Nagasama
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sent my 8800gt in for step up yesterday and went to sucker city to buy a temporary replacement.
got an 8600gt, which i figured would be okay since in our rankings it was above a 7900gs, which served me for so long, so well.
what a tiny little card.
also, no supplemental power (booooooo!).
my PSU has plenty of amperage to handle it but....
i put it in, fired everything up. worked okay for a minute, when i went in to re-install the drivers, it went to switch resolution and then...black screen.
i was getting a 7f error code on my mobo, which apparently could be anything from a bad stick of memory to a bowl of chicken noodle soup (useless troubleshooting codes lol). this was at about eight o'clock when i installed it, and tried to get it to work until about 9:15. my local CC store closes at 10 o'clock, so i gathered up the wife and rushed down there to make an exchange.
i got an 8800gts 320mb instead, adn assured the salespeople that if a defective card (the 8600) had shorted out my entire computer (which seemed to be the case, especially after a couple beers ha ha) that i would be back up there with an ak-47 to exact my vengeance. idiots.
the 8800gts 320 works fine, lol.
i will be returning it when i get my g92 from ups, hopefully around march 4th.
got an 8600gt, which i figured would be okay since in our rankings it was above a 7900gs, which served me for so long, so well.
what a tiny little card.
also, no supplemental power (booooooo!).
my PSU has plenty of amperage to handle it but....
i put it in, fired everything up. worked okay for a minute, when i went in to re-install the drivers, it went to switch resolution and then...black screen.
i was getting a 7f error code on my mobo, which apparently could be anything from a bad stick of memory to a bowl of chicken noodle soup (useless troubleshooting codes lol). this was at about eight o'clock when i installed it, and tried to get it to work until about 9:15. my local CC store closes at 10 o'clock, so i gathered up the wife and rushed down there to make an exchange.
i got an 8800gts 320mb instead, adn assured the salespeople that if a defective card (the 8600) had shorted out my entire computer (which seemed to be the case, especially after a couple beers ha ha) that i would be back up there with an ak-47 to exact my vengeance. idiots.
the 8800gts 320 works fine, lol.
i will be returning it when i get my g92 from ups, hopefully around march 4th.