Graphics Card Flaking
Hey all. Continuing my streak of exceptionally bad luck with hardware, the past couple nights when I've come home from work I found all sorts of graphics fragmentation all over my desktop (Win 7, 64-bit, interestingly enough though, the welcome screen displayed correctly). This was after leaving my GPU folding all day at work. The garbage would then go away after a reboot. Im suspicious that my 8600GTS is giving up the ghost. This did start happening right after I upgraded to the latest nvidia drivers though so I have rolled them back and will be testing it again today however I don't hold out much hope.
My questions to you all are:
1) would you concur that it sounds like my card is dying or do you have alternate ideas.
2) If you concur, can I get some recommendations for an inexpensive (preferably under or around 100 dollars) nvidia card that will tide me over for a couple of months until I can get a 5850 or 5870.
I say nvidia card because I plan on putting it into the new Linux workstation I'm building after I upgrade my windows desktop. I will then be folding on it via Wine. Currently only nvidia cards can fold using wine.
My questions to you all are:
1) would you concur that it sounds like my card is dying or do you have alternate ideas.
2) If you concur, can I get some recommendations for an inexpensive (preferably under or around 100 dollars) nvidia card that will tide me over for a couple of months until I can get a 5850 or 5870.
I say nvidia card because I plan on putting it into the new Linux workstation I'm building after I upgrade my windows desktop. I will then be folding on it via Wine. Currently only nvidia cards can fold using wine.
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The entire 8000 series suffers from inevitable solder microfractures that eventually causes graphical anomalies. Reflow the solder, fix the card.
... do I have to wear the pink wig though?