I bought a new graphic card Sapphire ATi Radeon x1650PRO AGP 512MB DDR3 to replace 2 years old graphic card, GeCube Radeon 9200 SE. The actual reason I want a new graphic card was because I can’t play Need For Speed Carbon smoothly on my current system.
I’m a big ATi fanboy. All my computer system I bought were ATi powered; starting with Rage 3D 4MB, Radeon VE 7000 64MB and 9200SE 128MB. The reason I choose ATi was I always found the best performance per value ratio the best with ATi and waiting ATi best deal to grab a new system.
Actually it turns out my current system can’t fully support the new 3D graphic card. Here’s my current system spec: Pentium 4 2.4GHz C (HT), dual 256MB Kingston Value RAM, MSI PT-NEO8 motherboard with ViA8277 chipset, 80GB Seagate SATA hard disk.
What happened?
I plug the new 3D card nicely, connected the power supply cable, and turn on the system. Early, I didn’t face any problem to reboot the system and uninstalling the old drivers and reinstalling the new drivers.
I fired up Need For Speed Carbon, and go to 3D settings and set new (high) quality preference. The game went smoothly and I enjoy the graphic as I preferred.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t another happy ending story. When I play the 3D game, NFS Carbon, after 5 minutes while I’m on the racing the system crashed. The screen turned black and showing message “no-signal” while sound still continues. After a few seconds (around 30’s) the system restarted and showing message – “system has been recovered from serious error.
I restarted the system and it went back as nothing happened. The system went back smoothly. But it just I run a 3D game around 5 to 10 minutes. The same problem keeps coming back, as I’m playing 3D games.
Now what… after spending much on a new graphic card (1/3 of monthly income!), it turns out a complete waste! Actually this wasn’t the 1st time I had this problem… I had similar problem back to 2004. Am I too dumb choosing the right peripheral? Perhaps does shopping for hardware for every 2 years turns me into complete idiot while buying things like this.
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