lizdin
Chieftain
Hello all, I'm a bit concerned about my videocard.
When playing Civ4 after a while my screen is freezing and I have to restart my computer, i've encountered this before with an older computer when my cpu was overheating.
I have a Radeon 9500pro with fanless cooling solution called ZM80A-HP (check thier site here and here's a review).
The issue that i'm concerned about is the temperature of my videocard, I don't know how to check it and I believe it's hot ass hell.(if I touch the heatsink I get burned almost
)...
I've been thinking about buying a new card though, i've looked at the geforce 6600 and 6800, but I'm unsure. I'm angry at Ati right now because of the incompability with civ4 but that might just be temporary, It might not even be thier fault.. or?
And I'm also wondering about PCI-E, is it worth a motherboard switch? And how do I know if the one I have now might support PCI-E? And how much better is PCI-E vs AGP anyway? Or is it just a better visual experience?
A reply to all of these questions would be awsome, might be in the wrong forum but u never know
When playing Civ4 after a while my screen is freezing and I have to restart my computer, i've encountered this before with an older computer when my cpu was overheating.
I have a Radeon 9500pro with fanless cooling solution called ZM80A-HP (check thier site here and here's a review).
The issue that i'm concerned about is the temperature of my videocard, I don't know how to check it and I believe it's hot ass hell.(if I touch the heatsink I get burned almost

I've been thinking about buying a new card though, i've looked at the geforce 6600 and 6800, but I'm unsure. I'm angry at Ati right now because of the incompability with civ4 but that might just be temporary, It might not even be thier fault.. or?
And I'm also wondering about PCI-E, is it worth a motherboard switch? And how do I know if the one I have now might support PCI-E? And how much better is PCI-E vs AGP anyway? Or is it just a better visual experience?
A reply to all of these questions would be awsome, might be in the wrong forum but u never know
