My 9800 GTX's VRAM is dying supposedly dying - blue lines across the screen sometimes, then when I get it to work my PC locks up entirely with an array of blue dashes. I'm saddened by this as it served me my first experience of beautiful gaming - crisp vivid explosions, and art created by other players.
I need a replacement - cheapest as possible - that will give me performance on par to my old card. I'm mostly doing source games, but plan to be doing SC2 and D3 at max settings, maybe Modern Warfare 2. I was narrowing it down to these
- 4830
- 4850
- 9800 GTX (again)
These are all in my $90-$120 range not including shipping. I'm asking for opinions on owners of the first two on how they play some games on their higher settings and their temperatures. If it matters my spex are E8400/4 GB RAM.
if u have XFX or EVGA u can probably request for a replacement for free
(took XFX 2 months to respond to me lolo)
I got mines 2 years ago and didn't put a warranty on it...probably los tthe box too.
I'd give calling tech support a shot. XFX and EVGA are pretty lax about the specifics, as is ASUS. If that fails, stretch your budget a tad and buy this 4870 for $135:
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131140[/url]
The 9 series IMO was a flop, my 9800 gx2 died within half a year, EVGA replaced it with a 280 free of charge since they didn't make the gx2 anymore.
9800GTX cards have problems with thermal death due to the G92 core really not being designed to run at 700+ Mhz and most rebranders of the series used piss poor fans and heatsinks (XFX, EVGA in particular) that further exacerbated the heat problem.
If you can't get a replacement card then I'd suggest an ATI HD4770 or 4850.
Why is everyone's 9800 GTX dying?
Whatever you buy, buy from EVGA. I bought a 8800 GTS 320 MB 2 years ago on a 10 year warranty, after one year it broke and they gave me a 9800 GT 512 MB replacement on a new 10 year warranty
Get a GTS 250 :downs:
go for a 4870 [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102850&cm_re=4870-_-14-102-850-_-Product[/url] a bit over but worth it IMO
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150351&cm_re=4850_1gb-_-14-150-351-_-Product[/url]
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161275&cm_re=4850_1gb-_-14-161-275-_-Product[/url]
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;17465821]9800GTX cards have problems with thermal death due to the G92 core really not being designed to run at 700+ Mhz and most rebranders of the series used piss poor fans and heatsinks (XFX, EVGA in particular) that further exacerbated the heat problem.
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Depends,my XFX 9800GTX has extremely good cooling.Idle's at 42c and maxes at 55c.I disagree with XFX and EVGA making poor fans to cool them.
I still have two 9800GTXes, heavily overclocked, still going strong in SLi? Gonna have to disagree with you GiGaBiTe.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;17465821]9800GTX cards have problems with thermal death due to the G92 core really not being designed to run at 700+ Mhz and most rebranders of the series used piss poor fans and heatsinks (XFX, EVGA in particular) that further exacerbated the heat problem.
If you can't get a replacement card then I'd suggest an ATI HD4770 or 4850.[/QUOTE]
My 9800GTX idles at 60C. Gets load temps of like 80C. 9800GTX+ idles at 55C load of 70C. Fan got stuck on it once too, (cardboard got stuck in fan, don't know how) and it went up to 150C. Still works fine.
9800GTX+ = PNY
9800GTX = XFX
[QUOTE=Luke F;17465731]The 9 series IMO was a flop, my 9800 gx2 died within half a year, EVGA replaced it with a 280 free of charge since they didn't make the gx2 anymore.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I had to replace my 9800 GT within 6 months, though the one I'm working with now seems to have been a remake or something, haven't had any problems with it.
Kybalt, you're lucky, my old one would get to 130C and crash my computer, I think my Motherboard had an auto shutoff.
My 9800GT is running at 720 MHz right now, and maxes out at 60C. Sounds like my G92 is doing good.
My 9800 GTX+ died from something, but it was not heat. 60c is not hot at all considering how many people go higher on load with the same card. (No, don't refer to my troll thread on my alt)
You overclocked your GTX+ to death.
[url]http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792[/url]
Do this - you might fix it, there are a couple of 9800 GTX success stories in there from memory.
Get a 4830 and overclock it, I get more performance than a 9800GTX from my overclocked one, It was already clocked 10mhz more but I majorly upped it... by about 400mhz core and 200 mem, I love my cooling.
I have been running 2 superclocked 9800GTX+'s in SLI for a year now. I have had no problems with it whatsoever.
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