Nviida Geforce 8800GT

It's my card. I swapped the 8500 in and no problem. Calling Dell since I have a 3 year warranty.

Thanks for the tips on a replacement.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

Seeing as this is the only PC game I play....should I get another Nvidia? or are the Radeon HD VisionTek better? I'm not so much worried about cost, but I want the best possible card I can put in my Dell XPS 720 without having to change the power supply or cooling system. I wanna just plug it in and play. Any recomendations?


I'm looking at the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1 GB card, but I don't know if the power supply or cooling system I have now would support it. I'm researching as much as I can, but don't see much about minimum power requirements. Is 500w that standard? Would I better off just going with the GEFORCE 9800GTX + 512MB considering this game is the only PC game I play?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

While I'm asking questions....right now my rig has two 1024 memory cards, so 2048mb total. I have two more available slots, so would it be smart to throw a third memory card in there? Would it improve performance?

I would try to update your computer for GR not for CoX as it is right now. Also, I'd wait till after thanksgiving to get a card, you might get a better deal on one that you're already looking it.

Awesome is right about the RAM, to an extent not all RAM works in pairs. I'm positive that Dell computers do run best with paired RAM.

So if I add the 2GB memory card, I should remove one of the 1024MB cards? Or do the paired cards have to be the same capacity?

Well I ordered my stuff today. Instead of getting an additional 2GB memory stick, I ordered two more 1GB memory sticks. This will give me a total of four 1GB memory sticks....hope that works well.

I was all set to buy the 9800GTX Nvidia 512MB card, but the geek on the other end of the line talked me into a VisionTek Radeon HD 4670 1GB instead. I know the game is currently set up to be more friendly to Nvidia, but I do believe with GR this will change. The ATI card is 1GB instead of the 512MB Nvidia card, and yet it was $40 cheaper.

I have 21 days to return anything if I don't like it. Hope I made the right selection. -

My pc started restarting about the time of the Halloween event; I played the game on max for 2 years no problem up to then. BFG 8800 gtx ultra, has not happened on other games I play regularly, dragon age origins, street fighter 4, only COH seems to do it. I've played those games over and over to see if it will do it and has not happened yet, if the pc doesn't reset on COH I get polygons all over the place.

Sure hope the graphics card is my problem and not something else. It's wierd cause even if I try to load the game in safe mode it immediatly freezes up and crashes.

I actually verified all files this time, then open it in safemode while monitoring it with Widows task manager. The memory usage just kept climbing and climbing. By the time the loggin page came up, it was using upto 580k and still climbing so I ended the process. Tried twice more with the same result.

Anyone know why this would be happening? Is it cause my graphix card went bad? I don't get why it would be using so much memory like that.

How do I display my total memory? I bought two more memory sticks and stuck em in the slots, but I'm not sure they are working. How do I make sure the computer is using 4 GB now instead of the 2GB I had before?

Bring up the task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del or click on the task bar). Select the Performance tab and look at the number next to Total in the box labeled Physical Memory (K), it's in kilobytes. 2GB is 2097152.

Here's an artical you may want to read.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...g94-reportedly

I own an Nvidia 8800 GT 512 and I crash once in a while. I count myself lucky as I bought one that had a superior cooler installed from the factory. It's served me well for 2 years. I'm no fanboy of either ATI or Nvidia, and since ATI has made some very nice improvements in their OpenGL support, my next card will prolly be one of theirs. Unless you have money to burn the HD 5870 may be a bit pricey, a good alternative would be to grab the 5850 instead. It's not all that much slower, and even when GR comes out you'll probably still be able to turn everything to max settings. If you go NVidia I'd wait for the prices to drop first. As of yet they haven't gone down much, only because the new ATI cards are a bit hard to find.

BTW,The maximum memory used by XP 32 bit is 3.25 gigs.

I'm not sure it's been mentioned, but you can use task manager to clear your memory if ya want or need. Just do the control, alt ,delete as had been mentioned. Then in the apps tab find CoHs, right click and minimize the game and then maximize it again. You've just freed up memory.

I am also using an 8800GT (XFX model) and I don't have any thermal problems. Just finished playing for an hour and my GPU temp is 51C.

In case it hasn't been suggested yet, turn off your computer, open the side cover and make sure there is no dust in the GPU's fan area (use a can of compressed air and blow it out). I do that every 6 months and I am surprised at the amount of dust that gathers there. This affects thermal efficiency resulting in higher temperatures.

Next... again, if not already asked, make sure you are not running CUDA based applications while you play (SETI@Home, etc.) as they push your GPU to the limit!

Again, the card was bad. I've replaced it and all is well.