Search results matching tag 'video'

Please help! I'm lost....

Vredesbyrd — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:29:14 GMT

I have an old Dell Dimension 8100 with a 64mb Nvidia GF Geforce2 MX400/400 AGP graphics card in it. I play WoW a lot and I am really tired of horrible framerates and horrible lag whenever I get near any other players. The RDRAM for the computer is insanely expensive and the cards I have found have been reasonably priced. I took apart my compy and I have two 64mb sticks, and two 128 sticks for a total of 374mb of RAM.....uggghh... That will have to wait. I have enough money to buy a new card. I was thinking about.

Number one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130452

Number two: http://cgi.ebay.com/nVIDIA-GeForce-FX5500-FX-5500-256-MB-AGP-3D-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ290362309330QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Components?hash=item439af13ad2

I plan on sometime in the near future building a whole new rig. But, for right now I need a quick fix. These cards are both 4x/8x compatible. The first one says it needs a minimum of a 300 watt power supply, and the second says it needs a 250 watt power supply. I found a website that said my computer had a 250 watt max, but I took my computer apart and examined it and I found out I have a 330 watt max power supply. Can someone please help me. I need to know if one of these cards will work in my computer. I know a little bit about this. Enough to put it in myself and see if things match up. But, I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing. The specs for the cards are on both links. I just need to know if one or both will work. I'd like the first one, but, if the second one is the only one that will work, that'd be fine. I found a review stating that the second card worked fine in a Dell Dimension 8100 for someone, but the pic it showed in the review was of a different card. It looked totally different. Stating that it was a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 256mb AGP card. But, showing something else. Please neweggers! I need help. I need a new card now! If neither of these will work, can someone maybe suggest a card to me that they know will work? Maybe someone that has experienced the same situation.

No Video Signal, No Beeps.

TripKore — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:30:01 GMT

I'm having the same issue as the other guy on here. Around the first week of July, We had a lightening storm and I found out my PC wasn't properly grounded then. My case started to shock me. So retarded me I left it on and went to work, figure I'll fix it when I get home. I get home, The moniter/desktop was scrambled like I was trying to watch scrambled porn on the TV. So I restarted, same issue. I went to sleep, I woke up, And It said "No Video Signal".

I still had warrenties on all my hardware, they were still fairly new. Sent back my video card, nVidia sent it back right away a new updated card, still no video signal. Figured the board, sent the board back, which MSI took their sweet time (1 month later) I got it back, and here I am now. Only thing I can think of is Power Supply, Processcor, or RAM I suppose. But PC turns on, so is the Power Supply really the issue? I've taken out all 4 of my RAM, and turned the PC on with different sticks 1 at a time, same issue.

Maybe someone on here can help me out, figure this **** out. Thanks

SPECS:

AMD Phenom 9500 Agena 2.2GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core

MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD

XFX PVT84JUDD3 GeForce 9500GT XXX 256MB

APEVIA WARLOCK POWER ATX-WA750W 750W

shuttle sg31g2 video card issues

comaseason — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:00:30 GMT

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101037

this is the barebones I bought, but when I tried to hook up the video card it wouldnt fit.

I need a video card that can run off of a 250 watt power supply and fit into this case.

any suggestions?

sapphire radeon hd 4870 x2 atomic ST-6026

ltheprofessional — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:43:09 GMT

I read the reviews on this card. It is a limited edition card. it is liquid cooled. I read all the reviews benchmark, hardware canucks etc. i would like to purchase this card.

It features a closed loop liquid cooling system. it cools the card and the cpu. both gpus in the card are clocked 800mhz and each has 1gb of ddr5 memory clocked at 1000 mhz !, making a total of 2gb video frame buffer. For a liquid cooled card it is thin. I love the features on it but i cant seem to find it for sale yet. It is a limited edition card. can anyone help me find it.

Death of A Video Card

milkman01 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:45:28 GMT

I built a computer for my Friend using a microatx DFI Motherboard, E8400, and a Sapphire GDDR4 4670 and it seems the 4670 has died. It does not show any video signal on its HDMI or DVI ports and it doesn't seem to be getting any power(its fan doesn't spin when the computer's turned on). I've confirmed this by inserting my own well-worn EVGA 8800 320GB into my friend's PC and it showed video fine.

I've been building computers for a long time and I've never seen a video card die like that...especially one that's only a month or so old...anyone else have a similar experience?

Also, what do I do now? I think the card is past Newegg's 30 day limit...does anyone have experience with Sapphire's RMA process?

Video coding/cpu error?

FHS60 — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:57:30 GMT

Hi,

Recently, I have noticed that the videos skip while being watched on my laptop. This hasn't happened before, and started about after we changed internet providers

Essentially what happens is that any streaming video and dvd skips every other second. When streaming videos are finished loading, sometimes the skipping stops.

I have also noticed that lower quality vids (like youtube) tend to skip less.

All I want to know is: Is this issue a codec error or a cpu error?

Re: system for adobe cs4 production

JavaBill — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:21:23 GMT

The GeForce cards are good for high fill rates in gaming, but workstation graphics is a different animal. The main thing is software support in your main production suite, i.e. Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Autodesk 3ds max.

Autodesk 3ds max requires Directx 9.0c, OpengGL optional:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5659453

Premiere CS4 requires OpenGL 2.0:

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/

Similarly with After Effects CS4:

http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/systemreqs/

On Newegg you can drill down on Computer Hardware -> Video Cards -> Workstation Graphics. ATI, NVIDIA and Matrox all have products in this category, but I have only researched NVIDIA because we were building for Adobe CS4. The one we picked out for our build was the FX580, but you may wish to go higher end than that, especially considering your HD production environment. In fact if your budget allows, you may want to look into the NVIDIA Quadro CX for Adobe CS4:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_cx_us.html

Note the comments in this article about NVIDIA Quadro acceleration of HD video encoding:

http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1867_7.html

If you are doing much more than playback with the sound card, like Sound Booth or Audition, you may want to check out your sound card hardware/software compatibilities with Adobe as well.

Low FPS, slow and stuttering sounds; fan noise.

ThorUK — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:34:31 GMT

I've not done any hardware or driver changes to the system prior to the issues, but I did need to move it, so it may have taken a light knock or two (nothing major).

The symptoms presented in the following order:

Loud fan noise would occasionally start (presumably when CPU got to a certain temperature). The frequency of this increased, and it's on constantly now.

Sound would stutter and slow down in certain situations.

Much lower than normal framerates occurring coincidentally with the stutterring/slowed sound.

First thing I did was to check and update drivers for the audio and video cards, direct x (9c) and windows (XP). When this failed, I tried to ascertain whether this is a hardware fault with my sound card, so I uninstalled and removed it. The onboard sound on my motherboard encountered the same issues, so the sound card isn't at fault.

Since some games and normal videos play fine, the video card is also unlikely to be at fault - dxdiag runs all the tests for sound and video without any problems unless i have something running in the background to induce stuttering/slowed noise. Even in this case, dxdiag can't detect any problems by itself.

Creative diagnostics fails the DirectSound tests, but everything else is fine according to that.

It seems certain software running at a high enough resolution "on screen" causes all the issues to surface. What should be a simple task for the computer can bog it down disproportionately, for exmaple, playing an mp3 in Windows Media Player with a visualization at a small window size or with visualizations turned off is fine; turning the visualization on, and maximizing the window or making it full screen grinds the framerate and music to a painfully slow speed. During this CPU usage is fairly low (not much higher than 10% at peak, usually less), CPU temperature is fairly low (30) and GPU temperature is about 60.

I have also noticed more frequent crashing, and once there was a beep and everything froze.

Nothing is overclocked, and as I stated, I've made no recent changes to hardware configuration or drivers/windows. I am tempted to say that a fan may have been knocked out of alignment and might be messing with the PSU and thus CPU performance, but CPU usage isn't always high when the issues arise. Perhaps the PSU itself is damaged? Since I can't, with my current knowledge and tools, diagnose the problem further, I was hoping someone might be able to lend me a little knowhow. Do the symptoms fit with damaged RAM? CPU? Motherboard?

System: Dell Dimension 9200

Processors: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4 GHz each

Memory: 2x 1024 MB

Graphics Card: nVidia 8600 GTS 256 MB

Audio Cards: SB Audigy Live! 24 bit

Sigmatel High Def (onboard)

Operating System: Windows XP SP 3

CPU temperatures: 20 (idle) 45 (busy)

GPU temperatures: 56 (idle) 80 (busy)

all temperatures are in degrees celcius

GTX 285 buzzing whining sound!! :(

ovreagr — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:17:59 GMT

So I got my new GTX 285 card and it works great except for this completely annoying buzzing sound!! Sort of like a mosquito buzzing right in your ear!

I haven't bench marked the card yet because of this. I have only booted up a few games so far and the noise varies in intensity depending on the game. Oddly enough, EVE Online is the worst for the buzzing followed by DoW II, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect and Civ IV. The last three, fortunately, have little to no buzzing though.

I have been looking around online and found a few different opinions on what it could be, but no one seems to know for sure. Has anyone else had a similar experience with these cards??

ATI vs. NVidia

edwardhardy0x14 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:33:14 GMT

which company is better for monitors 19" - 25.5"?

which video card(s) will be better?

what size is the best for devolping and gaming?