RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Monday, 22-May-17 15:28:20 UTC
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Well, my GPU died the other day. Was using a Sapphire HD6870 since 2011 without any issues, but it started malfunctioning through the week, and after three consecutive power outages in one morning started displaying vertical blue bars on the screen. Ended up buying a new one on saturday and when I tried to install it I realized this card had a DVI-D slot instead of DVI-I (why DVI-D exists when DVI-I only has 4 more pins so the production cost difference is negligible and it's capable of every possible combination of pins is anyone's guess) so I had to wait until monday to get a new cable. Just finished installing that, but on the plus side now I'm using a XFX Rx 580 instead and the 7 extra GB of video memory help quite a bit.
