Just came back from HELL

[Wizard]

After reading the thread, you did some things very poorly. Nearly forcing ram to fit in slots? Take it slow and steady. It'll fit, don't force it. Or you placed them the wrong way, which I doubt.

 

Secondly, do what Cinder said. Triple check if your getting the right ampage into your video card. It maybe be the same card on a technicality, but you never know what changes were made to the board itself.

[ken_cinder]

You just reinforced my point GC, video cards (or any electronics for that matter) don't just fail out of nowhere. Something causes them stress, be it a faulty component on the card itself (rare given QA in reputable manufacturers) or some outside source (Your power supply) causing it, like underpowering it.

If your video card is eating all the 12v power it can and not getting enough, it's going to starve other components such as your CPU, which will cause system instability in general.

 

Not enough power, the card tries harder with less energy than it requires to work at full capacity. It will burn itself out. Think of not getting enough sleep and trying to run a marathon........