tZork wrote:hmm thats really bad news. i need a new card and strongly considered this one. Are you sure you had enough power and cooling? from what i read this card preforms very, very good but is a real hot running power hog. anyways tnx for the heads up.
Yes, i am sure that it was well cooled. I have four fans running to cool the pc case and only high efficiency components inside, like the 65W TDP Wolfdale CPU and a 85% efficiency power supply. Furthermore the card crashed often 2s after entering the game. . . .in dont think that the core temperature can rise so quickly. The next argument against overheating is that the screen was frozen with the last frame. An overheated GPU causes a black- or bluescreen.
The power was for sure sufficient. . . . The 550W powersupply has a load of max 240W in this PC
Stick to NVidia if you dont want to waste time and money. . . . The XFX GT8800 Alphadog is available here for ~100€, and its more than ok for Nexuiz. Even Crysis should run on that with medium settings.
From the technical point of view, The ATI is surely a fancy piece of silicon. . . .1TF calculating power for 130€, but the driver spoils the whole product. There is no alternative driver, and the problem exists since over one year and nobody at ATI cared to fix it. I called the ATI helpdesk and also wrote a failure report. . . .nobody picks up, nobody replies. . . . as i told you: just waste of time.
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