{"id":1655,"date":"2010-06-12T21:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2010-06-12T21:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:44:20","slug":"anyone-got-any-video-card-knowledge-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/06\/anyone-got-any-video-card-knowledge-out-there.html","title":{"rendered":"Anyone got any video card knowledge out there?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hand<\/a>Margie’s been having regular fits with her current Nvidia GT 220 video card — or, more properly, the drivers thereof. As she is a regular reader of the Nvidia forums, she’s well aware of all the ins and outs of what’s going on, and can remove and reload drivers (including the latest-greatest beta ones) at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n

Basically, her machine just keeps black-screening in the middle of games, esp. video-intensive scenes, in LotRO and CoX (she hasn’t bothered with STO of late). Driver changes and settings tweaks and following up on all the hairbrained suggestions from the forums hasn’t solved it, but it has given her a lot of extra gray hair (which, I hasten to point out, looks quite distinguished on her).<\/p>\n

Sooooo … she’s looking at buying something new, and, disgusted with Nvidia driver-craft, she’s shifting over to ATI.<\/p>\n

The current front-runners are in the ATI Radeon 5770 (maybe the 5850, if she can justify the price differential).<\/p>\n

Two basic questions — three, maybe.<\/p>\n

First<\/strong>, given that she only runs one monitor, and the nature of the games she plays, is anything over the 5770 really overkill?<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, the three brands she’s looking at with the Radeon 5770 are the XFX, Sapphire, and MSI. Anyone have any particular personal opinions on those brands?<\/p>\n

Finally<\/strong>, how the heck can you tell the difference between the versions of the same card from a given manufacturer? Even going to the manufacturer’s site — e.g., the XFX site at their various 5770 offerings — they all look different but the functional difference is unclear.<\/p>\n

Any suggestions, guidance, or 1337 skillz advice would be more than welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margie’s been having regular fits with her current Nvidia GT 220 video card — or, more properly, the drivers thereof. As she is a regular reader of the Nvidia forums, she’s well aware of all the ins and outs of what’s going on, and can remove and reload drivers (including the latest-greatest beta ones) at … Continue reading “Anyone got any video card knowledge out there?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}