Powerman2442
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Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum. I hope the community is friendly.
I am currently borrowing my friend's old PC, and debating on buying it from him. There is only one thing keeping me from buying it. Windows Vista 64-bit is installed and the ATI Radeon X1800 driver (most up to date driver available) keeps having errors. Resulting in glitchy graphics and automatic system reboots and system hangs. From time to time it does recover from the error and I can continue what I was doing until it decides to glitch out a couple minutes later. He said it has always done it and he reboots it and just ignores it.
From what I have found on Google it seems to be a common problem with Vista and my particular graphics card. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a fix for it, or if I should just get a new graphics card.
The motherboard is an ASUS A8N-Sli SE. The chipset fan that is notorious for failing has failed on it. I removed the fan and fixed it. I am currently waiting for some thermal paste to arrive in the mail. Could this be a problem with an overheating chipset? It only glitches out when I am playing a game like World of Warcraft. In my opinion I was just going to buy two identical NVIDIA graphics card to run in Sli. Since this is an Sli motherboard (not sure why he bought a Sli motherboard and a ATI graphics card).
Which brings me to my next question. If I do decide to buy a new graphics card(s) should I invest it two NVIDIAs or one ATI? Also, what NIVIDIA graphics card would compare (in performance) to my MSI ATI Radeon X1800XT 512 MB?
If anyone has any personal opinions on what I should do… shoot.
Thanks
I am currently borrowing my friend's old PC, and debating on buying it from him. There is only one thing keeping me from buying it. Windows Vista 64-bit is installed and the ATI Radeon X1800 driver (most up to date driver available) keeps having errors. Resulting in glitchy graphics and automatic system reboots and system hangs. From time to time it does recover from the error and I can continue what I was doing until it decides to glitch out a couple minutes later. He said it has always done it and he reboots it and just ignores it.
From what I have found on Google it seems to be a common problem with Vista and my particular graphics card. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a fix for it, or if I should just get a new graphics card.
The motherboard is an ASUS A8N-Sli SE. The chipset fan that is notorious for failing has failed on it. I removed the fan and fixed it. I am currently waiting for some thermal paste to arrive in the mail. Could this be a problem with an overheating chipset? It only glitches out when I am playing a game like World of Warcraft. In my opinion I was just going to buy two identical NVIDIA graphics card to run in Sli. Since this is an Sli motherboard (not sure why he bought a Sli motherboard and a ATI graphics card).
Which brings me to my next question. If I do decide to buy a new graphics card(s) should I invest it two NVIDIAs or one ATI? Also, what NIVIDIA graphics card would compare (in performance) to my MSI ATI Radeon X1800XT 512 MB?
If anyone has any personal opinions on what I should do… shoot.
Thanks