2007-11-15, 08:11 AM
stustunz Wrote:i had a 9800xt but i fried it trying to overclock it
back then they were still good cards with good drivers
did you install your nvidia card on fresh install?
to tell you the truth if there was another video card brand i would probably give it a go
yup, that 9600xt was a trooper for me. solid through and through -- though i never tried overclocking it
i did a complete uninstall via "add remove programs", then booted into safe mode and uninstalled with a program called "driver cleaner pro", rebooted, installed... at least half a dozen times. the card's not running hot, i have a good psu, ran memtest86, ran a program i found that does a stress test on the video card. all checked out okay. it would crash only during specific HD scenes i'd recorded with my tv-tuner card. problem continued until i installed forceware 91.47. i'm hoping it won't crash... fingers crossed. i've read of people completely reformating their hard drive, doing a clean install of their os and still having the problem. for some people upgrading to vista helps, for others it doesn't seem to make a difference. whether it's agp or pci-e doesn't seem to make a difference either...
anyway, after recently searching for what people think of ati's drivers it looks like they both have their issues
we need some new blood in the video card department.