Bye bye, shiny

[cmdr_zoom]

Neither blowing into the card's innards (shades of NES carts) nor a visual inspection helped resolve the problem, and I found out today what form its glitching takes in CoH, which I had been avoiding - it makes parts of the interface and lines of text therein flash and flicker. Constantly. Yeah, no.

So with a heavy heart, I have pulled the bad tooth GPU and set it aside. Oh well, it was free. Running with the X850 again. Going to try to find a better-but-still-cheap card on craigslist, while holding off on a real upgrade (to a card that came out this or last year rather than 4 or 5 ago) until after the first of the year, probably.

Update: Got a line on a very cheap and local X1300, which literally splits the difference. That'd hold me for a while.

Comments

[mechaman.livejournal.com]

Microcenter had, IIRC, a damn solid year-or-so card for 100. HD4680, maybe.

[mechaman.livejournal.com]

http://www.micro-center.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0299955

Replaced with a very decent card (assuming the slot is compatible), for about the cost of one console game.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Hm. Definitely something to consider, though I'm committed to getting one locally today. If it's a mistake, it's only a $12 one.