Unfortunatly, my Nvidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX died recently

Hi everyone!

I'm in a very difficult dilemna. Back in 2007, I bought with pride a Sager/clevo laptop with that specifications from Eurocom:

- M570RU DIVINE-X; 17-inch Widescreen with Glossy Surface; WUXGA 1920-by-1200 pixels
- Intel Core 2 Duo® T7500: 2.2GHz; FSB800; 4MB L2
- 2GB; 2x 1GB; DDR2-667
- 512MB GDDR3; Nvidia GeForce Go 7950GTX;


Halas, my graphic card died in october 2011 and I just put my laptop in a corner and just played PS3 games or Civ4 on my employer's Thinkpad.


The main reason was because I really didnt know what to do with it, if I should repair or not.

But now I would really like to do something with it!

So I was wondering if it would worth it to change my dead 7950 GTX card in that 4,5 years old laptop ?

And if so, what should I replace it with ?
Which card could work in my current laptop setup ?
Would it still be available on the market ?

Would it be affordable considering that it's an old laptop and we never know what else could die (unlikely the screen tho because I replaced it 1 year and half ago).



Thank you very much in advance for your advices and help!

 

The 7950 GTX ... is for me a legendary GPU.

 

Yup I agree with you! I never had problems running the games I wanted with high details at 1900 resolutions.


But eh, even legends are not eternal..... :*-(

I guess asking it to last 5 years long was too optimistic from my part. Specially that I never really cooled it down with a cooling pad or anthing of that type.

 

EDIT: deleted the links so no one else buys it instead.

 

Prema has just found you the greatest deal one could possible get in your situation and at the low price of ¢99...

Wow I still can't believe its that low...

 

Thank you very very much Prema. Indeed, it is a really good offer as you said IRIS.

Problem is I just need to make sure it's really and only my GPU who died.

I would think so because my screen was staying black even if I was able to hear the opening them of Windows and had to reboot it several times to make it work.

Than after a time, i was unable to go on my desktop, a error message was poping in my face and was only able to ride off it by disabling my GPU card so I could still use my computer perfectly with that disabled GPU which made me think my good old geforce 7950 GTX died.

So I will go at the computer shop place, make them run a few tests and if it's only the GPU I will definitly order that 0,99$ GPU card! Could make that laptop run flawlessly for another 6 to 12 months which would be awesome!

I just hope that no one order it before me. I have no idea how rare those cards are by these days.

 

These cards are relics of a time long past.

 

Yup mine just died. I can't find one cheaper than 110.00

 

It's not worth replacing really at this point, integrated graphics machines are faster.

 

I concur. Get a cheap Intel (dual core) or AMD (quad core) notebook and you'll beat the performance of that system.

 

Wow a thread from 2012^^

Sell your laptop for parts, hopefully you will get rid of it soon.

 

Why do people feel the need to necro threads that are nearly 2 years old just to post some useless garbage? (yes yes this post is useless too I know just ranting ok)