Crysis 3 Killed It!

[FredEx]

Damn, I bought this hot new card, 8600 had to be better than the 6850 I was using right, the number is bigger! I was running Crysis 3 on it and the the farking thing POOFED!

The caps in pink I replaced the first time it died, hooked it up again and was kicking ass at 1.50 FPS and BANG! A cap in the yellow at the bottom right is bulging and two in the other yellow area went POW and let out the magic smoke!

 

[SieB]

I guess that answers the question "but can it run Crysis?"

R.I.P. 8800 GT, your time here is done ;__;

 

[Permafrost]

new game "what can Crysis 3 kill??"......

 

[MacLeod]

Crysis 3 killed my bank account too. I was perfectly happy with my 5870 until I fired up C3 and could barely run it on Medium! So I had to run down to Frys and shell out $400 on this GTX670!

Ha! Who am I kidding? I was begging for an excuse to go buy a new GPU!

 

[FTLN]

Damn, I bought this hot new card, 8600 had to be better than the 6850 I was using right, the number is bigger! I was running Crysis 3 on it and the the farking thing POOFED!

The caps in pink I replaced the first time it died, hooked it up again and was kicking ass at 1.50 FPS and BANG! A cap in the yellow at the bottom right is bulging and two in the other yellow area went POW and let out the magic smoke!

What happened to you 560 ?

 

[FTLN]

Really I thought it was all working well ? Apart from the little bump on the chassis ..

 

[antihero]

Damn, beats my 4 fps in the DayZ mod on an old laptop. :lol:

 

[tinytomlogan]

wtf you bought an 8600gt? Your 6850 was better......

/fail/

 

[SPS]

Confused why you bought an 8600 when you have a 6850. The 6850 is better.

 

[FredEx]

wtf you bought an 8600gt? Your 6850 was better......

/fail/

OMG!

This is the HUMOR area, it is a FUCKING JOKE! That is a 7 year old card from my trash bin.

 

[SPS]

OMG!

This is the HUMOR area, it is a FUCKING JOKE! That is a 7 year old card from my trash bin.

But you're always so serious Fred!

 

[FTLN]

I could imagine crysis 3 doing this though, my vrm's heat up like mad in crisis 3 .... Didnt clock it was the humour section .........

 

[FredEx]

But you're always so serious Fred!

Well, that is how my sense of humor is sometimes, play it straight, I really never expected anybody to buy it. Sort of like the 40 fan push/pull. I thought it was obvious the card was old tech, just 256 meg. I bought it, but 7 years ago when they first came out and it was an oem package at a computer parts show/sale, so not a full warranty. A year later it had already been repaired by me and blew again some months later. I thought it being posted in the HUMOR area and the 1.50 FPS would have been a clue too...who would play Crysis 3 at 1.5 FPS? Hell, I can't play it on my 6850 which is multiple times the card the 6800 GT is/was.

I was a bit riled up due to something else, so sorry to have pounced.

This is identical to what I actually use, just a black label rather than the Sapphire label on the fan since I bought it "brown box" with no company markings:

 

[FTLN]

Well, that is how my sense of humor is sometimes, play it straight, I really never expected anybody to buy it. Sort of like the 40 fan push/pull. I thought it was obvious the card was old tech, just 256 meg. I bought it, but 7 years ago when they first came out and it was an oem package at a computer parts show/sale, so not a full warranty. A year later it had already been repaired by me and blew again some months later. I thought it being posted in the HUMOR area and the 1.50 FPS would have been a clue too...who would play Crysis 3 at 1.5 FPS? Hell, I can't play it on my 6850 which is multiple times the card the 6800 GT is/was.

I was a bit riled up due to something else, so sorry to have pounced.

This is identical to what I actually use, just a black label rather than the Sapphire label on the fan since I bought it "brown box" with no company markings:

So your 560 is ok ?

 

[Feronix]

No that part wasn't a joke.

I remember him posting about the the GTX 560 not working and he had to use his old 6850

 

[tinytomlogan]

The 560 was DOA it didnt survive the shipping. And sadly as his prize was just the CPU I cant do anything about it. The 560 was an old Gigabyte review sample I had and with press samples (and even brand new prizes) there is no RMA options.

Plus as I would have to do it anyways it would cost fred a fortune posting it and tbh I havnt got the time even if I could.

 

[AverageNinja]

^^ That's pretty unfortunate
I understand though, you could've just shipped him the CPU alone and you gave him a full system, so that's still pretty damn nice of you!

 

[FredEx]

^^ That's pretty unfortunate
I understand though, you could've just shipped him the CPU alone and you gave him a full system, so that's still pretty damn nice of you!

<serious>

That is exactly what I have said when I had mentioned it on here before, I got WAY MORE than I won.

I tried everything, even tried the card in a total of three systems. I tried it of course in the system it came in, tried it in my old system and a friend brought over a new kick ass system he built and we pulled his video card and tried the 560 in his system with a larger PSU and it was a no go. Even though we knew the card was bad, we further tested my new system. We tried his video card in this system and it was okay with the PSU in this system to verify there was no problem elsewhere, like the MB or PSU. Geeez, I think his card was a 670 (slips my mind at the moment, been more than a couple months now, back when I got the system). It had higher power needs than the 560, so it was a good test to try it to stress the PSU more, plus by then I'd added 2 hard drives he gave me for a mitre saw I gave him. All that was handled with no problem. I had already been using my old 6850, was using it from day one since I had to, so I didn't expect anything else to pop up, but he and I thought, "Hey, why not try his card!" Also I wanted to see how this system would do with a card more powerful than my old 6850. I didn't have anything to benchmark with loaded yet, plus I didn't want to stress his card heavily and have something freaky happen to it, I just tried a couple simple games. I got just a tease of what a much better card than the 6850 can do.

To give you all an idea how rough a ride the system had, the BIOS battery was loose, I had to re-seat it to keep the BIOS settings. It is extremely hard to get the battery out when seated. That box had to have taken one hell of a wallop to pop that battery loose.

</serious>

 

[NRG!]

The card probably refused to play crysis 3 because crysis 2 was such a poor let-down it couldn't be bothered.

Hmm, sounds familiar.

 

[AverageNinja]

<serious>

That is exactly what I have said when I had mentioned it on here before, I got WAY MORE than I won.

I tried everything, even tried the card in a total of three systems. I tried it of course in the system it came in, tried it in my old system and a friend brought over a new kick ass system he built and we pulled his video card and tried the 560 in his system with a larger PSU and it was a no go. Even though we knew the card was bad, we further tested my new system. We tried his video card in this system and it was okay with the PSU in this system to verify there was no problem elsewhere, like the MB or PSU. Geeez, I think his card was a 670 (slips my mind at the moment, been more than a couple months now, back when I got the system). It had higher power needs than the 560, so it was a good test to try it to stress the PSU more, plus by then I'd added 2 hard drives he gave me for a mitre saw I gave him. All that was handled with no problem. I had already been using my old 6850, was using it from day one since I had to, so I didn't expect anything else to pop up, but he and I thought, "Hey, why not try his card!" Also I wanted to see how this system would do with a card more powerful than my old 6850. I didn't have anything to benchmark with loaded yet, plus I didn't want to stress his card heavily and have something freaky happen to it, I just tried a couple simple games. I got just a tease of what a much better card than the 6850 can do.

To give you all an idea how rough a ride the system had, the BIOS battery was loose, I had to re-seat it to keep the BIOS settings. It is extremely hard to get the battery out when seated. That box had to have taken one hell of a wallop to pop that battery loose.

</serious>

I know that
I was just saying to Tom that it was nice from him to take an initiative like that