Result of my two month graphics card RMA

[D'Jay]

After two months (yesterday 2011-06-03), i finally get my Radeon HD4850 1gb back.
Today I was met with this when i started up my computer:



Way to go, dimwit! Geez! Did you even touch the damn thing? It worked for ONE bloody day!



*Quietly sneaks away and steals the HD6970 from our SH-mainframe*

[Mr. D]

Should've went with the nvidia doode.

[Shroombuck]

I used to have that 24" Samsung on my desk at one put, I just happened to be smart and switched to a lovely laptop. Now my desk looks glorious!

[Alexraptor]

Thats why i only accept replacement of hardware in RMA's and never repairs.

[D'Jay]

Thats why i only accept replacement of hardware in RMA's and never repairs.

Indeed. I'm sending it back again. And this time, they can keep the bloody thing. Besides, not like i want anything to do with Sapphire products again. Ever single Sapphire card I had died on me. But my 5+ year old Powercolor gpu still runs like a dream.

Anyway, I had to cut into the case with a dremel to make the HD6970 fit. Got my harddrive fitted with adapter now. 2.5" to 3.5" and 3.5" to 5.25". (yeah, stupid, I know. No choice though.)

Father still hasn't noticed the difference btw. despite the fact that the Hd3450 is a huge bottleneck for the 4.5ghz six core phenom

Should've went with the nvidia doode.

never been a fan of Nvidia, but perhaps i should put aside our diffrences...

I used to have that 24" Samsung on my desk at one put, I just happened to be smart and switched to a lovely laptop. Now my desk looks glorious!

Yeah, i was using my laptop too until recently but i needed more processing power, even with the i5-520, ssd and 8gb ram, its still not quick enough for me. then again, i do most of my work on a dual i7E computer with 32gb ram... i might be somewhat spoiled.

[Janeway]

I used to have that 24" Samsung on my desk at one put, I just happened to be smart and switched to a lovely laptop. Now my desk looks glorious!

Yeah, i was using my laptop too until recently but i needed more processing power, even with the i5-520, ssd and 8gb ram, its still not quick enough for me. then again, i do most of my work on a dual i7E computer with 32gb ram... i might be somewhat spoiled.

This concerns me. I've never understood the need for Intel Infinite Core Processors with a trillion gigabytes of memory. When I bought my most recent computer, which happens to be this Mac, one of the common themes I found among regular PCs that I looked at is that they were all starting with about 16GB of memory and Intel Super-Duper Ridiculous Core Processors and that most came with 24-32GB around the tier I was looking at. Of course, to me, that's all unnecessary (and why I went with a Mac - besides there lovely quality, even with Windows installed) but it would be interesting to hear why someone [other than an institution of some sort] actually needs a computer with Intel's very own Ludicrous Speed Processor.

On another note, you should have went with nVidia =).

[D'Jay]

This concerns me. I've never understood the need for Intel Infinite Core Processors with a trillion gigabytes of memory. When I bought my most recent computer, which happens to be this Mac, one of the common themes I found among regular PCs that I looked at is that they were all starting with about 16GB of memory and Intel Super-Duper Ridiculous Core Processors and that most came with 24-32GB around the tier I was looking at. Of course, to me, that's all unnecessary (and why I went with a Mac - besides there lovely quality, even with Windows installed) but it would be interesting to hear why someone [other than an institution of some sort] actually needs a computer with Intel's very own Ludicrous Speed Processor.

On another note, you should have went with nVidia =).

They are not workstations, mate. Yeah, we run games on them once in a while. But usually they're busy with rendering whatever the media department cooked up. The only reason I'm allowed to use this particular machine, is because i built it. And quite frankly, I'd rather use that one than the Pentium 4 powered Dells we have.

Btw, here are the full specs:
2x Intel i7 Extreme Edition 965, 24gb ram (sorry mate, typo), 4x Intel 80gb SSD, approx 100TB overall storage, Quad SLI GTX 580 (i think. not sure, though. might be a GTX560) I didn't handle the upgrade.

[Himble]

I've always used Nvidia.

My one attempt, a good number of years ago now, at using a Radeon graphics card to replace an Nvidia (and that was a Sapphire also) and it just wouldn't work.

Sent the thing back and bought an Nvidia card. This event pretty much cemented me as an Nvidia customer.

[Kelbie]

I've always had Nvidia and never had a problem with them.

[Costello]

Your Fleet Admiral has a whopping 1Gb of RAM.