I've just upgraded my graphics card....

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I've been having problems with my monitors losing sync occasionally and green horizontal lines on the screen when doing any graphics work. I was beginning to think it was the monitors, but it is getting worse and both monitors are doing it, so it must be the graphics card. I like quiet PCs, so always run passive cards to remove another source of noise in the room (there's 4 PCs in my office and I value my hearing). I've just upgraded from a 9500GT passive to a GTS 450 passive (in fact I bought it here: http://www.withchips.co.uk/gts450-1gb-ddr5-dx11-silent-h45sink-p-7651.html good price and great service).

Whilst I don't do any gaming, my Desktop aero perf index has gone from 4.3 to 7.2 and the gaming graphics has gone from 6.2 to 7.2. I've also lost all the green flashes and seemingly my monitors sync properly. It's also sitting there with a temp in the mid 40's driving 2 monitors.

I don't normally spend on graphics hardware, but this thing rocks!!
 
good stuff :)

sounds like a pretty decent card, wouldnt fit in my case though :lol:

im always surprised by the poke from my HD4650, although cheap and cheerful and compact it handled black ops nicely.
 
I have always used quiet cards in the past but they never seem to last that long. I don't think any of them lasted 2 years. Now I use a semi silent one and use hotkeys with riva tuner to ramp the fan up/down as necessary.
 
clownfish said:
I have always used quiet cards in the past but they never seem to last that long. I don't think any of them lasted 2 years. Now I use a semi silent one and use hotkeys with riva tuner to ramp the fan up/down as necessary.
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I did wonder if it was that and riva tuner said it was running at 58 deg C before I took it out. I now have a graphics card temperature monitor on my gadget bar and it is running in the low 40's most of the time. Given I hardly ever push the graphics, hopefully, this will last (the heatsink is much bigger than the last cards). Rivatuner doesn't support the newer Fermi architecture cards (which the 4xx are) though...
 
neil_g said:
I've used sapphire passive HD4550s in my hptcs for yonks and still going strong. Great little budget HD movie cards :-)
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Actually, that could be where you had problems with xbmc. I think the Nvidia cards are better supported than the Radeons (or they used to be).
 
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