Victory!

First video card RMAed and received back from eVGA. Here's the beauty- I sent them a 256 Mb GeForce 7900 GT CO (factory overclocked). They don't make that card any longer, so they send me the straight up 7900 GT, but in the 512 Mb variety. Hotness. One down, one to go. It'll just be nice playing WoW without having constantly to go into the Video Options menu and cycle thru turning Triple Buffering and Vertical Sync on and off like some disjointed superstitious ritual. The memory on those 7XXX cards were crap (an eVGA first, I might add), and they eventually would reach a point of total disrepair. Constant tearing, artifacting, crazy background pixelization on your desktop, etc. This new card hadn't come at a better time. It was bad last night, but when I got home this afternoon to start questing in Shadowmoon Valley, I launched WoW.

And the whole damned computer restarted.

I found this to be quite odd. So I launched WoW again. And it black screen restarted. Again. UPS dude got here at 7pm tonight with the new card. Put it in, fired up 3DMark06, ran it a few times to stress test the card, and proceeded to log into Carbonite and clear my mailbox. Warrior needs sleep, badly.