Six to Eight weeks. And I don’t have onboard graphics.
So I’ve stuck my harddrive inside Paul’s PC, but I still can’t run any of my games because they won’t be on the registry, and all the drive references will be one letter out. (It’s his PC and he’s still got uni work to do, so his Harddrive gets preference.)
Admittedly half the games probably wouldn’t work on his ATI X1050 256 “but virtual 512″ which apparently doesn’t have the pixel shaders for Assassin’s Creed and the like. It does, however, run Fable faster than my artifacting, hang-entire-PC graphics card even with the new (awesome) power supply.
I’m more worried about my projects and stuff; his photoshop will have entirely different settings to mine and I’m not sure how much the graphics card helps in terms of non-lag on a big, multilayered piece (or is that more CPU, RAM?)
I will not be happy if they send it back. I’ve done my research and I know there were faulty batches of the things, be in a gap between the VPU and heatsink, or the bios not actually having code to make the fan run faster. Mine’s dying, and since I’ve got a over-30A-PSU I know it’s not that. They’re not selling it anymore (while they’re selling older graphics cards), there must be a reason. When I took it out, the heatsink was very, very hot, moreso than the CPU’s heatsink.
I didn’t overclock the thing (I assume they can tell, since I will be very angry if I get accused of it considering it would take a complete muppet to overclock something you can’t detect the temp or fan speeds of.) and I’ve two, correctly working case fans and a ventilation grid over the PCI slot.
I wonder what testing is involved, because it only artifacts in 3D applications, and at somewhat high load. The Sims Body Shop is high load, apparently, and hung my entire computer. (That was the last straw, there.)
If they say “fair wear and tear”, my retort would have to be “What, it only has a lifespan of six months?!” (less since it’s been doing this for at least two months now) I got an £80 graphics card to play games with, not to “Oh dear, I’d better not play Assassin’s Creed, I might overload the poor thing! I’ll just play Windows Solitaire instead.” Apparently they can give you less because of “the experience you’ve had out of it so far” which will be very annoying because they won’t include that two months of not being able to play my more intensive games.
If they say there’s nothing wrong with it, on top of paying for a new graphics card (because mine’s unusable) I’ll have to pay £26 in testing (£10) and delivery (£8 to get there, I presume the same for getting it back)
They also better not automatically reject it for lack of drivers and manual, since they don’t sell it anymore and presumeably won’t refurbish is, and I rang their customer service to make sure and they said “It’s fine, just put as much in there as possible.” (And I’ve included a letter telling them so, in case they’ve tried it.)
At least I’ll hopefully have something before uni starts again.
Oh, and guess what? Or head or animatio- sorry, exhead of animation, since it was due to our 40 person complaint he had to stand down and isn’t talking to us (the entire class)… is teaching our first lesson.
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