Forged Alliance

greetings. for anyone that may be curious, i managed to melt my video card, again, so i will probably be mia until next week sometime. methinks its time to stop abusing my poor laptop and acquire a real computer...

Hope you get it fixed soon, Starcraft 2 beta starts this month

gah, that sucks

Maybe if you know, played an honest more decent class, like... anything but a Rogue, bad things wouldn't happen? j/k!

Hope you get it fixed soon

haha, i was hoping that my cute cuddly druid would counter the rogue, but apparently that is not the case

what kind of video card was it? did the fan fail or something?

nvidia geforce go 7900gs in a dell inspiron 9400
not a super great card or computer, but it used to be sufficient. this is actually the second time the video card had failed, and i know others with the same computer who have had their video card fail as well. i think the issue is a combination of the card and the design of the computer not being able to keep everything cool enough, but it probably doesn't help that i use it pretty much all day everyday.

Idk much about your exact system, but my friend had a dell desktop that we put a better graphics card into. The fan connection on the mobo that was close to the graphics card only managed to run the fan on the card at half speed. It had the connector that only went in one way... in the end I just wired it to run at 12v all the time. Maybe there is some dell throttling stuff in the bios ( if you can access it on that dell??)

After we wired the gpu fan at a constant 12v, it ran about 10c cooler most of the time. Later I took of the heatsink on the gpu and put some arctic silver on there, which helped a little more. That and adding/upgrading the case fans.

ohhhhhh... just thought of this too. If you can access the bios make sure that it is running the pci-e bus at 100mhz and not higher. dell bios probably doesn't allow that adjustment, but make sure that is set to 100mhz. If it is higher it can fry cards.