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I'd like to add a contrary experience here.
I fairly recently purchased an XFX 6800GT from newegg. It was the only one I could find that was both AGP and has dual DVIs. It also had an attractive coupon promotion that knocked the price to around $290 making it one of the cheapest 6800GTs...
I have to disagree. I'm a 74GB Raptor user for a little over a month now, and the drive IS loud. HD accessing is clearly audible (even above my 7 case fans humming away).
In my case, the performance gains outweigh the acoustic disadvantages. For those interested in silence, Seagate seems...
What a strange coincidence.
My Powercolor 9800pro 128mb also started artifacting two days ago. It usually starts off small with little bits of color popping up here and there, then like a virus, the entire screen begins to get infected.
I've had to replace the fan in the past. The...