Wierd noise coming from GPU in irrlicht shader example

[eye776]

I have a cheap-ass motherboard, so the "spread spectrum" option has only two "states" : enabled and disabled.

Anyway, the card started exhibiting a few other issues (a thin silhouette over fog covered polygons, polygon edge tearing, small strange artifacts on polygon edges when applying DOF) and since I just bought the card last week I figured "send it into warranty, let them worry about it".

Ah well, back to ye olde (integrated) 6100.

S**t, to be honest, I replaced EVERYTHING but my processor because of an electrical fault that fried my motherboard (Biostar K8M00-MicroAM2 (rev. 1.0)) - I discharged into the f*****g power button!!??.

I didn't want to risk using the old power supply or the old RAM, and figured that if I get a new motherboard (GA-M61PME-S2P (rev. 1.3)), might as well get a decent video card to do some shader programming (the old graphics card was an AGP 6200).

Crap, from now on, I'm saving money every time I can.

My next PC will be brand spankin new, either ground-up, no more re-used s**t, with an i5 or an i7 (the way I see it AMD doesn't have any competing tech for now), or a laptop.

[hybrid]

Watch the thermal design of your system. Many cases are not capable of handling huge gfx cards and their much heat. I've also burnt two or three cards already.

[eye776]

Thanks for the advice.

My current case is a uATX format one, (the GeForce 6200 I previously had was a low-profile AGP card); only the motherboard got fried (and afterwards I got shocked while touching the case).

The GT220 is not a huge card (40nm, it gets power from the PCIE slot), but I'm a bit afraid to put the new build in the same case so, for now, it's lying assembled on a wooden board (I DO need my PC working ).

[m3ltd0wn]

from my experience biostar motherboards are proned to burn out, so is ecs
i hardly recommend gigabyte and intel for motherboards

i've seen some asus mobos with fried capacitors, msi is ok though.