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chris_uk

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Registered: 8th Jul 03
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20th Apr 05 at 10:26

yesterday i turned my computer on and the HDD was making a wierd sound over and over again..

sounded like whe nthe monitor initialises for the first time when you turn your computer on.. strange.

anyway i thought fuck as you do 80gb worth of stuff gone in just like that, movies, games, porn, pics, saved, work, gf's work, etc.. gone

so as i wasnt happy i sripped the machine down and cleaned and rebuilt in the hope that it will revive the HDD even tho u know it never works..

so i put a 6gb hdd in and the video card is fucked!

thried both thte HDD and GC on 3 different machine and nothing. so i assume its safe to assume there dead..

look at the warrenty for the GC 2 months out of date. fuck! (9600XT)

so now im in need of another GC and HDD,

for the HDD i was thinking 120GB SATA

but im a little stuck when it comes to choosing the correct grahpics card.

i can get a Sparkle 256mb 6600 for 101.97

but i dont know if there really any good.

what do you guys have and what you suggest?

i play all the latest games so need something to run them

--Dave--

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20th Apr 05 at 10:32

ATI mate, get the best Radeon card you can with your money

Bart

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20th Apr 05 at 10:37

indeed, ati 9800 pro atleast. i have one, and it copes well with everyone.

the 6600 GT is the equilivant, ment to be quite good. if you buy that id be tempted to go for the XFS not the sparkle (atleast anyway).

--Dave--

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20th Apr 05 at 10:39

9800Pro is what I have, not the newest card out but damn good nonetheless. Hercules one.

PaulW

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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20th Apr 05 at 10:51

if I were you...

check your power supply...

Having both things go at once, NOT good!

Could also indicate a bad power-feed to your house or that particular socket in the house...

PaulW

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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20th Apr 05 at 10:51

quote:
Originally posted by --Dave--
9800Pro is what I have, not the newest card out but damn good nonetheless. Hercules one.

I have this, but flashed to XT Bios

mine is a Saphire one though with 128Mb RAM

--Dave--

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20th Apr 05 at 10:54

I didn't see the point in flashing, not worth the risk in my opinion

chris_uk

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20th Apr 05 at 10:57

well ive been looking at reviews and whatnot,

and it looks like apart from the 6800GT the 6600GT beats pretty much everything else..

so i think im gunna have a go at getting htat one..

PaulW: its a 450wat power supply.

chris_uk

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20th Apr 05 at 10:58

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2277&p=3

--Dave--

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20th Apr 05 at 10:58

what's the make of the power supply?

Bart

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20th Apr 05 at 11:01

size doesnt matter Chris.
A decent 300w PSU is better than a 450w cheap brand, if you've got a decent graphics card and large HDs and serious about gaming then a decent PSU is worth it.
the one ive bought is:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ANT-TRUEBL

chris_uk

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20th Apr 05 at 11:04

itr is a good quality power supply..

cost me about 60

--Dave--

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20th Apr 05 at 11:13

Antec power supplies are great and worth the money like Bart said.

Stay away from cheap brands like Q-Tec

mazdaspeed

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Registered: 8th Jan 05
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20th Apr 05 at 11:20

I think the data on the HDD will still be there, you just need to find a way of accessing the data without a table of contents or whatever it is...

mazdaspeed

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20th Apr 05 at 11:20

Mind you one of my HDDs just died one day, its still sat there and wont work. It was a Fujitsu one too. Got a Maxtor 120gb for 40 quid now tho.

chris_uk

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20th Apr 05 at 11:21

im noth really bothered abot the HDD, i can just redo everything again.. its not much of a problem..

Cheers guys

dave17

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20th Apr 05 at 11:34

i got a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Ultimate Atlantis ( i think ) and it runs most games on full spec

heres some pics:

http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800proult.asp

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