X1900XTX died today, question about new card

Well it looks like my X1900XTX died today. I went home for lunch and fired up my computer. It hadn't even been on for 2 minutes before the display became terribly garbled. My monitor eventually lost it's signal. Restarted, and the computer bluescreened citing an ATI file. Went into safemode and reinstalled Catalyst, which didn't help, although it did allow me to boot to windows normally, the display kept going in and out every couple seconds. The display is even messed up at the BIOS screen, before the ATI software even has a chance to load. I know it's not my monitor or DVI cable, and unfortunately I don't have another PCI-E card I can test.

If I can't get it to work, I'm looking at getting the X1950XTX. This is where my question comes in. The card is on Newegg for $389 which is an awesome deal, but it is sold out. They do have the X1950 crossfire card though for the same price. The specs are identical, so I want to know if I will be losing anything by getting the crossfire edition over the regular card (besides 1 DVI port). Any help would be appreciated.

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Who makes your XTX?
It should still be under warinty.
I would recomend calling the company and seeing what they can do for you before you buy a new one.

Yeah I couldn't find any difference between the two. TigerDirect has the normal X1950XTX, but they are selling it for about $50 dollars more. It's all rather disheartening considering I just paid $600 for my current card less than a year ago. I haven't been overclocking it, and I hadn't even changed any settings on it for several months. I did update my Catalyst software a couple weeks ago. It just happened so fast though, there was no steady decline. It went from working fine one second to unusable the next.

If you are absolutly positive that x1900xtx died get x1950xt its $215 after MIR best value.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102067

The question I have to ask is if your willing to pay $389 for a new card why not just by 8800GTS ? Don't get me wrong I just bought the Ati 1900Xt they had on sale for $200 (with $15 rebate) a few weeks back (hell of a deal btw) but if you spending that kind of cash I would go with the GTS unless you running vista right now.

If you have to buy a new card I cant really see spending close to $300 for a X1950XT when you can get this- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814127225


Just $65.00 more and DX10 compatible means you will get far more bang for the buck.

You know if you could somehow acquire a stock cooler that is the same as your original x1900xtx cooler by buying say a used card or a new card, you could always just get your old card repaired. And you could sell/return the other one after your card is replaced.
(Hey it's just a idea, and yes I'm probably a very bad person for even thinking about it.)

But I would just assume upgrade to a Nvidia 8 series card or just downgrade to a single x1900pro or xt for the next few months, if your going to buy a new card and not get the old one repaired. Remember its getting closer to the release of the ATI DX10 cards and the release of the 8600's.

A further thought: If I do go with the 8800GTS, am I going to suffer a performance hit running it on a board with an ATI chipset rather than an nVidia chipet?

Well I just confirmed that it IS a bad video card. Thanks for all your suggestions. I probably will go with the 8800, so I can be DX10 ready. Thanks again.

Good choice if you need something now, but just be aware there are far better things just over the way. Also I hope you don't plan on running Vista, since there are no certified DX10 drivers yet.

So you can go SLi you should flog off your crossfire board here in the classified section or if you want a quick sale put it on eBay.