My X1950 Pro video card bit the dust this morning. It was giving me issues when rendering scenes from minecraft, the VPU kept on crashing, and my system would occasionally reboot. My system otherwise runs fine as long as my GPU doesn't start having to "feed the gerbils" so to speak.
Ugh, I need a new motherboard, and a new video card badly. My current motherboard is an ECS NForce4M-A. I can't complain, its ran for no tellings how many thousands of power on time (I wouldnt be surprised if its over 9,000) and even survived a blown PSU and its been runng with a 125w 6400+ socket AM2 Athlon.
The problem with my board is that its OLD. Hell its basically a holdover from the socket 939 days. It doesn't have full SATA support (nforce 4 chipset didn't support it yet), only has the equivalent of SATA 1, no onboard video (I wanted it that way for some reason, less crap to die was my reasoning) crappy audio, no gigabit ethernet, so on and so forth.
I dunno what I am going to do. My CPU won't work in a new AM3 motherboard, AM2+ boards are getting harder to find and ae still pretty expensive (well only the AMD chipset based ones, I wouldn't have on of the newer Nvidia boards I hear they are crap and like to die), DDR3 is getting cheap cheap cheap (4 gigs for less than $20 now) and while my cpu can still hold it's own it is a power hog compared to the current generation of chips out nowadays.
Time to start shopping.
Ugh, I need a new motherboard, and a new video card badly. My current motherboard is an ECS NForce4M-A. I can't complain, its ran for no tellings how many thousands of power on time (I wouldnt be surprised if its over 9,000) and even survived a blown PSU and its been runng with a 125w 6400+ socket AM2 Athlon.
The problem with my board is that its OLD. Hell its basically a holdover from the socket 939 days. It doesn't have full SATA support (nforce 4 chipset didn't support it yet), only has the equivalent of SATA 1, no onboard video (I wanted it that way for some reason, less crap to die was my reasoning) crappy audio, no gigabit ethernet, so on and so forth.
I dunno what I am going to do. My CPU won't work in a new AM3 motherboard, AM2+ boards are getting harder to find and ae still pretty expensive (well only the AMD chipset based ones, I wouldn't have on of the newer Nvidia boards I hear they are crap and like to die), DDR3 is getting cheap cheap cheap (4 gigs for less than $20 now) and while my cpu can still hold it's own it is a power hog compared to the current generation of chips out nowadays.
Time to start shopping.
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