I Just FUBARRED my Card

[bombhands]

Installed a Zalman cooler on my x700 cause my old fan was POS and now the graphics are all crap. I can't even start up Windows in normal mode. /cry

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

about time for a upgrade anyways...

 

[ghmage]

Using thermal compound? Making contact with the GPU and memory?
Sacrificing chickens?

 

[nukemaster]

redo it...maybe your thermal compund is too thin or thick(I found ATI cards needed a thicker layer with there stock heatsinks...but i do not think it was so for the X850 i Zalman VF 700'd)

 

[mtyermom]

Is there any way you can RMA the cooler and replace the vid card instead?

 

[lakedude]

Or put the stock cooler back on?

 

[bombhands]

Yeah there was some thermal grease on the GPU memory. I tried to clean it off but it just spread even more so out of frustration I went out and bought a 8600GT for 130 bucks. I am waiting until September 08 to upgrade to a 3870 so I didn't want to spend all that much. You guys think I got good bang for my buck or could I have gotten something better? The X700 was way outdated and I could only game in CoD4 on 800x600 with low settings.

 

[starcraftfanatic]

Using thermal compound? Making contact with the GPU and memory?
Sacrificing chickens?

You forgot to tell him to try the old Tap the Card with A Wrench. Might as well just try and get a new card, or simply replace the old fan with the exact same thing. Make sure you put thermal paste on the right spots.

 

[lakedude]

bomb-dude is your system AGP? What happens Sept 2008? Expecting a big birthday present or something?

I got a hd2600xt-pcie for $95 including shipping and Valve's Black Box.
Prices went up so I got a 8600GT-pcie including CoH for ~$100 in the mail right now. AGP prices are higher. NewEgg rocks!

The 8600 is a christmas gift BTW (except I'm keeping CoH).

 

[bombhands]

No its PCIe. And I just bought a 8800GT online for $334 shipping and taxes. I am in Canada and even though are dollar is higher our products from the states still cost more (Dunno why ) the cheapest I could find was that at ncix.com. The place I bought the 8600 accepts returns within 14 days so Im going to return it and get another HDD that I wanted. Also this is the PC im going to be giving to my wife in September and I will be building a new one with the latests and greatest.

Like I said i fubarred my other card and was desperate to get a temp replacement.

 

[lakedude]

8800gt, nice!