It was 2014 when I purchased my Powercolor AMD Radeon R9 270x pcs+ and I was quite happy with this card, but every graphics card will die at some point, at least if you are power user. To be honest, … Continue reading New Beast In The System
My graphics card is toast, and I am not sure if the GPU is dead, or the RAM or the buffer of the card, but it doesn’t matter anyway. I tested everything and I will have to purchase a new one. I write this post with the WordPress mobile app, and damn is this a horrible way to write for the blog. I’ll be back in some days when I found and installed a new card. Continue reading Blogging Silence Because…
I think I was not that creative this week to find a decent scene for the Weekly Photo Challenge Perspective. I took two photos of a passive heat sink of an old graphics card which I used as subject in the challenge last week too. Here is the other perspective of the heat sink… Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
I mentioned weeks ago that my old graphics card was toasted. That happened in a very bad time as I had other costs to pay the last months. I had some savings but I did save the money for something different. Anyway, I can be days and sometimes weeks without a computer game but then, well you know what I mean if you are gamer like me… you simply come to a point where you miss it to play games if you do not have proper hardware for it. I had this NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS as a replacement and … Continue reading I Bought The PowerColor Radeon R9 270X Graphics Card…
You can download the AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Drivers since today. You will find the AMD drivers download page here. The release notes for the new drivers can be found here. Continue reading AMD Released the Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Drivers
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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