How does it fit on the Cpu?.. the main thing goes into one of the 2.2" slots and the separate thing onto the CPU?.. it costs a lot though, doesnt it?:)
Fuzzy, can I ask you for a favour, more an advice? I still experience the same GPU problems that i had from the start.. Those that when i play almost any game, I get graphical bugs all over the place... pixels stretching across is the main thing, but i also get texture bugs and stuff like that... In HL2DM its mostly the polygons stretching across the screen from objects, in Bioshock that i launched yesterday it was squares on the screen where the polygon in HL2DM would stretch:).. Doom3 engine on Doom3 and Quake4 is the same problem, but far worse.. older engines seem to tolerate it better - I hardly got any bugs in FarCry. And brand new ones (not bioshock, i figured:)) like Splinter Cell DA - no bugs at all... My concern is whether its progressing or not, so thats one question for you -
can a hardware bug progress?.. Ill try to reinstall SplinterCell DA and see again.. The reason Im sure it is a hardware bug is that when I installed the GPU, I was running Win2k and the bug appearance was 100% in HL2DM, i.e. it was ALL OVER THE PLACE and it was impossible to get rid of them... then i installed XP and the bugs reduced, from my knowledge, XP has a better compatibility with games, so it could have partly fixed the problem. I tried different drivers, re-formatted the PC and everyhting - no success... When i play HL2DM and the bugs start to appear at some point, when they get too bad - I minimize the window and go back - this re-sets the renderer, i suppose, and clears the bugs till they start appearing again, sometimes they are not so bad and its playable.. So, back to the point, my sugestion is that the reason is that I have a recent generation GPU (7900GS) installed on an ancient motherboard with 915i chipset, so, basically, I blame the motherboard being so old and incompatible with the graphics card. Another cause of the bugs maybe the GPU itself, but thats a rather unpleasant thought, coz i paid 120 quid for it last year:).. Another reason I would not suggest its the GPU is that if it was a hardware bug, it would be very unlikely that it ONLY expresses itself in that way, nothing else is affected apart from vertex rendering (i think it is)... So, I wasnt gonna tell you the whole story, but Im so desperate for a way out, that I hoped you might help me at east with my reasoning.. I monitored the heat levels of the GPU, with 130C being the factory threshold, it hardly goes above, erm, 50, as far as I remember, when playing HL2DM, not more than that for sure, so it cant be overheating... Soooooo:).. The real question for you is, could you help me find a motherboard model with a newer chipset and an acceptable price? something below 50-60 pounds, coz I looked on the net and its a bit hard to make my way through dozens of them, coz, first, i need to find
an acceptable model of the motherboard, and, then, i need to find
a cheaper supplier of this acceptable model of the motherboard
.. and I cant get past the first step yet.. I would really appreciate your help.. This post by reminded me that you were an IT technician, so I asked:)..
I know, Cynyx, you work in IT as well,but I think you are to do with software and you wouldnt be able to help with british prices and cheap suppliers, but if youve got any advices for me - I would highly appreciate that too..
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