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Serious visual corruption has just started on my computer. The screen becomes corrupted as you see here shortly after log-in. Then becomes more and more corrupt and after about ten minutes the computer does a hard crash, the screen looks like a TV static field.

I have eliminated the following as the issue.
Monitor (Tested it with a backup know good monitor)
Drivers (7800 GTX using latest WHQL drivers)
Memory(know good)
Power source(My house wiring is fine)


So I'm left with power supply, and what else.

I'd do the log hijack but I can't get it stable long enough I am attemping but I don't hold out hopes.
The game also crashs in safe mode.

Help people, this is not going, it's my primary gaming PC.

It's possible that your video card has gone bad. That does happen on occasion, especially now that video cards are as sophisticated as motherboards used to be.

Darth Wong wrote:It's possible that your video card has gone bad. That does happen on occasion, especially now that video cards are as sophisticated as motherboards used to be.

I wish to be in denial that my video card has gone bad, unless my bribe money from Mr Bush arrives tomorrow I can't afford to replace it.

Please tell me I need to spray some raid in there to remove the video interference gnomes.

Fuck, if it is the Video card where's my sweet stop replacement card. At the moment I have a Gefore 7800GTX EVGA pre overlocked. Need to dig my warrenty up on that and see how long I'm covered.

Assume equvilant performance to a 7800 GTX with minimum amount of money spent.

Or in other words, what is the cheapest NEW card I can buy that is equivlant to the 7800 GTX?

It looks like your video card is owned. If the fan's working and it's still like that, there's probably not much you can do.

However, EVGA has a lifetime warranty. They should be able to have a new card to you in about a week. The 7800GTX is actually rather crappy by current standards, and there is a good chance they will send you a newer card with equivalent or better performance since the 7800 series hasn't been made for a while.

When my old video card failed on my K6-450, it looked something like that but even worse

Yeah, I've seen that quite a few times, dieing video card. If you turn off Hardware Acceleration in display settings it will probably allow you to use GDI (the windows GUI) without issues, although slower. But that card won't be doing graphical work again. Scrap it. Get a replacement.

I don't know how much you paid for your video card, but you can get a Radeon HD3870 for around 180 bucks before tax on Newegg, which, as cards go, is a solid midrange card of the current generation, uses little power, all said and done, and gives perfectly solid performance. But, again, I'm not aware of your price range.

8800GT or HD3870 would be the cards to go for in terms of midrange.

Ok I'm trying the computer again with Hardware acceleration disable, the problem has already cropped up again.

Oh and the Video card is chily, only 30*C on the proccessor, I can easily handle the video card with no worries about burning myself

I'm going to leave it running and see how long we last, four minutes since bootup so far.

Well, without hardware accerlation turned on the computer has preformed fine for about three hours now.

Time to turn it back on.

Fuck me with a wooden spoon, yeah it's the @#$@$ video card. @#$@$

Time to dig up EVGA's call number and see about what I need to do.

Fuck no luck there, I need 200$, As EVGA explained the life-time warranty only applies if you register the card within 90 days. It's been a few more than 90 days. As it was I had a one year warranty which ran out about a year and a half ago.

Oh well, come on Bush bribe money! When's that supposed to get there again?

If you're only interested in equal performance to the 7800GTX, you don't need to spend anywhere close to $200. An 8800GS for ~$100, for example, will crush a 7800.

Seggybop wrote:If you're only interested in equal performance to the 7800GTX, you don't need to spend anywhere close to $200. An 8800GS for ~$100, for example, will crush a 7800.

I have a GeForce 7800 GTX KO 256MB in my system at present, not that it's working but back in the day I shelled out 469$ for it brand spanking new when I built my system, have I gotten that many generations behind even the 8800GS will beat it?

Definitely. Here is a recent 8800GS review. It doesn't directly compare to the 7800GTX, but it does list the improved 7900GTX, which is already significantly better than the 7800.

Seggybop wrote:Definitely. Here is a recent 8800GS review. It doesn't directly compare to the 7800GTX, but it does list the improved 7900GTX, which is already significantly better than the 7800.

Ah so for 140$ plus shipping I can buy a card that will replace my current card and provide a little bit better performance.

I remember when I had the specs of all cards memorized, I could rattle of a system spec and a totally accurate build price, today? I can barely keep up due to Nvidia's madding naming scheme.

A question, how would something like this compare to a 9600 since ten bucks more buys me a 9600 GT at the moment. I can find 9600 reviews but not once that compares it to the 8800GS directly, only to the GT(Which it loses to)

The 8800GS and 9600GT perform very similarly. The 8800GS has more shaders and less memory than the 9600GT, and tends to come with a somewhat lower stock clock speed. Looking at Newegg here, a 9600GT is about $20 more (after rebate) than 8800GS (also after rebate). I think the additional memory of 9600GT (512 vs 384) is more useful in current games than the shaders in 8800GS (64 vs 96) but it depends on the specific games you play.

The 9 series cards are also DX10.1 compliant for those who like to have mulisampled anti-aliasing in games that use defferred rendering (unreal engine 3 for example uses defferred shading, meaning you can only have supersampled AA at a much larger performance cost in DX9/10). Though considering how huge the vista sucks campaign is now you are probably using XP and stuck with 9 anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Resinence wrote:The 9 series cards are also DX10.1 compliant for those who like to have mulisampled anti-aliasing in games that use defferred rendering (unreal engine 3 for example uses defferred shading, meaning you can only have supersampled AA at a much larger performance cost in DX9/10). Though considering how huge the vista sucks campaign is now you are probably using XP and stuck with 9 anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Only ATI 3XXX series is DX10.1 compliant. Nvidia has not yet announced any plans for a 10.1-supporting card. 9600GT's G94 core is the same as G92 in 8800 series except for the reduced shaders, anyway. The current ATI cards are pretty good, but nvidia still has them beat at each price level.

Really? I haven't really kept up to date recently. Nvidia were promising 10.1 compliance, didn't deliver huh. Oh well.