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This Gainward GeForce GTX570 Phantom Graphics Card is Roasted

Dennis

I got my first pre-Christmas surprise yesterday. But it was not a good surprise. I was working on my computer and from one second to the other, ugly graphic artifacts appeared on my screen. I know this is never a good sign and I hoped that there is a problem with a driver as I messed around with the drivers one day earlier. But on the other side I knew, I would have seen the error already yesterday then. In the past I have seen similar symptoms with damaged PCI Express ports of a motherboard, damaged RAM modules or even … Continue reading This Gainward GeForce GTX570 Phantom Graphics Card is Roasted

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Photos of the PCI Express Port of a Gainward GeForce GTX570 Phantom

Dennis

Above you can see three photos of a Gainward GeForce GTX570 Phantom PCI-Express Port. I am not sure why I like the images but I think it´s because I have not that much photos on my blog of computer components. It might be that those image can be useful for later computer related articles. But to be honest, I uploaded the photos also to say “farewell!” to this video card. But I have some more photos and I will explain it in my next blogpost… Continue reading Photos of the PCI Express Port of a Gainward GeForce GTX570 Phantom