Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20141201072351/@comment-53539-20141213232952

I got a new graphics card in the post on wednesday. There was no VGA cable on the card. Hard to wait for a DVI cable to come through the post because my monitor isn't HDMI.

So basically all you need to know if I was without a computer between wednesday and today and it sucked. Good news is I can go back on my minecraft server for the first time in weeks since my monitor isn't going to cut out... My old card used to die on me, it reached temperatures of 100 degrees account to speed fan! The highest I saw it go before it cut my monitor was 112 degrees. >_<

I tested the new card out by playing skyrhim on the highest settings the card allowed for 5 hours. Previously I had gummy graphics, the dragons looked like they were made of clay, I had no shadows, no lighting, no details on any models barely. And Minecraft was now reduced to the shortest block load so I could only see 2 chunks at the most (I think) and it crashed after 1 hour. Hence why I stopped playing it. Also... I had to check my computer when I switched it on because the card was so silent compared to my old one I almost didn't believe it was working.

the other tenant in the building asked what I was doing with my old card... I said I'm keeping it as backup as it still lets me see youtube and runs a monitor, it just doesn't do anything else. I then said that what I would really want to do with it if I could was shot it with a gun at point blank range for the 4 years of hell its given me! That made him laugh. :-D