Cheap, power ful GFX?

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TeeJay

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Hello, I had a 7600GS that got fried today.

Anyway, lets forget that now...I want to buy a new one, a better one, but also for a low price, because where I live, things are sold for x2 price things are sold in Newegg...

I don't play games that use up lots of memory - I play things like CSS, and RuneScape...

And please add it's info, I'd like to know what's it about, what's good about it, and what's bad about it.

Thanks :D
 
how much do you wanna spend.

and what is the rest of your rig ?
 
TeeJay said:
Hello, I had a 7600GS that got fried today, and that's because of some idiots around here who told me that 60c+ was fine for it.

Anyway, lets forget that now...I want to buy a new one, a better one, but also for a low price, because where I live, things are sold for x2 price things are sold in Newegg...

I don't play games that use up lots of memory - I play things like CSS, and RuneScape...

And please add it's info, I'd like to know what's it about, what's good about it, and what's bad about it.

Thanks :D
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translation: hey message board full of idiots, after I'm done insulting all of you help me find a video card...

classic...
 
If your just playing Runescape and CSS then go with something cheaper like a 9600gt or something along those lines.

You can google all the information you'd ever want to know about it.
 
Give me a reason not to...

You and other's have told me that it's some that's SOOOOOOOOOO normal, so I left it be .

And now I've shutdown my PC and it will no longer work...Why?...Because it's fried...Why?...Because I've been told it's so normal.

And thanks McLoLeR, I'll have a look. :D

EDIT:

Sorry, I'll use it with:

An MSI K9N Platinum MoBo
Athlon 64 FX Processor
SB Creative, Fatal1ty Pro Titanium, 7.1 channel speaker
4x 1GB OCZ PC2 6400 Titanium Series 4-4-4-15-1T
 
On another note. 60C should be fine for that card. My old 8600gt idled at 60C and i never had problems with it even under load. And i ran that card for about a year 24/7
 
60c is fine under load. Was the fan on the card running?A hd 4830 is a great card for $110ish. I have a evga 7900gtx I would sell you for $75 shipped, or a 7600gt with a zalman 900 cooler on it for $60 shipped.
 
I don't think it's fine at all, it has been running idled at 60c+ for over a week, and today it gave me it's soul :/

It doesn't have a fan, it only has a heatsink, and my case only has the PSU exhausting air out, and an another single fan exhausting air out.

Today I've noticed some burn marks on the card after it wouldn't work. :/
 
Oh man...I've just tried my brothers 7950GX2 on my PC and it doesn't work... What else than the GFX got fried? :/
 
What do you think the problem is? The PSU starts up everything all fine, doesn't get hot or anything...
 
a 7600gt can handle up to around 80c load no problem
and 60c for a passively cooled model is actually really good.
 
sounds like CPU or Mobo, most likely both. and the most likely culprit of that kind of failure is the PSU.
 
Let him figure it out by himself. We are all too stupid to diagnose his problem.
 
So after he is done calling us all idiots, he THEN starts diagnosing the problem, and finds out he was wrong...

doubly classic.
 
Guess you need to post a new thread stating the correct problem then, whenever you get done diagnosing your problem. I think you figured out that it's not a vid card problem.
 
Oh my... :rolleyes:

I have a passively cooled 7600 GS, and that thing is fine with 81°C (which it never goes up to unless I overclock the hell out of it... but doing that doesn't make much sense), past that, I would see some artifacting. Anyway, calling people idiots is really a great thing to do if you need their help. :rolleyes:
 
mekkanic said:
Guess you need to post a new thread stating the correct problem then, whenever you get done diagnosing your problem. I think you figured out that it's not a vid card problem.
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Well dude...There are burning marks on the GFX, theres a small thing thats blown and black bits around it...That means it's the GFX...What I am thinking is, when the GFX got fried, it screwed up everything around it(the mobo, the cpu ect....)?

EDIT: Don't mind me in the first post tho...I just got mad because I trusted everyone who said 60+ was fine and it really wasn't... Sorry.
 
You can't seem to get over the fact that the card at 60c was not the problem. Something else caused the problem with the card, not the temp.
 
Your GFX card wouldn't blow back and kill the rest of your system. A PSU partial failure blowing both is by far the most likely cause of the failures, although bad VRMs on the mobo are possible as well.
 
There's a fresh stench of bullshit in this thread. I think the OP might be making up a few things.
 
What FX processor?
What PSU?
Try your brother's 7950GX2 and his PSU.
Budget in US$?
 
I would even look at a 9600GSO (8800gs)

Even that may still be a bit too powerful. Check out some of the low end 3xxx and 4xxx from ATI
 
dccmadams said:
60c is fine under load. Was the fan on the card running?A hd 4830 is a great card for $110ish. I have a evga 7900gtx I would sell you for $75 shipped, or a 7600gt with a zalman 900 cooler on it for $60 shipped.
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ah if your poor a ati 4850 is like 120 nowdays at most.. get that over a 4830// gfx260 are also dropping in price too so that should also be option..
 
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