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How a new HDD kills a GPU
Long time no post here.
Anyway decided to buy a new 1.5TB HDD yesterday and plugged it into my PC.  Oddly though, it failed to boot afterwards.  Taking out the HDD didn't help, in fact, I spent many hours trying to figure out what was wrong.  I did manage to eventually narrow it down to the graphics card (seriously didn't expect that) - very odd indeed, but it's definitely the GPU after swapping cards with my old 7800GT.

Dunno if it'll get any warranty, as it was bought in Dec08, but I'm going to have to get a new card regardless.  Unfortunately, most of the desirable cards are out of stock around here (double you tee eff?).  After much thought, I decided to go for a PowerColor Radeon 5670 for AU$105.  Not exactly a great card, but should be suffice for my needs, and it looks better than the other options:

Radeon 4670 ~ $80: my current card - really want to get something a little different :P
Radeon 4770 ~ $120: more powerful than 5670, but costs more too, plus no DX11 (even though I don't care about it that much)
Geforce 9600GT ~ $90: cheaper, but less powerful, less energy efficient and no DX11
GT240 ~ $103: still not as powerful as the 5670

Am also hoping the PowerColor isn't as loud as my current MSI Radeon 4670 (there's no fan control, so the fan is always blasting at 100%).

Card will apparently arrive in about two days.
So just a heads up to anyone who cares - I can't really do much until then, so yeah...
19/01/2010 07:46 PM
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strange,,,,, coincidence?
19/01/2010 07:48 PM
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I DON'T CARE!

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whoa... any idea why it failed? :/
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that's weird alright that your new HDD drive managed to spike your graphics card like that.

get that one, even if it is more expensive. even with now DX11 its still more powerful as you said.
19/01/2010 07:50 PM
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HDD beaks GPU... lolwut?

Sure you didn't static it when installing the HDD or something instead?
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19/01/2010 07:52 PM
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i don't get how it can break a gpu. hmmmmmm.....

im calling coincidence on this one.

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how does that even happen?

that's like getting a new oven, causing your fridge to break.

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./xitherun.sh Wrote:how does that even happen?

that's like getting a new oven, causing your fridge to break.

theEvilOne Wrote:I DON'T CARE!

...the fudge?

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ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Am also hoping the PowerColor isn't as loud as my current MSI Radeon 4670 (there's no fan control, so the fan is always blasting at 100%).

Actually, that does have fan control I think.  My brother has that card, and it's not very loud at all (much more quiet that his old Gigabyte version, which did have fan always on 100%, which he swapped for his current MSI card).

Maybe the inside of your case too hot?
19/01/2010 08:13 PM
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