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Originally posted by Deathwing
hahaha, I'm geussing you have one of nVidia's ti 4xxx series.
I had one, and it's sort-of cruel twist of fate failure is what caused me to buy a new one. I taxed the system too much by adding in another HD. So, where does the system turn first for it's "power cuts"? The video card's fan. No! Don't tell me something's wrong or shut down before any bad can happen.
So, the video card no longer has any fan, it over heats, and then permanently burns out said fan, dooming itself. No future chance at cooling, it then proceeds to damage itself. Luckily the fucker was under warranty. Promply got myself a better PSU too. |
Has nothing to do with nVidia cards, in fact I bet $2 that it's more ATI related than anything else.
I used to run ATI cards exclusively. I do a lot of photo work as well as gaming and they did good for a while. Then I bought a Compaq laptop with a ATI card in it, poof! Same thing. Replaced the laptop with another. Poof! Same thing. Rinse and repeat one more time. then I got PO'd and bought a Toshiba laptop with nVidia card, never had a problem since.
My 2nd and 3rd PC's also had ATI cards in them, none OC'd at all, bone stock. As newer games came out demanding more of the card, the same thing would happen as screenshots baove show.
Slowly I replaced all my systems with nVidia cards and everything cleared up. I'm down to one Alienware now (ti4600) and that same 'ol Compaq laptop with the nVidia. Still banging away hard at WoW and others. Zero problems.
At work here we have over 1600 PC's and laptops. The company made a change in direction from any product that would not offer nVidia. We've had waaaaaay to many problems with ATI stuff, from overheating to driver support.
I'd say if you have an ATI card that's not busted and is working, leave it as is until it doesn't do it's job. Then replace it with nVidia.
... Bonz