awesome, thanks Justin :tup:
so you’d be more inclined to say that my PCI-e slot is probably a-ok, and just got a shitty card?
yeah thats how the cards look when they are bad man.
Garbled text like that.
I would still swap it with a known good card to verify, but 99 percent sure on that card being bad.
cool, appreciated man
well, got it going in full force. Got vista all installed and just making sure the temps are running all stable since I had to remove 2 case fans due to the size of the CPU heatsink. So far so good… tweaking the voltage shortly 
I need that 8800, this 5200 sucks a bag of dicks. It seems like it’s bringing down the entire system using aero. Not slow, but not exactly fast. XP was a lot more forgiving