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Originally Posted by Von Taticus
I've always had ATI Graphics cards , mostly made by Sapphire
An never had a problem with any of them. (the old drivers wern't much cop though)
The later CPUs are running faster with faster FSBs and running more sophisticated programs demanding faster graphics. This pushes the laws of physics & electronics closer and closer to the limit. The closer to the limit the hotter we all get. Keep you stuff cool and it'll run for ever.
Personally I use liquid cooling, CPU, NORTHBRIDGE and GPU. all running at 30 degress
whilst overclocking a 2.5 Mhz to 3.2 GMhz and the FSB 400Mhz, ATI 9800 pro
Oh...
I turn my system off when I'm not using it. (trying to save the planet and all  )
Steve (a techy...) |
Sounds like a sick system. I'm openly jealous. I run a pentium 4 2.4Ghz (upgraded heat sink/fan), a Radeon 9700 (stock), with 512 of 333 ram, and an Abit IT7 motherboard. About 2 years into her life, the motherboard had a critical failure related to the onboard network card - everytime i would boot into windows it would hard freeze the system - that's if I have a network cable plugged into the onboard slot. Thought I might have to get a new mobo. Instead I have a cheap network card installed, which works fine, so long as I don't mess with the onboard networking unit. I get the occasional blue screen of death, RAM related I think. When I bought the system I used to overclock it a lot (hence the abit board) but now it's not stable at anything above the factory settings. in fact, when it boots it declares the ram is 266 which freaks me out a bit. She's a bit dodgy, but she runs, for the most part. The ol' 9700 is still running. The occasional ghosting/bad pixels, but she's basically alive.
Kb