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Re: Performance Issues resolved

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From: Drinkenstein
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:55
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If you find a card that will work without out leaving the case open and a
fan blowing let me know cause I'll sure go out and get one myself

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"Steve Molander" <steve@stevemolander.com> wrote in message
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> Well, last night played a skirmish and the number of screen freezes was
> absolutely unacceptable.  Even opened another game and found the graphics
to
> suck.
>
> Today to opened the box and found my graphics card running hotter than a
> pistol!!!  I mentioned in an earlier post that I received a "component
> failure" error once while running Generals.  Looks like my board probably
> overheated during an earlier game.  Generals probably taxes the graphics
> such that once I start playing (very little freezing) it heats up to the
> point it fails (constant freezing).
>
> I left the side cover off the box and placed a small fan to blow on the
> boards and played a Zero Hour game with nary a pause!
>
> So, it looks my problem was hardware related.  Time to go shopping for a
new
> ATI card!
>
>
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From: "Drinkenstein" <vodka@beer.net>
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Subject: Re: Performance Issues resolved
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:55:10 -0500
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