dragonstaff
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4/15/2007 at 05:08 |
My three-year-old Radeon 9600 graphics card has just blown itself up. Thie is the second of these cards to blow ( in two different boxes ) in the last six months or so. Both machines were bought at the same time , from the same ( build to order chain store )source. Two other machines are still going strong. ( me thumps skull, says touch wood ).
My question is this. Are these cards all they are cracked up to be, or should I be looking elsewhere for a video card? The first one was replaced with more of the same, just newer, bigger and faster, but if they have a problem I will not be in a hurry to buy number six.
They are certainly a good enough card for what I do, so I don't need to go for ultimate, all-the-bells-and-whistles graphics card, but I do not want to keep replacing them every few years. None of the rest of the hardware has given any trouble, just the two video cards. The machines they are in are still up there with the best, because we made sure to get cutting edge when we first bought them. ( We had spare money from an inheritance, we don't have spare money now).
On 2007-04-15 at 00:10:28, dragonstaff pooped back and forth... forever
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nurgleming
a wet brain fart  SSHOLEPosts: 161 Registered: 10/18/2006 Offline
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4/15/2007 at 17:12 |
as far as my limited knowledge goes, the 9600 awere great at time of release, could be over clocked or volt modded to go significantly faster, and stand above alot of today's budget cards.
main question is, were they both made by the same manufacturer. even though both are ati, lots of different manufacturers have license to sell/make ati cards, ranging from just buying stock parts and sticking their own label on to actually changing alot of the physical components, but then you knew this already didnt you. you may just be unlucky and got a couple from a crap reseller, or, just have bad luck and its just coincidence that they went close together.
i had a 9800, was most reliable card i had, survived everything to fairly hard knocks from the cpu fan falling onto it to water shorting out one of the monitor outputs.
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fastlane
Zombie scream style  SSHOLEPosts: 672 Registered: 2/7/2004 Offline
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4/15/2007 at 17:50 |
I've had no failures form my ATI 9250 or 9600. The 9250 has been stuck in several different PC's and still plays all the games my kids like.
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