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8800GT RIP

Peters

Peters

Peters

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Hello All

I've been reading this forum for quite a while but decided to join up because I think I have a problem with graphics card. It's a 8800GT and it's been working OK since Nov 2008 but recently it decided to stop working, there's no output and I'm getting beeps from the motherboard.

The m/b is an Asus P5K and I've also got a spare 7300GT card to see if it really is the graphics card.

What would be a decent replacement? A 5770? I'm looking to spend no more than £100 and was quite happy with the 8800GT. I use that PC for gaming.

cheers

Pete
 
A 5770 would cost around £120 on average, so they would exceed your budget a little. If you are on tight budget, you could go for a 2nd hand 4870 1GB which should cost around £65-£70.
 
In the oven?

OK, I've searched and found a few references, has anyone got the quick recipe for baked 8800gt? :D

cheers

Pete


edit : sorry, you lot post too quick, thanks for the link!
 
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BTW I'm running XP, is it worth upgrading to win7?
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If you got at least 4GB of memory and would like to run stuffs in 64-bit, as well as wanting to play games in dx 11 mode (you would have to get a 5770 or other 5000 series cards for that), then sure.

I have installed my Win 7 64-bit as well as keeping my existing XP by dual-boot, and I honestly feel that my Quad-cores run much better in Win 7 with workload spread over the 4 cores more evenly than in XP which seem to place most burden on the 2 main cores.
 
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I'll have an 8800 GT up for sale soon...;) lol just treated myself to a 5870 vapor-x TBH shame yours has died. they are a really good card.

Remember when I got mine, they were the kings at the time, really good cards. I have the BFG OC version, and its never really missed a beat..!!

Hope the oven trick works for you, other then that, maybe drop me aline and make an offer for my older 8800GT..!! lol
 
I reckon NV failure rate and overall build quality has gone down the crapper compared to ATI over the last few generations, NV are only giving its partners a one year warranty with fermi..:eek:
 
RavenXXX2 said:
I reckon NV failure rate and overall build quality has gone down the crapper compared to ATI over the last few generations
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Are you serious? The only reason it seem that way is because there are way more people using the GeForce 8000 series and many were using them since 2006/2007, while there are barely anyone still got a HD2000 series card and only minority of people still got HD3000 series card nowadays; the performance of both HD2000 and HD3000 series were disappointing and there's the truth. HD 4000 series on the other hand performed extremely well and finally put ATI back on the spot to exchange blows with nvidia.

If you want to troll nvidia, and least try using some valid points.
 
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NV cards are dropping like flies, 260's, 280's you name it, quality control has gone down the pan, BFG left Europe because of the vast amount of warranties they were having to for-fill was killing them financially. I state the factual truth, now trot along.
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Yea yea yea...your memory seem so bad that you don't seem to recall the point you were making.

RavenXXX2 said:
I reckon NV failure rate and overall build quality has gone down the crapper compared to ATI over the last few generations
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What you are essentially doing is comparing ONE generation of decent ATI cards to FEW generations of nvidia cards on an unbalanced scale in terms of quantity. I don't doubt the GT200 series quality/reliability may be gone down, but to say ATI got better quality card for the last few generations (HD2000 and HD3000 series included), you must be delusional.

I'm neutral enough to admit the fact that nvidia 8000 series cards were great for the first two dx 10 generations, and ATI HD4000 series was great for last generation. Unlike some biased mindless ATI zealot thinks that everything ATI touches turn into gold and everything nvidia make turn into poo.
 
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Thanks for the replies chaps. I think I'll go for a 5770 and see how it works out.

Later I might upgrade from 2 > 4gb and get win7. Got to start saving.

cheers

Pete
 
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