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Im not a very rich person, so when i finnaly got enough money to get a new video card opposed to my GeForce 440MX 6 months ago, i leap at the oppurtunity. The only problem was, me or my family didnt have a credit card, so i had to get a video card from BestBuy. Sadly, this turned out being a very bad decision. So now, i have a 256MB GeForce 5700 VE video card that sucks, and here i am 6 months later and its broken, it took me 2 years to finally get an upgrade and only 6 months into this new era, i am already in the retro video cards group, and it doesn't play any games for longer than 30 mins.
So here's my problem, the fan is busted. Probly ajared by some simple tap to the case while the fan was spinning and it hit a piece of metal and threw it out of order. So is it realistic to actually get a new fan? What about the installation of this by an unexperienced person like me? I don't have heaps of money to spend, if not any, to correct this problem. It pisses me off I got ripped off on this thing. I may invest into an ATI just because I really hate Nvidia now. But, Im no fool, so I could someone help me find a video card, better than this piece of crap 5700VE, that cost up to $120. I will apprieate all help, and Nvidia is still a possible purchase so please include good finds on those. Thanks for all help, and if anyone could figure something up on the fan problem that would be great too. By the way, I don't have a warrenty, I dont think, or at least one I could find. And I don't have the original box this came in either. Again, thanks for any help.
Here is a copy of my full computer specs. Dammit, i was hoping that my next computer fix was going to be an upgrade to my RAM.
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So here's my problem, the fan is busted. Probly ajared by some simple tap to the case while the fan was spinning and it hit a piece of metal and threw it out of order. So is it realistic to actually get a new fan? What about the installation of this by an unexperienced person like me? I don't have heaps of money to spend, if not any, to correct this problem. It pisses me off I got ripped off on this thing. I may invest into an ATI just because I really hate Nvidia now. But, Im no fool, so I could someone help me find a video card, better than this piece of crap 5700VE, that cost up to $120. I will apprieate all help, and Nvidia is still a possible purchase so please include good finds on those. Thanks for all help, and if anyone could figure something up on the fan problem that would be great too. By the way, I don't have a warrenty, I dont think, or at least one I could find. And I don't have the original box this came in either. Again, thanks for any help.
Here is a copy of my full computer specs. Dammit, i was hoping that my next computer fix was going to be an upgrade to my RAM.
Report