You are refunded the postage when rma gibbo said when i asked about this awhile ago.

awesome! thanks skeeter

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17674017

Rma and postage was discussed here if you wanted to know more.

Well I've put the new card in and it's looking good so far, had a half hour blast on FEAR with no problems and have been running benchmarks whilst I've done some maintenance on the car - seems solid, will continue to test!

good to know machine let us know more!

Ok, been playing Vegas on full whack as well as FEAR : Extraction point.

System specs :
Gigabyte MoBo, AMD SanDiago Core 3700 (2.2ghz), HIS x1950 512mb AGP, Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 4 and 2 gig DDR PC4000

Fear runs at about 60-100 FPS, very nice indeed it's so so much better with all the funky shadows on.

Vegas runs between 40-100 FPS, some areas it does slow down to about 15 but I think thats sloppy level design as it appears when I'm looking in a particular direction and is very occasional.

The ATI benchmark will give me 850-900 FPS, my old Radeon 9600 pro gave me 200, so a massive increase for me there.

I'm downloading 3dMark06 now and will post results for anyone who cares But what is important is that I'm very happy with the performance and that the RMA went through fine without any problems. The whole thing took 5 days , I sent it Monday, they had it Tuesday, It arrived back on Friday - I can't complain about that level of service really.

Hopefully this will inspire a few of you who are hesitant to send your cards back for fear of getting another duff one to do so - OC.co.uk have been very reasonable for me and I can't imagine any different for you guys... and hey.. if any of you live in Lancashire I may drive over and lend you the old 9600 in your downtime

Thanks for the help given to me since I registered, from what I've seen this is a very friendly and helpful forum - I may stick around

Yeah as above the Hiper Type-R 580w will easily handle the x1950pro, those are Crossfire certified for 2x x1950 XTX's, so if they can handle 2x of those in Crossfire then im sure they can handle a single x1950pro no trouble.

i have the same problem with 1950 512mb graphic card

as a review from overclockers.co.uk and COMPETITORS! about this graphic card,i bought this card and i was so happy.

i install it,download the most up to date drivers install it a well.

then withoutany reason the screen gone black,my pc crash,and froze.everytimes i tried to play game the screen gone so messed up.

yesterday i uninstall and reinstall the drivers 5 times thinking this will solve the problem,nothing helped at all

I have psu 600w from ********(win power model).

my card is from : sapphire 1950 pro 512 mb agp interface.

I took the card off and reinstall the old graphic card(ati x800 pro) it is working normal no problem at all.

I was suppose to have saturday off from work,relaxing,but i spent it on my pc trying to solve the problem.

it shouldn't be overheating,because i have 2 case fan,1 extractor fan just under the fan of the graphic card to take all the heat off straight outside the case,2 small fan on each hard card disk(3 hard disk).

i had enough from this card,tommorow i am going to returning it back.

and buy nvidia 256 mb 7600 GT,please what do you think about this card.

i am playing a lot of games such:unreal tournament 2003,2004,delta force xtreme,call of duty 1,unites offensive,call of duty 2,and when call of duty3 for pc come up i will buy it,command and conquer renegade.

what do you think about this card 256 mb 7600 gt agp

i hope to hear from you please

thank you in advance

Try disabling "fast writes" in bios.

I had the same problem with a card and first tried disabling fast writes as SkeeterPSA said but it didn't help.

Next, I tried reducing the AGP speed to 4x (in the bios and drivers) and left fast writes (and everything else) enabled - this solved all my problems.

AGP 8x was mainly a marketing ploy and if you understand how the data is transferred at this speed you'd wonder how the standard was ever stable in the first place! It's data transfer madness and really PCI express couldn't come soon enough! If there is any kind of small issue with AGP 8x due to motherboard design or card it will fail.

I've noticed no speed difference in any of my games and they no longer crash after 5mins or so.

Have a go at 4x and see if it helps.

hi spirits 247

please how to reduce the speed for agp to 4 speed,in the bios and drivers,and how how to leave the fast writes(enable)

thank you