Recent content by ByteBandit

Passed my old laptop on to my nephew and got myself a new MSI GT70 0NC-016UK gaming laptop :D The 9650M seems hard to find in the UK, a few seem to pop up on eBay but seem to be from Hong Kong and China. You'd probably be hit with import duty etc.

I'm thinking of replacing the GPU in my MSI GX700 Extreme laptop, currently an 8600M GT 512MB MXM II, with an 'nVidia 9650M GT 1GB DDR2 MXM II', which, according to my research, should be compatible. Any idea where I can pick up one of these, they seem to be pretty hard to find? I have found...

From what I have heard SP1 is prone to cause more crashes than it fixes, not so much a blessing but a curse. That's why I have been lothe to install it. Not to mention the DRM debate.

Just installed a new 450W PSU, the one in my tower system was only 300W not 450W as I had originally thought. However, it made absolutely no difference. I've been seeing more and more posts on various boards from people having problems with the 9600XT and nForce2 boards. The only thing I...

I have come across the same problem with my Connect3D 9600XT 128MB card while trying to fix another problem, see my other post. I have tried versions 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 4.1 of the Catalyst drivers and the only ones to give me an Overdrive tab in the control panel were the 3.10 drivers. I...

Yeah I know, and I'm dreading the thought. I have two large hard drives, the second being partitioned, and loads of data to back up...a BIG job and time consuming. I have also read of other people with 9600XT problems who have taken this step only to find it made absolutely no difference - I...

My system consists of an EPoX 8RDA+ nForce2 motherboard, 1GB PC2700 DDR RAM, an AMD Athlon 2400+ processor running at 2GHz, a Connect3D 128MB 9600XT graphics card and a 19" AOC TFT monitor set at 1280x1024@75Hz; my OS is Windows XP Professional. The card runs fine in Windows, but when I run a...