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Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)
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30. October 2007 @ 16:06 |
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30. October 2007 @ 16:14 |
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800x600? Ugh, I sincerely hope I can go higher than that. I reckon I should, my card performs around 45-55% of the speed of an 8800GTX, and therefore should get around 20fps at 1600x1200. Obviously that's not playable, but the benchmark I read chose that high resolution as it was testing 8800 cards. Consequently at 1440x900, I reckon I'll get it playable.
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30. October 2007 @ 16:25 |
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I haven't played my Wii in months. Nothing good on it. I keep my 360 for titles like halo and gears of war. Plus I hate using keyboard and mouse for games like oblivion. I got it the first day it came out, I bought two and sold one, so I actually made a profit. BTW PS3, wont have better graphics, because overall the are about the same power.
Sam, why would you need to pay for a second one? You know they have a three year warranty right?
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30. October 2007 @ 16:27 |
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Hey Sam you will play it fine, since I get about the same FPS as Ray, on the same setting, just on a higher resolution. Since you have a more powerful card then mine, you should be fine.
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30. October 2007 @ 16:33 |
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Damn straight.
I think you miss my point about the 360, the repair process takes such a lot of time and seems to happen so often, you may as well get two so you have a backup... lol
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30. October 2007 @ 16:44 |
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Mine broke 10 times, I know what it's like. I still love it though :)
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30. October 2007 @ 16:47 |
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A nameless, Microsoft-branded box, there's no love there, cool as it is. Now my PCs on the other hand, now there's plenty to love about them....
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30. October 2007 @ 16:54 |
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Hmm when it comes down to it, the people that I actually love are my family, friends, and good looking females! Of course the last part is actually lust, but we'll get to that later lol.
Electronics, well I like them and they are cool, but thats about it. I'm not like some weirdo, NAMING my computers(jk Sam lol).
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30. October 2007 @ 17:05 |
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pff, joke all you like, a large number of people I know do it, it doesn't bother me in the slightest, besides it means you don't end up having cruddy network names, like "mypc" or "sam".
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30. October 2007 @ 17:38 |
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I don't know anybody else named Abuzar, so that's my network name!
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harvrdguy
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30. October 2007 @ 17:49 |
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Sam, since Abuzar implies that you LOVE your computer, like he LOVES his family, I would be interested in knowing what name you gave your true love --- lol.
I have three computers - I sell houses and I used to have two assistants: Sony, Arcus, and Richdesk.
The Sony was from the monitor, the Arcus was from an old monitor - (now it's a sony monitor with an Arcus pasted on it) and the Richdesk is a sony monitor - I just know it's my normal daily computer (not my best gaming machine - the one that I LOVE, and just added all those fans to. I love it because it allows me to play those wicked video games, like that great video that Ray just posted! :)
-Rich
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30. October 2007 @ 17:58 |
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Precisely, so what's wrong with that? I paid for them, I built them, I look after them.
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30. October 2007 @ 18:05 |
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Guys, I need your help.
Since my real estate company closed, I had to move my whole office to my house. The company I joined doesn't have an office for me until next year. Anyway, I have one PC in my camping trailer along with 4 printers. They are all on a wired network in the trailer. I need to add a wireless access point so I can talk to my other computers in a different room of the house. One of those has a $30 usb wireless card (zoom) that is working flawlessly.
For a wireless access point, I just bought a cheap $30 Trendnet TEW-430APB. It should have worked.
It accepts a cat5 ethernet input, and has an antenna. It isn't a router. It is supposed to be able to connect to a wireless router.
It does see the wireless router. But it won't go and get an ip address for the pc that is in the trailer, so I guess it is defective. It looks like it's sending only, not receiving. On wireless statistics, which I access through my browser, it shows over 700 frames sent, but 0 received. It was refurbished by tiger direct, but for $10 extra I could have bought it new on newegg - duhhh!
But I think I want a better one that at least tells you the signal strength.
Who knows anything about wireless access points?
Second thought, will a wireless router (with at least one ethernect connection - which my roommate has) connect to another wireless router and thereby act as a wireless access point?
-thanks, rich
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30. October 2007 @ 18:07 |
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Sorry I'm afraid I can't help you there Rich, but just as a suggestion, you may get more help if you made your own thread on this, it's not really on-topic posted here...
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harvrdguy
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30. October 2007 @ 18:08 |
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Just teasing, Sam. Like Abuzar. I feel the same as you do. I love my computer too. And now that you guys have clued me into ventilation, etc., it's become my techie "science project."
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harvrdguy
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30. October 2007 @ 18:09 |
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Anyways, what'd you name her?
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30. October 2007 @ 18:10 |
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Who me? See my profile, my first blog post, back in September.
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harvrdguy
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30. October 2007 @ 18:10 |
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Ok, I hear you Sam, but I figured since you guys are so savvy, you might be network pros as well - thought I'd try.
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30. October 2007 @ 18:13 |
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Unfortunately not, most of my network knowledge or success comes from my friends.
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harvrdguy
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30. October 2007 @ 18:23 |
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ALEXANDRA !!??
That is a very classic name!
Hey, btw, is that Alyx's full name - the one from half life 2? You know, the one that Gordon Freeman has a crush on. Quote:
"There isn't much that Gordon can't handle, with the possible exception of you, baby." "Oh, Dad!"
Is Alex, or Alyx short for Alexandra?
I believe that name comes from Greece. There was or is a city named Alexandria. Are you a fan of the Greeks?, or maybe you know a nice lady or a relative with that name.
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30. October 2007 @ 18:24 |
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Yes, to your question. However, look at what case I use. What's that name short for? Can you guess the inspiration?
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30. October 2007 @ 19:56 |
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Yeah all I know about networking is that I have a wired cored plugging everything in, and that I have a wireless router so my friends can use their laptops when they come over. I don't even have it secured, so I can claim my neighbors were leeching off my network, and that THEY were downloading the movies.
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30. October 2007 @ 21:05 |
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Just wait until they hack your router so you can't access it but they can...
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30. October 2007 @ 21:24 |
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this is totally unrelated to naming pcs, but by playing a game at 800x600, what is the difference between that resolution and 1200x1600? Do you see more on the screen with a larger resolution? I am fine with 800x600, I just dont see what the difference is between that and higher resolutions, besides the fact that you have to sacrifice so many fps to play at higher resolutions.
So whats the advantage?
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30. October 2007 @ 21:27 |
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it looks ridiculously better. You don't see more, but personally I think 800x600 looks terrible, really blocky.
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