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Nov 4, 2004, 3:40pm

[View Quote] Yes, you have to be able to transfer the picture to the object. This
consumes bandwidth from the provider that's hosting the image.

Nov 3, 2004, 12:51am

[View Quote] I'd be more concerned with high fructose corn syrup in food and other
hygiene products.

Nov 4, 2004, 1:35am

[View Quote] I recommend nVidia's 6800 for $280. Albatron has some great technical
support and great benchmarks in comparison to other brands. I use them
for my system (motherboard and graphics card).

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-170-056&depa=1

I don't recommend ATI at all though. Some people are lucky, a lot of
people aren't in getting them to work.

Nov 4, 2004, 1:46am

[View Quote] That's great. There's some bad driver problems, my friend and have had
two burn out on us, my other friend that lives in cali had his all out
just stop working. Another friend can't even get his computer to
recognize it (will work in another computer, but won't in his), but it
will recognize the nVidia card that he bought after that didn't work.

I have no problem admitting that the 9800 is better than the FX series,
but in my experience the ATI chipsets tend to be a pain to deal with. I
just want to set it and forget it.

Nov 4, 2004, 2:37am

[View Quote] Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a large scale problem. It's enough for me
not to use them though. In comparison though, nVidia has little to no
problems with anyone I know. I haven't heard of anything bad with their
chipsets either. Drivers tend to be great as well.

They're both good, the differences in them are null, 5 fps in Doom3 when
you already have 130 isn't that much of a difference. Just get whatever
you like, but get the best you can get.

Nov 4, 2004, 4:51pm

[View Quote] There is little difference in the general performance, excluding the 128
bit, which I hear performs horribly. (in reference to powercolor brand I
think)

But I'm sure since he's using it for gaming he picked the pro, or at
least the standard version.

Nov 4, 2004, 5:02pm

[View Quote] Both are good cards, as I said, the differences in them are null really.
If you like to be a leet h4x0r, I guess you can look at the numbers
and benchmarks. But both are going to perform pretty close to the same.

I'd say get whatever you feel most comfortable with. Installing,
configuring, and troubleshooting.

Also your operating system might play a large part in determining it.
ATI has horrible compatibility with xwindows in *nix systems. I'm going
to assume that CP is using Windows though, which should present no
problems finding compatible drivers.

Nov 5, 2004, 12:53am

[View Quote] They were evenly placed. ATI excelling in games that use DirectX,
nVidia in games that use OGL. Again, it won't matter for the little
difference (there were some where even older FX cards beat out the
x800). There were even some where the difference in them was about .25%.

Clearly in some of these benchmarks even the non ultra versions are
outperforming the x800xt versions.

I would say still, go with whichever. You'll see little difference in
the end. 5-10 fps isn't that big, until 5 years from now when the card
only runs at 20 on games. At which, put away $5 a week and you'll be
set when that time comes. You'll probably have enough to build a whole
new system. $1200 is a decent amount to get you nearly everything high end.

E N Z O says nVidia, so that automagically gives it betterness. ;)

Nov 6, 2004, 1:13am

[View Quote] I've never heard of the fx5500 though. And that's more than enough if
all he needs it for is AW.

Nov 6, 2004, 2:05am

[View Quote] Yeah I agree, the 5500 fx is a pretty bad card to get. But If he's not
doing anything too intensive he's fine.

Nov 6, 2004, 10:53am

[View Quote] Yeah I would've paid the extra $7 for :

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-170-055&depa=1

Nov 6, 2004, 10:55am

[View Quote] (I think PCI-E is backwards compatible with PCI... but it would be
stupid to do that so he'd have to probably get a whole new system...
wouldn't be too hard with $500 though)

Nov 8, 2004, 3:09pm

[View Quote] Yup, but it really doesn't matter, there's AGP versions for cheaper.

I would recommend the 9800pro for best bang for buck. I don't recommend
it for ease of install or without lack of future problems though. But
yeah, if it were for Christmas for me I'd throw it up there because you
can always return it easily around Christmas (usually they give you a
hard time on PC hardware).

Nov 9, 2004, 1:12am

[View Quote] No, this is only true if you build computers from scratch. I'd say 98%
of preassembled "mainbrand" computer system that buy pieces in bulk --
like Dell, Emachines, Compaq, et al. -- usually have onboard cards that
are not able to be disabled. _SOME_ have jumpers, most do not. It's
always good to replace the motherboard on a new machine if you have the
ability to do so (if it came with a rinky-dink "branded" one).

Nov 9, 2004, 1:37am

[View Quote] Well, I think that they do support AGP, but there's no interface.

Nov 9, 2004, 2:22pm

[View Quote] Again, technically, it uses the AGP interface. Just because it provides
no slot doesn't mean it's not an AGP card. But that's the reason why
you will not usually find an AGP slot on brand computers.

HP, Compaq, Emachine, and (Dell sometimes) are the main culprits. And
they're the main suppliers of computers to home users. But yes, AW is
on the lower end in terms of what it needs for video processing.

Nov 12, 2004, 1:13am

[View Quote] No, it was because Homer was challenging everyone to a duel I think.

Nov 12, 2004, 1:20am

[View Quote] We're the first species to take care of our sick and weak. Our greatest
advantage is that. Taking care of the sick and weak increases our
likely hood to survive because of them carrying a rare gene that may be
beneficial in the future. A small price to pay now for the extension of
our species.

It's still survival of the fittest, we're just the only species capable
of making our weak extremely fit for survival. This stems back to the
family units caring for their sick (blind/deaf) for example. Maybe more
or less not to do with technology but more based on our morality and
empathy as a people. Some societies are less akin to this though, for
example, some of our communities have national health care (almost all
"civilized" nations have this in one form or another), some leave their
elderly to die once the leader of that family is dead (some Native
American traditions are like this), it's all based on society.

We're the only species that's able to alter our own genetic makeup as
well. This is one of the major issues for debate today. Should we
further research into this field to cure diseases? Should we sacrifice
embryonic life (already dead embryonic life mind you) to get the data we
need to cure things such as cancer, diabeties, renal failure, et al.?

Nov 12, 2004, 2:57pm

[View Quote] Actually it is. It's the broadest, but most precise definition. In
order to be fit, you have to contain the genes that are necessary for
survival.

Evolution is not always a good thing.

Nov 12, 2004, 3:01pm

[View Quote] All animals kill for needs other than food. Many of the preditors kill
for teritorial reasons. No other large scale preditor has as many in
numbers as we do either. It's natures way of evening things out. We
have 6+ billion people, we can kill on a larger scale (technically
because there are more of us).

We do kill for sport, yes, but I'd say a good 75% of the people who do
kill for sport _also_ eat the things the kill. Fishing, deer hunting,
et al. We also kill because some species have no natural preditors in
the area, thus helping to balance out the equilibrium within the
environment. Deers for instance, where I live, are out of control and
thus hunting seasons is open at certain times.

Nov 12, 2004, 5:57pm

[View Quote] This then breaches out of human survival. We have the ability to take
care of our weak and thus survival of the fittest tends to take a whole
different context to us.

Nov 12, 2004, 6:09pm

[View Quote] You haven't lived in my area then. Before hunting season is open deer
are everywhere. There's no natural preditors in the area because
they're afraid of humans.

Nov 17, 2004, 3:19pm

[View Quote] The only way you get blue screen-ed is if you're having driver problems
in NT based systems.

Nov 18, 2004, 1:02am

[View Quote] They're not even really a GUI application, just text in colums with some
colors. Why is memory being low any concern to the user, the question
should be. Maybe an administrator.

Nov 18, 2004, 7:18pm

[View Quote] You can make something just as easily in linux as you can in windows.

Nov 19, 2004, 12:56am

[View Quote] Anything beyond Windows would be more stable. BSD, Unix, Linux, BeOS,
Darwin (OSX). Hell you could even probably write your own specialized
OS for dealing specifically with what they were doing. For ATMs I would
expect it, but if not I would really feel unsafe using an ATM running
Windows as its backend.

Nov 22, 2004, 5:08pm

[View Quote] I was under the impression that the US president makes barely above
$50,000 USD.

Nov 22, 2004, 5:10pm

[View Quote] Maybe, or maybe not. It's not the internet it goes through. While this
is much more safe, it still does not warrent any trust whatsoever. Any
network with a windows computer hooked into (and no proper admin)
usually leads to chaos.

Nov 27, 2004, 4:56pm

[View Quote] You're pretty much out of luck for finding a video card like that. Your
best bet is to go to your mom and get her to buy the PSU.

As long as you're not using a prebuilt system by compaq or the likes,
the PSU should work just fine. They use specially designed PSU that are
smaller; Dell does not seem to do this though.

Dec 4, 2004, 2:42am

[View Quote] I would make sure your motherboard supports PCI-E. It most likely doesn't.

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