I'm looking to upgrade my 7900GT to something new.
My water cooling leaked all over the back of the card while i was on vacation. I had it volt modded to 1.45V and OC'd like crazy at the time. i get back and my room mate is like, your computer's not workin. it was a train wreck to say the least.
I took everything apart and scrubbed it with alcohol. you can still see some corrotion on some of the sodering points. Amazingly, it still worked, but i get artifacting regularly. At stock voltage and clock, its very annoying. I havent been gaming cuz it doesnt work any where as well as it used to and i dont want to strain the card and be totally sol if it decides to go on me
my rig is as follows:
AMD 3800+ x2, 1.8 MHz, was water cooled, now Scythe Ninja
2 GB DDR 400 Corsair Value Select
MSI KN8 Neo4-F, nvidia nforce4 standard chipset
36 GB WD Raptor (OS)
500 GB WD Seagate (Media)
7900GT stock w/ Zalman VF500 and ramsinks
Antec 550W Trupower PSU (+5V, 40A;+12V, 30A; 3.3V, 32A;-5A, .5A; -12V, 1A; +5V B, 2A)
Can I use a new generation card, i'm thinking ATI's 3870 or 4850 card with out bottle necking at my ram or processor? I definitely want to get back to OC'ing my processor and try and run crysis.
I dont even know if my rig will run the newer cards, or an ATI card for that matter because it is the nForce 4 standard chipset. My PSU is a concern too. the specs for the 4850 are:
"450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended" I'm pretty sure a "6-pin connector" is th
e 5V rail, in which case i have 200W available, no problem, but i'm not sure if i'm right.
I want to upgrade to a higher bandwith processor/ram in the near future and would like to keep the gfx card. i think i want to wait for a DDR3 rig to be affordable (totally skip DDR2)
My water cooling leaked all over the back of the card while i was on vacation. I had it volt modded to 1.45V and OC'd like crazy at the time. i get back and my room mate is like, your computer's not workin. it was a train wreck to say the least.
I took everything apart and scrubbed it with alcohol. you can still see some corrotion on some of the sodering points. Amazingly, it still worked, but i get artifacting regularly. At stock voltage and clock, its very annoying. I havent been gaming cuz it doesnt work any where as well as it used to and i dont want to strain the card and be totally sol if it decides to go on me
my rig is as follows:
AMD 3800+ x2, 1.8 MHz, was water cooled, now Scythe Ninja
2 GB DDR 400 Corsair Value Select
MSI KN8 Neo4-F, nvidia nforce4 standard chipset
36 GB WD Raptor (OS)
500 GB WD Seagate (Media)
7900GT stock w/ Zalman VF500 and ramsinks
Antec 550W Trupower PSU (+5V, 40A;+12V, 30A; 3.3V, 32A;-5A, .5A; -12V, 1A; +5V B, 2A)
Can I use a new generation card, i'm thinking ATI's 3870 or 4850 card with out bottle necking at my ram or processor? I definitely want to get back to OC'ing my processor and try and run crysis.
I dont even know if my rig will run the newer cards, or an ATI card for that matter because it is the nForce 4 standard chipset. My PSU is a concern too. the specs for the 4850 are:
"450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended" I'm pretty sure a "6-pin connector" is th
e 5V rail, in which case i have 200W available, no problem, but i'm not sure if i'm right.
I want to upgrade to a higher bandwith processor/ram in the near future and would like to keep the gfx card. i think i want to wait for a DDR3 rig to be affordable (totally skip DDR2)