new gpu for now

[thirdshiftdj]

Picked one up super cheap. It'll hold me down until prices fall alittle bit.

Edit: my mind went blank. Almost embarassed to ask but pci-e 16x will work on pci-2.0 right?

 

[Peter.Cort]

oh man. nice looking card there And yeah it will work fine.

 

[thirdshiftdj]

phew!!! I thought I screwed myself over. Did you order a new card from Inferno???

 

[Peter.Cort]

i haven't yet.

how much did you get that card for?

 

[thirdshiftdj]

65 smackeroos

 

[Peter.Cort]

where?!?!?!?!!

i want one

 

[veg1992]

Ahh HD 2900Pro

Looks smexy, but you might want to increase the Fan Speeds a lot because those things run a bit hot... any chance you're planning on flashing it to an HD 2900Xt

 

[thirdshiftdj]

no because I want to keep the timing the pro bios has. I'm going to keep the memory under 1000mhz, anything after that will result in slower timing. I will however flash it w/ a modified bios which will bump up my 3d voltage to 1.15. Will hit XT speeds w/out a hitch.
Peter you have to snipe one off flea bay because its nowhere to be found anywhere else. Also I'll most likely but aftermarket cooling on it. Surprisingly it doesn't draw as much power as everyone makes it out to be. But my psu is up the the task so no worries

edit: forget about aftermarket cooling. I'm not keeping the card that long. Unless I decide to build another system