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Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Poppin' Caps!!!
This is my EVGA Geforce 7600 GT video card. If you click on the picture and look at the silver cylinders, those are capacitors. About half of them have popped open. Those fibers sticking out? I have no idea, but I did not pull them out. This is exactly how the card looked when I opened up my case after my monitor went black and my PC's POST beeps were BEEEEEEP-beep-beep-beep. (That's 1 long, 3 short = vga is fucked).
Luckily, I'm only about 15 minutes away from a Fry's, so I was able to replace it right away, otherwise I would have been waiting a few days because I'd rather order from NewEgg than go to Best Buy or something like that. Plus, my mail/package delivery here in ChiBurbs is a bit dodgy.
Now, I bought my 7600 GT w/ 256MB of onboard RAM in April of 2007 for $109. So I went to Fry's, and decided to pick up a GeForce 8400 GS w/ 512 MB of RAM for $60. Seems reasonable, right? I mean, 512 MB > 256MB, and 8400 > 7600, so my new card should perform better than my old card, right?
WRONG!!!
I pop that puppy in there, and I set up all the drivers and shit, and I launch AudioSurf and OH MY GOD IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT!!! I dick around, I dick around, I dick around... still shit city. So I start up GTA: San Andreas (still haven't gotten past learning to fly a plane, HA!) and sure enough I go from running all setting at max, to knocking everything down a whole bunch... fuck.
SO then I start doing my research - yeah, totally ass backwards on my part - and according to the charts at http://www.tomshardware.com, the 8400 does indeed perform about HALF as well as the 7600.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
After dicking around on the net a whole bunch, I've pretty much determined that in Nvidia numbers, X800 > Y600 > Z400, etc, even if Z > Y > X. I don't get it but, whatever.
The big issue is that I'm using a 2 year old motherboard that's only PCI Express x16, and not PCI Express x16 2.0, so I have slimmer pickings of video cards, and an equivalent PCI Express x16 v. 1.0 video card to my 7600 is going to be about... $109!!!!!
DICKS IN A BASKET, FUCK!!!!
Monday, February 9, 2009
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