Graphics Card Help Needed
I should have not gone into my TS4 game, but I did and I now think my graphics card is making a noise, not all the time just when it starts up and a for a short while after its done loading, then it goes away. The best way I can describe the noise is this way: If anyone has seen the Star Trek TNG episode Schisms, there is a holodeck scene where they are trying to recreate the room they have been in and there is clicking sound in the scene. Well, the noise is something like that, cross between that clicking and a cricket chirping, or a cricket chirping, just something in that range of sounds. I think it could be coil whine but I'm not sure. Maybe somebody could tell me. What I was hoping I could do is switch out the graphics card for another one that would work with my PC and work well with The Sims games (all yeses for TS2 and TS3 and for TS4 minimum yeses up to Vampires or My First Pet stuff).
My current card is a AMD Radeon HD 6870, so I would like to stick with AMD. I do know about my OS, so no need to tell me about that and my Power supply wattage is 850w. My DxDiag is attached and I am hoping there is someone on here that is good with picking out graphics cards and knowing what PCs they work with. I should note my card works fine with TS2, works fine with TS3, with the exception of the conflict between my card and TS3 Seasons which started with the 1.55 patch, and is all yeses for TS4 up to Vampires, thou I do have 3 maybes (Laundry Day, Bowling and Toddler Stuff).