10-18-2012, 03:53 AM
Update! Woowoo!
This Gigabyte 6770 is all kinds of bad. It started out good, but when I actually tried it in an actual 3D game it made me cry actual tears. It all started with cursor artifacts after exiting Minecraft. I totally wiped every singe trace of any nvidia and ATI video drivers from my system and re-installing from scratch. I still had the same problem. I was constantly checking GPU/fan speed data to make sure I wasn't somehow overheating it. I never once saw the GPU temp go over 40°C.
I tried playing some WoW on lowish settings and after a short flightpath I landed in a place that should have had trees, but instead it had flickering trees that turned on and off. I started flying around on my flying manhole cover, and got blackness and misery and a "VPU recover" notice after WoW crashed.
Since any kind of actual 3d gaming was totally out of the question at this point (and I really wanted to play some games), I took a look at my old "fan slowly dying" 4890 and decided to see if I could salvage it. I performed expert dust removal surgery on it and cleaned it up like it was new. I plopped it back in, re-installed drivers, and I think it's better. All of my careful cleaning seems to have solved the fan noise issues I originally had.
One thing I wonder about is if my power supply is at fault here. My 4890 requires two 6-pin power connectors, while the 6770 only required one. Is it possible that one of my PSU's 6-pin power connectors is faulty and wasn't supplying enough juice to the 6770? Is that a thing that might make a video card work fine unless it was doing actual 3D gaming stuff? The PSU is a Antec 500W.
This Gigabyte 6770 is all kinds of bad. It started out good, but when I actually tried it in an actual 3D game it made me cry actual tears. It all started with cursor artifacts after exiting Minecraft. I totally wiped every singe trace of any nvidia and ATI video drivers from my system and re-installing from scratch. I still had the same problem. I was constantly checking GPU/fan speed data to make sure I wasn't somehow overheating it. I never once saw the GPU temp go over 40°C.
I tried playing some WoW on lowish settings and after a short flightpath I landed in a place that should have had trees, but instead it had flickering trees that turned on and off. I started flying around on my flying manhole cover, and got blackness and misery and a "VPU recover" notice after WoW crashed.
Since any kind of actual 3d gaming was totally out of the question at this point (and I really wanted to play some games), I took a look at my old "fan slowly dying" 4890 and decided to see if I could salvage it. I performed expert dust removal surgery on it and cleaned it up like it was new. I plopped it back in, re-installed drivers, and I think it's better. All of my careful cleaning seems to have solved the fan noise issues I originally had.
One thing I wonder about is if my power supply is at fault here. My 4890 requires two 6-pin power connectors, while the 6770 only required one. Is it possible that one of my PSU's 6-pin power connectors is faulty and wasn't supplying enough juice to the 6770? Is that a thing that might make a video card work fine unless it was doing actual 3D gaming stuff? The PSU is a Antec 500W.