Hey there, today is a sad day. I think my good old companion, my 8800GTS (320) gave up the fight. I see weird vertical yellow-blue lines everywhere, I can see weird codes on booting screens. Even the bios has these weird vertical lines, and I think this is a VGA ram issue, it's dying. At least I can use it without drivers, if I try to install one, my windows becomes a pixelated mess, like old nintendo glitch-ups, and safe-mode is the only way to use the PC. I tried two other monitors, another cable, but the problem is still here. It has to be the card. or..
Before I'm talking about a possible upgrade, is it possible that a virus is doing this? My spyware/antivir can't find anything, but still. Or is there a way to fix it? I'm interested.
So, I have a budget of 125$. I'm playing on 1280x1024 resolution, with 2-4x AA, this really depends on the application.
I would be grateful if someone would suggest the best possible card for this price range, both Nvidia, and the ATi counterpart, so I can compare them. I would like to have a nice upgrade, so newer games can run without me getting eye cancer.
Mainboard has PCI-E 16x, so 2.0 cards are alright.
Please help me out, it's urgent.
(I'm asking this mainly because my experience with graphics cards is about 3 years old, and I don't know much about the new stuff.)
