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Horizontal flickers on my 24 inch Gateway monitor

outfctrloutfctrl Member UncommonPosts: 3,619
in Hardware

So I was playing skyrim the other day.  All of a sudden, I started getting these horizontal flickers across my screen.

Great, there goes my GTX 285 video card. Tried a few other games and the same thing happened.  Rebooted, it happened again.  Shut down the monitor, turned it back on, it happened again. Called a few tech people that I know and they said it sounds like your video card is hosed.

So I went to Tiger Direct and bought this:

After I installed it, the lines came back.  What? I just friggin spent around $500.00 USD for this *&%#$ thing and I am still getting this crap?  I searched some more and found the culprit.  It was my damn power supply back-up my monitor was plugged into.

I unplugged my monitor, plugged it back in, put the anti-theft monitor security code in and have not had that issue since. It has been two days now and no flickering.  Oh well, now I have a kick ass video card, I hope.

What do you guys think of this video card?  Did I screw up and should have got a better one or is there a cheaper one that is faster.

Thanks all for listening to me rant a little

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    $500 is way too much to spend for a GTX 670.  It's only a little better than a GTX 760 that you could have for $250, and not nearly as good as a GTX 770 that you could have for $400.
  • outfctrloutfctrl Member UncommonPosts: 3,619
    Originally posted by Quizzical
    $500 is way too much to spend for a GTX 670.  It's only a little better than a GTX 760 that you could have for $250, and not nearly as good as a GTX 770 that you could have for $400.

    Well, I did look at the others, but they only had 2 GB GDDR5 Memory.  This one that I bought has 4 GB GDDR5 Memory.  That is where the price went up.  In the future I will be running multiple monitors.

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    Originally posted by outfctrl
    Originally posted by Quizzical
    $500 is way too much to spend for a GTX 670.  It's only a little better than a GTX 760 that you could have for $250, and not nearly as good as a GTX 770 that you could have for $400.

    Well, I did look at the others, but they only had 2 GB GDDR5 Memory.  This one that I bought has 4 GB GDDR5 Memory.  That is where the price went up.  In the future I will be running multiple monitors.

    Once you're into multi-GB video cards, extra monitors basically amount to a rounding error as far as video memory usage goes.  The only difference between a 2 GB card and a 4 GB card is that the latter will let you use ultra high resolution textures in a tiny handful of games that have them.

    But even if you wanted the extra video memory, AMD offers a 3 GB Radeon HD 7970 for much cheaper than that.

     

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