Hmm I believe my K8N Neo3 board killed my VGA cards.

First off pc stats needed before anyone can help.
-MSI K8N Neo3 MS-7135
-Bios (AMI rev 1.0)
-AMD Athlon 64 2800+
-Infineon, DDR 400 1GB
-Aeolus GeForce 6600GT PCIex16
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-Hard Drives: SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP1604N 160GB 7200 RPM IDE
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Okay I bought a 6600GT PCIe and after a while the card displayed HORRIBLE graphical glitches so I got another and that did the same.  But in between cards I used my old ATI Radeon 9700 All-In-WonderPro in the AGR slot.  So I know for a fact all my other parts are functioning well its just either the cards are bad or maybe the motherboard's PCIe slot is somehow killing them.  If I RMA the board back how long would it take to get back to me and does anyone else think its the motherboards slot?

PSU's are the heart of the system. This is what provides the power to use all the components. Weak or failing powersupplies can manifest themselves in many different ways. Initially the PSU may be able to give enough power to run the system, but overtime if it is worked too hard the PSU will be unable to keep giving that power continuously. This could account for the benchmarks working fine for a while then the system slowly starts to have problems. With going back to your 9700 card between the RMA's it could allow the PSU to "charge" back up so it is able to give another run for awhile before it craps out again.
This still seems more like a power issue then anything else. It may be worth it just to try another PSU rather then replacing the motherboard. It would at least be an easier thing to do. A lot of local retailers most likely have a 30-day return policy and that would give you more than enough time to determine whether or not that was the problem.
Quote from: DarkHayoto on 23-September-05, 17:33:32
Note: Also MSI core center would not work correctly when I got my motherboard.  It would lock up when it began to run and eat 99% resorces.
Unfortuantely Core-Center is not a very stable program. Most of us dump it and use another monitoring software such as speedfan. It is a much smaller program and is very simple to use. Plus it uses almost no system resources. My laptop has been up for over 3 days and speedfan is using 3MB of memory and 3MB in the pagefile. And it has only 2min of CPU time.
Good Luck
Jeremy

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