Graphics card no. 2

[Tallithia]

<p>This is the second graphics card I have burned through playing eq2.  Hey SOE, wanna splurg for my next one?</p><p>Grrr back to onboard graphics until I can afford a new HD which at this point would probably be cheaper then getting a card that would fit this emachine. :/  I haven't tried to log in to see if I can run the game, pretty sure it's gonna be iffy.  Depressing as I might miss Halloween if not. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Any links to any sales for one comaptable with emachine T3302 would be much appreciated <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Peogia]

<p><cite>Tallithia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>This is the second graphics card I have burned through playing eq2.  Hey SOE, wanna splurg for my next one?</p><p>Grrr back to onboard graphics until I can afford a new HD which at this point would probably be cheaper then getting a card that would fit this emachine. :/  I haven't tried to log in to see if I can run the game, pretty sure it's gonna be iffy.  Depressing as I might miss Halloween if not. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Any links to any sales for one comaptable with emachine T3302 would be much appreciated <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Some cards have a life time warrantees</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/" target="_blank">http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.evga.com/howtorma/" target="_blank">http://www.evga.com/howtorma/</a></p><p>make sure you are 100% certain what your motherboard needs before purchasing a video card AGP or PCI-E</p><p>example</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=video+card+agp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...=video+card+agp</a></p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161337" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814161337</a></p><p><a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=28&sel=Detail%3B55_158_2064_2064" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...5_158_2064_2064</a></p><p><a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6076197&CatId=2234" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...&CatId=2234</a></p>

[Lempo]

<p>Would you care to explain what your rationale is that EQ2 has 'killed' 2 of your graphics cards?</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007850&IsNodeId=1&name=AGP%204X%2f8X">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...e=AGP%204X%2f8X</a></p><p>According to emachines site you need AGP card, several on that list from $20 up.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Tallithia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>This is the second graphics card I have burned through playing eq2.  Hey SOE, wanna splurg for my next one?</p><p>Grrr back to onboard graphics until I can afford a new HD which at this point would probably be cheaper then getting a card that would fit this emachine. :/  I haven't tried to log in to see if I can run the game, pretty sure it's gonna be iffy.  Depressing as I might miss Halloween if not. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Any links to any sales for one comaptable with emachine T3302 would be much appreciated <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>We can't make your video card perform tricks it isn't supposed to be able to.  We can't cause your video card to utilize more than 100% of it's potential load.  If it has failed, it has failed under standard conditions or by the contributing factors such as pre-existing system or hardware issues, bad drivers or file corruption, or overheating (amongst other not as common causes).</p><p>Maintenance is tantamount to a fulfilling lifespan of your hardware.  Keep it clean with compressed air, learn to get in and out of the fan and cooling solution on the card to get a nice deep clean in, make sure there is airflow in the case and so on.</p>

[Tallithia]

<p>I wasn't being serious about eq2 buringing up my graphics cards..jeesh lighten up a bit people..lol</p><p>But this is the second GC I have been through in a short time.  I got them used (from friends) so no warrenty involved. They were Nvidia 7600 cards.  </p><p>Thanks for the links, I will check em out (and why I posted here <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />)</p>

[Tallithia]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Tallithia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>This is the second graphics card I have burned through playing eq2.  Hey SOE, wanna splurg for my next one?</p><p>Grrr back to onboard graphics until I can afford a new HD which at this point would probably be cheaper then getting a card that would fit this emachine. :/  I haven't tried to log in to see if I can run the game, pretty sure it's gonna be iffy.  Depressing as I might miss Halloween if not. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Any links to any sales for one comaptable with emachine T3302 would be much appreciated <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>We can't make your video card perform tricks it isn't supposed to be able to.  We can't cause your video card to utilize more than 100% of it's potential load.  If it has failed, it has failed under standard conditions or by the contributing factors such as pre-existing system or hardware issues, bad drivers or file corruption, or overheating (amongst other not as common causes).</p><p>Maintenance is tantamount to a fulfilling lifespan of your hardware.  Keep it clean with compressed air, learn to get in and out of the fan and cooling solution on the card to get a nice deep clean in, make sure there is airflow in the case and so on.</p></blockquote><p>Actually I am pretty annal about cleaning my comp.  I worry about over heating during the summer and have been known to open my hard drive and run it with the side off (open side faces direction of airconditioner).</p><p>This second card was a filler until I could get another but it was working well and I basically forgot to save to get the new one <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>What surprised me was there was no annomally happening graphically.  Just had a few msg's about memory after gu61 that it was low but didn't equate that to graphics.  A few freezes but again no graphical annomallies so didn't think graphics.</p><p>Thanks for responding Josh.  Sorry if you thought I was being serious <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Now if my CPU fries....  lol j/k</p>

[Lempo]

<p><cite>Tallithia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I wasn't being serious about eq2 buringing up my graphics cards..jeesh lighten up a bit people..lol</p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;"> I wasn't being nasty, I've been into harware since the TRS-80 days, I just like hearing the stories sometimes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></span></p><p>But this is the second GC I have been through in a short time.  I got them used (from friends) so no warrenty involved. They were Nvidia 7600 cards.  </p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">FWIW the last card I had replaced by NVidia involved a call and a confirmation that the computer was failing to post with the card in slot with TS the serial # on the card whowed it was within the warranty period, they sent me a card and told me to toss the old one. No hassle for a receipt that I wouldn't have had anyway at all, same thing with Logitech and my last mouse, so I have a spare MX-1000 mouse ($99) sitting around that the left click occasionally sticks or doesn't work at all as a hot spare for emergencies that they replaced with a Performance MX shipped overnight at no cost to me. Top notch companies. I'd try the phone first free is always > $$$</span></p><p>Thanks for the links, I will check em out (and why I posted here <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />)</p></blockquote>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Oh it wasn't a point of contention, it's here so I figured I'd just throw out information <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Tallithia]

<p><cite>Lempo@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Tallithia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I wasn't being serious about eq2 buringing up my graphics cards..jeesh lighten up a bit people..lol</p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;"> I wasn't being nasty, I've been into harware since the TRS-80 days, I just like hearing the stories sometimes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></span></p><p>But this is the second GC I have been through in a short time.  I got them used (from friends) so no warrenty involved. They were Nvidia 7600 cards.  </p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">FWIW the last card I had replaced by NVidia involved a call and a confirmation that the computer was failing to post with the card in slot with TS the serial # on the card whowed it was within the warranty period, they sent me a card and told me to toss the old one. No hassle for a receipt that I wouldn't have had anyway at all, same thing with Logitech and my last mouse, so I have a spare MX-1000 mouse ($99) sitting around that the left click occasionally sticks or doesn't work at all as a hot spare for emergencies that they replaced with a Performance MX shipped overnight at no cost to me. Top notch companies. I'd try the phone first free is always > $$$</span></p><p>Thanks for the links, I will check em out (and why I posted here <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />)</p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Interesting, I will contact them <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Really good to know as I do like Nvidia.  Plus my monitor is a 24 pin that I am not seeing on the AVG cards and being that with onboard graphics I have had to revert to old monitor, which is nice but nothing like my wide flat screen monitor for gameing.  Nothing like an old monitor to make one feel their age when I have to dam near kiss it to see lol.</p><p>I am frantic to reslove this before haloween in eq2...my fav holiday!  And with the onboard graphics I cant even get into the game <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Just gives error msg.  Can you see my hands twitching to play?? lol</p>

[Tallithia]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Oh it wasn't a point of contention, it's here so I figured I'd just throw out information <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I always appreciate the responses from the EQ2 team.  /flirt You guys rock. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Lempo]

<p>the 24 pin plug is called a DVI port if you look at the top of the left column on new egg there are two links, one says advanced the other power. you can filter options there.</p><p>This link should give you a list of NVidia chip cards that have a DVI port. In case you do not know they license their chipset to other companies so just because it doesn't say NVidia don't let that throw you. EVGA is another top notch manufacturer, slightly more expensive but worth every penny IMO.</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709+600007850+600007834+600030348&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&AdvancedSearch=1&srchInDesc">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ch=1&srchInDesc</a>=</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Thanks for the info Lempo!</p>

[Tallithia]

<p><cite>Lempo@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>the 24 pin plug is called a DVI port if you look at the top of the left column on new egg there are two links, one says advanced the other power. you can filter options there.</p><p>This link should give you a list of NVidia chip cards that have a DVI port. In case you do not know they license their chipset to other companies so just because it doesn't say NVidia don't let that throw you. EVGA is another top notch manufacturer, slightly more expensive but worth every penny IMO.</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709+600007850+600007834+600030348&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&AdvancedSearch=1&srchInDesc">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ch=1&srchInDesc</a>=</p></blockquote><p>Lempo, you are awesome!  I will check it out..thanks for the info. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>