Dead Graphics Card

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gmcdoug1

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Hi everyone,

About 6 months ago I fitted an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb graphics card to my PC. My motherboard and processor is quite old (P4 1.7Ghz processor). Everything had been working great until a few days ago when I was playing a Pro Evolution Soccer 5...

lines started to appear all over the screen to the point where I could not see any of the game. Ever since then lines appear randomly all over my screen no matter what im doing with the PC.

I have since replaced my graphics card with the original one from my system (a pathetic Geforce 2) but am now unable to play and modern games. So my questions to anyone who can help are...

  1. Is my ATI Radeon card dead or would it work on another PC?
  2. Has it died due to the lack of power in the system or the fact that the card didnt have its own power supply?
  3. Would replacing this card with another fairly high end one result in it too blowing up?
 
Its only a very high end Asus Dual GPU card that has an external PSU. There should be no problems using a normal interior PSU.

I agree, thae card has most likely overheated. Is there a fan on it, or just a heatsink?
 
how good is that video card? ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb
my cousin has one, so i wondered the quality of it,

compared to mine,
also what do they get on 3d mark?
 
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