Little Help for CE - Video card advice!

[CrazyEddie]

Greetings

Ok. This afternoon the video card in my main development system exploded - so at the moment things have pretty much come to a halt - not just CEGUI stuff, but everything since I have all my 'other stuff' on that machine too

Anyway, I thought I'd try and get some opinions about perhaps the best thing to do here, the old card was the NVidia 7800 GTX and the machine as a whole is quite old (nForce 4 based). The main issue I'm having is with the whole PCI-E 1.0a <-> PCI-E 2.0 compatibility thing - I don't want to be buying a 2.0 card that will not work in my ancient mobo, though at the same time, all the 1.0a cards now available are seemingly crap in comparison to the dearly deceased 7800 GTX. The replacement card has to be NVidia and has to be equal or better than the old card.

So, does this effectively mean a whole new build? Have the PCI-E 2.0 backward compatibility issues been addressed?

Thanks for any tips

CE

[CrazyEddie]

Ok, after weighing many options and considerations, I am doing a new system. I'll not be in here anymore now until those parts arrive (tomorrow A.M.) and the system is rebuilt and functioning (some time over the weekend) - see you all on the other side

CE.

[scriptkid]

If you read this, welcome back

[CrazyEddie]

Hey, thanks

Not quite 100% yet, I still have a bunch of software things to sort out on the Windows partition, but with any luck it should all be done this afternoon...

For anyone interested I got the following:
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard.
4G DDR3 RAM
AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor
Gainward GTX275 896MB GS Video card.

The chassis, drives etc are reused from the old machine.

So, not quite top of the range on this occasion, but certainly a step up from the previous bits

CE.