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Here's my story:
I purchased a BFG 6800GT OC and it worked fine for a period of a few months. After a while, I started noticing the following problems would occur (always after about 5 minutes of gaming):
Civ4 - Entire screen pixilates - system freezes - must reboot.
BF2 - Game crashes to desktop
UT2004 - Game crashes to desktop with UT-generated GPF (gotta love proper exception-handling in a game these days)
So, I call up BFG support. They have me tweak all kinds of bios settings (Asus A7N8X Ultra). They have me try all kinds of different versions of the Nvidia drivers. Nothing solves the problem. They tell me it's my mobo. Ok... new mobo+newCPU is cheaper than a new video card. I also wind up with a new Power Supply Thermaltake 500w.
I buy an ASROCK Dual - very nice board, btw - and, you got it, same problem. So this time they send me an RMA, which I am supposed to pay to ship back. (What ever happened to the remailer? Has the art of taking care of your customers gotten so bad?) I didn't ship the card back before I was supposed to so now I have two 6800GT OCs from BFG... they charged my CC for the second one. Hey, my fault.
Anyway, so the second one works fine for a few months, and last week...
Civ4 - Entire screen pixilates - system freezes - must reboot.
BF2 - Game crashes to desktop
UT2004 - Game crashes to desktop with UT-generated GPF (gotta love proper exception-handling in a game these days)
Anyone else experiencing these kind of problems with the BFG 6800GT OC? I find it quite annoying, I'm getting very frustrated. I basically have an entirely new PC hooked up to the same video card and I wind up with the same problem.
Here's my story:
I purchased a BFG 6800GT OC and it worked fine for a period of a few months. After a while, I started noticing the following problems would occur (always after about 5 minutes of gaming):
Civ4 - Entire screen pixilates - system freezes - must reboot.
BF2 - Game crashes to desktop
UT2004 - Game crashes to desktop with UT-generated GPF (gotta love proper exception-handling in a game these days)
So, I call up BFG support. They have me tweak all kinds of bios settings (Asus A7N8X Ultra). They have me try all kinds of different versions of the Nvidia drivers. Nothing solves the problem. They tell me it's my mobo. Ok... new mobo+newCPU is cheaper than a new video card. I also wind up with a new Power Supply Thermaltake 500w.
I buy an ASROCK Dual - very nice board, btw - and, you got it, same problem. So this time they send me an RMA, which I am supposed to pay to ship back. (What ever happened to the remailer? Has the art of taking care of your customers gotten so bad?) I didn't ship the card back before I was supposed to so now I have two 6800GT OCs from BFG... they charged my CC for the second one. Hey, my fault.
Anyway, so the second one works fine for a few months, and last week...
Civ4 - Entire screen pixilates - system freezes - must reboot.
BF2 - Game crashes to desktop
UT2004 - Game crashes to desktop with UT-generated GPF (gotta love proper exception-handling in a game these days)
Anyone else experiencing these kind of problems with the BFG 6800GT OC? I find it quite annoying, I'm getting very frustrated. I basically have an entirely new PC hooked up to the same video card and I wind up with the same problem.