I bought a new video card

[Master of Puppets]

Nvidia GeForce FX 5900

Cool!

You REALLY shouldn't have held it with yur thumb on the inserts. Anyway, thats cool, have fun. If I was gettin one, I think you should've gotten a Radeon 9800 Pro cause its more powerful, but I have no objections to that.

you're lucky

[gouldy]

I've got some AMD athlon thingy, i dont really know whether that is good, but it runs no limits fine and that is all i'm bothered about, lol. and dude! your room is a mess, hahaha

no your room is not messy trust me[;)]

[Master of Puppets]

Originally posted by SMer

You REALLY shouldn't have held it with yur thumb on the inserts.

Please explain to me, someone who has buildling computers for 6 years, how touching the "inserts" is bad. Please enlighten me.

I hate ATI, that's why I bought a Nvidia. I am not going to discuss it.

Oh yeah, gouldy, I didn't ask for your opinion on the cleanliness of my room.

[8D]AWESOMENESS![8D]

I need to get a new one.

Ditto on ATI...those pissheads; I hate them. I'd go with Nvidia anyday [approve]

Obvioulsy, as you mentioned (cause you're a computer GENIUS) that touching them is not bad. SMer, unless you use all the strength in your hands to BEND the inserts, it does no harm.

-Elfman2519 [dorkhat]

PS--That room is spotless compared to mine [;)]

[Master of Puppets]

Another thing is to bend that insert, you would bust the plastic stuff the card is made of. Have you ever broken a computer card? It's a VERY hard thing to do. In case you never noticed, but that "insert" supports half the weight of the card when it's plugged into the motherboard. The retaining screw is there to keep from pushing the card out. It doesn't support much weight. So holding it by that doesn't hurt it in any way whatsoever.

Thats an awesome video card! The framerates will be great when playing games [pshades]

I have no problem with ATI, since I have an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and my framerates are always 60-100 [:)]

I've broken a card before, but it was on purpose [:)] You can damage a card by touching the inserts if you have enough of a static charge in you, but I would imagine it is pretty rare. I touch them all the time without a problem so far.

[Master of Puppets]

Originally posted by DragonsIOA

You can damage a card by touching the inserts if you have enough of a static charge in you, but I would imagine it is pretty rare. I touch them all the time without a problem so far.

Yep, that's why you should always ground yourself before handling computer parts. [8D]

Ha! I got a GeForce FX5600 Ultra next to me. Still have to place it in my computer though.

That one gonna kick your GeForce's ass [:p]

OOOOhhh... a video card ass-kicking competition...intriguing.

I might have to watch this [8D]

[dorkhat]

My FX 5950 rules all[:D]

[Master of Puppets]

FX5600 ultra won't beat mine

FX 5950 will.

[Master of Puppets]

Well, SMer wanted to discuss this on AIM, and he said all nvidia products, it says in the manual that you aren't supposed to touch this insert thing. So just to prevent any confusion here, I have a little bit of proof that it doesn't matter:



You wanna tell me again how I don't know what I'm talking about?

[Oscar]

MoP
you don't know what you're talking about, neither does Nvidia, SMer does [:D]

First of all, I never said you didn't know what you were talking about, that is so uncool to say that I said that. Second, look at #8. There could be other saftey pre-cautions you might need to do that you didn't see or something. I don't want to annoy you again, I just wanna prove something that I thought was true.

If I had a camera, I'd take a picture to show you where I read that.

I've broken a card before, but it was on purpose You can damage a card by touching the inserts if you have enough of a static charge in you, but I would imagine it is pretty rare. I touch them all the time without a problem so far.

Thats all I meant, I didn't specificly say that, but thats what I meant. Some people have full carpeting in their house, which is bad because when you walk on carpet, your feet tend to shuffle, creating static electricity. Thats why I said you shouldn't hold it by the inserts. Sorry if you were mislead.

[Master of Puppets]

Originally posted by SMer

Second, look at #8. There could be other saftey pre-cautions you might need to do that you didn't see or something.

Actually, go back a page and look at the pics of the "equipment" IE the card. Tell me how many warning stickers there are...

[Master of Puppets]

Anyway, to keep this mindless bickering from continuing, this topic will be locked.