$ Maybe next year I’ll get a new, bigger, faster computer… if I can afford it…lol. Good luck with your new video card. I hope it works well.
[...] MMOQuests recently mentioned her need for a new video card and started me thinking about hardware requirements for gaming. EvE Online recently dropped their Classic graphics and moved its players to a Premium Lite which required a faster, better video card. Of course “faster and better” were relative, as online gaming doesn’t usually require video cards that are at today’s top of the line, as they have to push out pixels to tens of thousands of players, but the fact remains that gaming can be an expensive hobby. Have you ever been left behind thanks to a hardware limitation? Let me know in the comments below. [...]