Tag: card

Display Scaling: The pain continues.

So, upon waking up today, I learned that Nvidia had released a new driver set (295.73). Cool, after waiting 2 months, I had another chance to get my video card scaling working again. Wrong. These drivers behave identical to the previous set, or indeed, ANY driver set I try to use: they simply refuse to […]

Video Cards, Dust, and Heat

It was bound to happen within the first 2 years: I thought my video card was dying. Well, more correctly, I though the fan on it was dying. The card, a PNY produced Nvidia GeForce 9800GT, was overheating, reaching temperatures of just over 100 degrees Celsius, in effect cooking itself to death. Even with the […]