hey guys, i bought this card one week ago. at first, i bought the bfg 6600gt 2 weeks ago. i was having stuttering issues. I tryed to fix it, no luck. not horrible and unplayable but annoying. I returned the card and upgraded to a bfg 6800gt. I can say, it is better. but i still have stuttering issues in HL2 and some in UT2004. HL2 being the worst. but, yesterday I wanted to try Far Cry, downloaded the demo and it was horrible. I get artifacts, horrible sound distortion, and eventually the game will crash if i try to turn the game up higher than medium settings at 1200x1024. this card should handle this no problem?? I have holidays now and I have lots of time. Been reading up on this alot and trying many, many different things. About the only 2 things I haven't try is a clean install of xp and a different psu. I don't want to spend money on another psu unless i'm totally sure it is the problem. i don't think it is because i unplugged my extra hd, my dvd and cd rom. that's like 60watts saved?? problems still there.. and my system monitor shows my voltages never vary more that -/+ 0.5V. i think i will try the clean xp install very soon. so this comes to my questions .. 
.. these are new cards, this is normal for there to be issues?? .. in time game patches, drivers, bios upgrades will iron out these wrinkles? .. cause if this is as good as it gets, i will return my card... sorry for the long post, frustrated..
.. these are new cards, this is normal for there to be issues?? .. in time game patches, drivers, bios upgrades will iron out these wrinkles? .. cause if this is as good as it gets, i will return my card... sorry for the long post, frustrated..
