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Finally!!

After a month of suffering with the onboard graphics chip,
my new graphics card is on the way.  8-)

I blew up my Ati 1650 512mb from 2 years of ignorance and abuse.

Now I've got a  Radeon HD 5450  1Gb DDR3 on the way, and you had better believe I'm going to baby that thing. 

Now, if I could just get that 2.8ghz dual core AMD upgraded just a tad.....   

you had better believe I'm going to baby that thing.

Forgive my ignorance but what exactly do you do to 'baby' your graphics card?

you had better believe I'm going to baby that thing.

Forgive my ignorance but what exactly do you do to 'baby' your graphics card?

Well, with my last one, I made sure that every slider was set as high as it would go,
and left it that way while finding EVERY graphically demanding game and application I could to run it over with.

This time around, I plan on keeping things at the mid point and not pushing it.

I managed to get 2 years of faithful service out of the last card
until it gave up and shot it's cooling fan off inside the case,
so this one should hopefully last much longer than that 2 years,
while still giving me at least the same performance.

I hope....

Graphics cards are designed to be used and abused. You're fine. Your old card probably had a defect or was poorly designed.

I wish all things made with defects or poor design ran like that one did. 

If they did, I'd still have a few cars I really liked. 

keeping things at the mid point and not pushing it.

Veering off thread slightly, I took Mictheslik's advice and looked at Jesus Altuve's FSX.cfg tweaks (on another site).

I've never heard of these tweaks, but you definitely have my attention now! 

Where may I find this Jesus and his tweaks?   

[quote]I've never heard of these tweaks, but you definitely have my attention now!

That's the one.

[quote]That's the one.

HOLY JESUS!!!

[quote]HOLY JESUS!!!

Thanx for the Jesus info..I'll try it
I "baby" my video card once a month by removing it & cleaning out the cooling fan    my last onebound up & burned out the card   :'(