My vid card exploded'd!! :'(

Steve123MC said:

I don't suppose you registered on the XFX website within the 30 days of purchase to receive the lifetime warranty did you?

No =(

Is HIS a good brand?

Capacitor Replacement Tutorial

Nice vid thanks, i'll look up the next one by that guy definitly :)

Though i will get a new card i still wanna fix this one at some point in time

If i were you i would stick with Nvidia.
How much $ did you want to spend for your next graphics card?

150$-200$ish, i was thinkin radeon for a change since they have GDDR5 memory and GeForce is a little more expensive.

I can get a 4870 1GB 750 clock speed for 150ish.

I have a question, would it be worth the extra 50$ for the 4890?

And whats this about the 5000 series i hear, would that give these cards a decent price drop?

im on my dads laptop which is a pain and getting hot so im gonna log i'll look more tomarrow

I would suggest either the BFG GeForce GTX 275 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

or the BFG GeForce GTX 260 OCX MAXCORE 55 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

Also check out Benchmarks here ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 - TechSpot

A couple other reasons to go with Nvidia are:
1. Nvidia are pulling in many game developers to use their PhysX and other technologies.
2. Nvidia has better driver support than ATI.

I think you have a good point about ATI's next graphics card having an effect on prices.
You should see price drops from both nvidia and ati.

dw96 said:

Then why do you say in your system specs that you love your ATI???

because nvidia blows (capacitors)