Ahhhh!

[*JEREMY*]

Well first I just have to say never work on your pc when your too tired!Tonight I decided I would check the voltage on my oem 8500.I checked the core volts and then went to the ram to check it and I slipped and shorted 2 points out,that was all it took to kill it,there was a little circuit trace burnt in half and the pc would give me the beep that there was no vid card so I fixed the trace and now it posts but there are just a bunch of lines on the screen,its dead and so now im using an old pci card.Im going to go pick up a new one tommarrow at best buy and I have the choice of a retail 64mb 8500 or a retail 128mb 8500/le at the same price.For you hardcore video guys which one do you think I should get.I read that the retail 128 le's are at 250 so I dont have to worry about getting stuck with a 230.Need some help deciding,thanks.

 

[xl]

Sorry about your card man... I am in the porcess of worrying that when I slipped with the screw driver it cut some mini wires in the motherboard Well I think the extra RAM just allows you to run at higher resolutions. Depending on your moniter, this may be unnecassary.

 

[Razorclaw212]

Wow dude that does suck, but hey at least you seem to have the funds to pick up a new one, if I did that I wouldn't have a computer for a while... but I am a poor Bible College student

 

[*JEREMY*]

Well I got the 128mb le.Heres my 3d mark score with it overclocked to retail speeds.
http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3076347
This is with a xp1700 unlocked and an Epox 8k3a motherboard,I just noticed that I dont have my cpu at 1750 which I run stable because I was doing some testing earlier,gonna bump it up and try again.

 

[futura2001]

Ouch, Way back when I had a Viper V550, I knocked some transistors off and had to solder it back on. Luckily it still worked. Then I got a new video card and took the hsf off the V550 to see what would happen. It burned...
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