Kalshion Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 Remember I said I would post a review after getting the Card?? well I am ok.. I had (hint HAD) the had for 2 days straight and from the start all I had where problems with my system, 1. System overloading due to EXTENSIVE heat 2. The fan on the card sounds like a boeing 747's engines 3. even though the grapihcs are great it seems if you run the card for 5 hours straight your FPS will drop to near ZERO I tested this card out on BCMG and noticed some rather interesting changes 1. When using this card on BCMG you can only play the game for so long due to the card overheating 2. your FPS will drop to Zero on planets 3. You may or may not get textures on your ships (Mostly the Stormcarrier,Firestorm and Astrom will NOT have there textures.. all you see is a wireframe) Now after this (and after taking my computer down to PC club 6 times = 3 in one day 3 in another.. lol they got to know me very good, finialy one of the techs suggested I get return the card.. which I did) I returned and the tech there told me so (cause he warned me about the card and how it handles) so I used the money I got back and bought a Radeon 9800 Other than increase'd profermence it seems BCMG likes the Rad card.. no problems what so ever. No system freeze up the ONLY difference in this card is that you need to connect it to your power supply (odd isn't it) anywho thats my review, if anyone else has an FX feel free to post your own review here I've always been a long time 'fan' of Nvidia and there cards, but the FX has been a big disappointed (And when something disappoints me that means there is something VERY wrong with that disappointed me)
Darkling Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 ATI probably has the best deals right now. I got an ATI 9100 card for less than 80 bucks and it works really well, none of the problems that I had with my Gforce2 and a Heck of a lot faster and CHEAP to boot. Can't ask for a better value
Kalshion Posted May 4, 2003 Author Report Posted May 4, 2003 ok the Radeon 9800 (which hasn't been tested on most games) does have a little issue with BCMG that I've noticed.. weather or not you have the con trials on they won't show up.. plus if you use R.A.N.D.O.M. the game will crash and your profile will,for some reason, be deleted = that means I lost a weeks worth of hard work.. oh well the profile was giving me problems anyway. Other than that everything else works fine OH YEA! It also has an issue with Shadowbane where theres a grey box over the text = kinda odd
Kartoffel Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 From what you described, it sounds like it was an airflow problem in your computer, causing it to crash. Most of the time, an airflow problem is easily enough fixed - just add another case fan.
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