Video Card Ugliness

I have this fairly nice setup for my home office, since I work from home more or less exclusively. I like to play the occasional PC game, so I have a reasonable video card setup. I had two eVGA 7600GT video cards in an SLI configuration. Well, this all turned sour last Saturday. I pulled out the cards and…


Two broken eVGA 7600GT cardsTwo broken eVGA 7600GT video cards

Can you see the problem? Here’s a pair of close-ups:

Two broken eVGA 7600GT video cards.Busted capacitors on a 7600GT

So I ordered an upgrade (no SLI this time around, since I’m having to pay for it myself) of a PNY 8800GT. It seems pretty nice and was only about $150 after rebate from Newegg. I was tempted to go back to eVGA, but I had a pretty bad experience with them when I was setting this box up. I decided to branch out.

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