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Old 02-20-2007, 08:47 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Please do not tell me you spent $200~ on an X1650...

Anyway, glad you got it working at least.
I forgot to mention, the MoBo only has an AGP slot, not PCIe for Video.... Remember, It's an OLD TEST system. I couldn't find many ATI AGP Solutions.
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Old 02-20-2007, 03:14 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I forgot to mention, the MoBo only has an AGP slot, not PCIe for Video.... Remember, It's an OLD TEST system. I couldn't find many ATI AGP Solutions.
You'd still find X1950 Pros for $200 in AGP. Newegg has 12 X1950 Pro AGP cards for sale as of now, with 55 total for ATi's current X1650 Pro are around $129 in AGP. Not sure where you shop at.
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crap, now they're giving it away....

Sapphire Radeon X1950 PRO 512MB AGP
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=326860
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Old 02-23-2007, 04:15 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Well, SCREW the dark side... I yanked the ATI card, threw in an old nVidia 6600GT 128MB AGP card, loaded the new nVidia drivers, and wow, not a crash! I could crank Quake 4 back to HIGH Quality, and 1280x1024, and it was as smooth as glass! Took the card back to Best Buy and got my money back.
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wimp things get a little tough and you bail
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Sorry you had so much trouble. Odd considering ATi drivers are right now considered to be of higher quality than Nvidia's for Vista. Probably an odd compatibility issue somewhere. Happens...
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Sorry you had so much trouble. Odd considering ATi drivers are right now considered to be of higher quality than Nvidia's for Vista. Probably an odd compatibility issue somewhere. Happens...

seems people find that alot with ati cards though. pretty sad.
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I know Chem, but it was just too weird... Quake 4 would run so slow, and at lower resolutions... and if I exited the game and went back in again, it was dead slow, and would hang. I just got back from another local store where I picked up another nVidia 7600GS AGP Card, and testing it now. The first one was an eVga 7600GS 256MB AGP card. This one is a PNY 7600GS 512MB AGP Card. Got it for $100 too, like the last one, and so far, it is outstanding!

I did notice that the ATI card shared resources with my USB Devices, and when it would crash, or slow down, my USB mouse would stop working too.
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seems people find that alot with ati cards though. pretty sad.
I'm sorry, but that's simply an ignorant statement. If ATi cards ran into the issue so much more than Nvidia's then you'd certainly hear major stories about it. Instead you never do. You'd also see OEM manufacturers completely shunning ATi cards, that doesn't happen. Your statement is beyond ridiculous even, in fact I know you have no real evidence to even back it up, sorry but the anecdotal "evidence" you read on forums is in no way real proof.

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I know Chem, but it was just too weird... Quake 4 would run so slow, and at lower resolutions... and if I exited the game and went back in again, it was dead slow, and would hang. I just got back from another local store where I picked up another nVidia 7600GS AGP Card, and testing it now. The first one was an eVga 7600GS 256MB AGP card. This one is a PNY 7600GS 512MB AGP Card. Got it for $100 too, like the last one, and so far, it is outstanding!

I did notice that the ATI card shared resources with my USB Devices, and when it would crash, or slow down, my USB mouse would stop working too.
It sounds like an odd issue Erad, software related since you mention the USB devices having issues with a crash. Probably a chipset driver and ATi's driver not behaving so well together. Not sure why your first 7600GS would run into an issue and your new one doesn't, they use the same core for example and the same drivers also.
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Chem, I totally Agree! Stumped-but-HAPPY now!

Funny thing is, I can overclock the CPU and Video card when an nVidia card is installed, but I can't even bump it beyond Stock Speeds with the ATI card installed. Weird, eh? (See I can talk Canadian, eh!)
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