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Nvidia 8800gts 640mb finally died, what now

newgen2005

newgen2005

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3 months after doing the heat gun trick on the card my pc developed a black screen (tonight). I tried to reboot the pc but it just gives a long beep followed by 2 beeps so it looks like it is the end of the road for my card! Last time the pc would semi boot even though the the screen was purple but now nothing! As my PC (Mesh with an Intel E6700 Core2 Duo 2.67GHz 6 gb ram, Nvidia 8800gts 640mb) is coming up to 4 years old I dont want to spend a fortune on a new card! What do you guys thing I should replace the card with? I mainly use the pc for watching blu ray's/ messing with HD footage etc and playing America's Army game :)! I don't want to downgrade the graphics if not to expensive.
 
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Is that two 8800GTS cards you are running or just one?

You only mention one card in the OP, but the machine is called "Mesh Dual GPU" so i'm a bit confused.
 
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newgen2005 said:
Another silly question if I may :) how come the card is listed as a MSI ATI Radeon, I thought the brands MSI and ATI were different? sorry if I am being dumb!
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Not a silly question at all.

ATI (AMD) make the central graphics processor unit (GPU) and create a standard design for the graphics cards - but they don't actually manufacture the graphics cards themselves.

MSI are one of AMD's partners, they take the GPU chip and physically build the graphics card. Often manufacturers change the cooling option from the standard one (like this MSI).

newgen2005 said:
Not sure about PCIE! if I take a snap shot of my old card
could you tell from that?
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Aye, i'd be able to tell from a photo - but tbh I'm pretty certain it is PCIE. There has not been any PCI or AGP versions of the 8800GTS 640MB cards - so that card must use PCIE.

If its a MESH core 2 duo system - then they would almost certainly use the current technology of the time (4 years ago) and that was PCIE, even back then.
 
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Yes, that is definitely a PCIE (PCI express) graphics card connection - so the 5850 will be fine.

The motherboard will likely be PCIE version 1 and the card is version 2 - but don't worry about this. A version 2 card will work fine in a version 1 board and the performance reduction due to the lower bandwidth will be tiny (less than 4%).
 
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Yes, that is definitely a PCIE (PCI express) graphics card connection - so the 5850 will be fine.

The motherboard will likely be PCIE version 1 and the card is version 2 - but don't worry about this. A version 2 card will work fine in a version 1 board and the performance reduction due to the lower bandwidth will be tiny (less than 4%).
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Just checked an online review of my machine:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=894&pn=4

and it has an Asus P5N32-E SLI mobo
 
Ah, yes - I know the board well. PCIE all the way - so the 5850 will have no issues.

You may feel tempted to go down the Nvidia route - for the option of SLI. However, I wouldn't suggest this tbh. This is because the 5850 is a really excellent deal and adding a second card would not make sense - as the CPU would be the bottleneck in many games.
 
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