old good used video card

***Ickie*** · January 15th, 2009, 13:24

for weeks my nvidia geforce 7800 GTX video card has been going out and it smells like burnt candy, anyone have a good one, that could help me out of this jam.

**MenendezDiego** · January 15th, 2009, 13:34

Just replaced my Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS

She's great, I just needed something more

***Ickie*** · January 15th, 2009, 14:16

that would work

***JoeW*** · January 15th, 2009, 14:35

Check Newegg. They have a 1 gig EVGA GeForce 9800 PCIe for $69.
It's on sale.

**Buddha13** · January 15th, 2009, 14:40

Hi Ickie,
Is it AGP or PCI-e.

Buddha13

***Ickie*** · January 15th, 2009, 14:43

pci e
for some reason beyond me newegg will not let me buy stuff

***JoeW*** · January 15th, 2009, 14:47

Well .... I got it confused.....
9800 is $129. Still a good buy.

**waco** · January 15th, 2009, 14:53

Ickie, try Amazon.com

***Ickie*** · January 15th, 2009, 15:24

question my board is a pci-e 1.o
will a 2.0 run on it?

***srgalahad*** · January 15th, 2009, 15:38

All I've got is my 'emergency' ATI x-300 256Mb. Price would be right but it's a pretty big step back.

***srgalahad*** · January 15th, 2009, 16:13

Originally Posted by Ickie

question my board is a pci-e 1.o
will a 2.0 run on it?

"PCIe 2.0 dictates twice the throughput of 1.1. 2.0 is forwards and backwards compatible: meaning you can run 1.0/1.1 devices in a 2.0 slot, and also run 2.0 compliant devices in a 1.0/1.1 slot."
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246217-30-pcie-pcie

Haven't found a reference yet for BIOS/driver issues

***Ickie*** · January 15th, 2009, 16:40

EVGA GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI Express 2.0
i just bought this one $49.99

***srgalahad*** · January 15th, 2009, 16:55

Yeah! he's almost back in business.

***Ickie*** · January 15th, 2009, 18:18

I run vista and the 7800 would only work with ms drivers, i never could get nvidia drivers to work from day 1

for about 3 weeks I have been working the butt off on this computer and daily the blue screen of death and this awful smell.

well today I had the blue screen 3 times, heck i have had the side cover off for 2 weeks and this card is cooking.
I hope I get this new card by early next week, 3 days the website says.

***stansdds*** · January 16th, 2009, 04:14

Originally Posted by Ickie

question my board is a pci-e 1.o
will a 2.0 run on it?

It should work ok, but you will not get the full potential out of a PCIe 2.0 card when it's plugged into a 1.0 slot. As previously posted, the 1.0 slot does not have the data transfer capability of the 2.0 slot.