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i never siad there was anythign wrong with it or anything, i just said gimmie it...mjrpes wrote:It's a very decent card.... good performance and fanless. The reason I got the 6600GT is because Gigabyte came out with a fanless version of it.AmIdYfReAk wrote:ohhh, btw.. gimmie the 9600
I hate noise
Yup. It would definitely impact many user's choice to switch brands.Foo wrote:Probably something the card manufacturers dont want you to know.
but a fresh install is cheaper then buying that 650 Watt PSU, sucks that you bought that PSU, but then again you won't have power issuesMaCaBr3 wrote:Man this thread saved me too! My computer was locking up and rebooting randomely and I had a huge list of DCOM errors in event viewer after I installed my 6600GT.
I really thought the new card was fucked up even bought a 650W PSU because I thought that was the problem...
Today I did a clean install and it seems to be going smooth as hell now!
It's actually pretty retarded that you have to do a whole clean install just because Ati and Nvidia have issues...
you shouldv'e posted your issue in here.
it is.YourGrandpa wrote:I thought it was a given that a clean install of windows was needed when you do a major hardware change.
Its not as simple as you'd think. Graphics drivers are some of the lowest level drivers in your OS. They run in kernel mode and bury references to themselves all over the registry.MaCaBr3 wrote:
It's actually pretty retarded that you have to do a whole clean install just because Ati and Nvidia have issues...
Kills On Site wrote:but a fresh install is cheaper then buying that 650 Watt PSU, sucks that you bought that PSU, but then again you won't have power issuesMaCaBr3 wrote:Man this thread saved me too! My computer was locking up and rebooting randomely and I had a huge list of DCOM errors in event viewer after I installed my 6600GT.
I really thought the new card was fucked up even bought a 650W PSU because I thought that was the problem...
Today I did a clean install and it seems to be going smooth as hell now!
It's actually pretty retarded that you have to do a whole clean install just because Ati and Nvidia have issues...
Both true and not true. changing processors and RAM will bear no difference in hardware performance i believe. optical drives should have no performance idfference. As for HDDs depends on if you are adding one or replacing one. Sound cards, maybe, motherboards definatly, most of the time I doubt windows will run if you just change the mobo. Yes a fresh install is always best to do about once a year or so, I do it in the summer when I have all the time I need and no school work to worry about.YourGrandpa wrote:I thought it was a given that a clean install of windows was needed when you do a major hardware change.
AMD cpu drivers installed by microsoft upgrade and during installationYourGrandpa wrote:RAM and CPUs do not require any software. There primary functions are handled by the motherboard, so it would only be obvious that the O/S wouldn't be affected by swapping them.
I would recommend a fresh O/S install for everthing else.
I use it everytime I upgrade drivers, works like a charm, and you start fresh.raw wrote:Just out of curiosity, did anyone try the driver cleaner before they reinstalled? I've used it and it seems to be quite thorough.
I thought they should too, and then I realized that would be bad for buisness. If you are shopping for a card and you have an ATI card and you see that for the best performance you need to reinstall Windows or at least run a few programs to get performance from the nVIDIA card you might decide just to buy another ATI card. Of course we are the types of people who like reinstalls and killing off all the baddies from ATI, but other people prolly don't want to take the time.mjrpes wrote:Huh, I've never heard it mentioned to reinstall windows for a video card upgrade.... I would think card manufacturers would put a big notice in huge font about this if performance were to degrade so much by going to a new card on the same install of windows.
I do have an extra hard drive lying around, so I could install windows on it to check performance out.
EDIT: thx, I'll try those links out first.
thats only for cool&quiet sacklady.axbaby wrote:AMD cpu drivers installed by microsoft upgrade and during installationYourGrandpa wrote:RAM and CPUs do not require any software. There primary functions are handled by the motherboard, so it would only be obvious that the O/S wouldn't be affected by swapping them.
I would recommend a fresh O/S install for everthing else.
Sounds tempting..mjrpes wrote: The reason I got the 6600GT is because Gigabyte came out with a fanless version of it.
I hate noise