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Re: Advice on purchasing a gaming videocard

Posted on 2013-02-27, 07:54

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Honestly. I don't wanna sound lame. AMD cards are great and powerful but I want an nVidia just for the sake of change. Well I do understand perfectly, I'm changing every generation, :D Thing is, this is the worst time to go nvidia, where previous gen they were very good with the GTX5XX. BigBod : …

Re: Advice on purchasing a gaming videocard

Posted on 2013-02-26, 20:43

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Mainly because drivers are not bug-free. In fact they have some regressions. For instance GPU Caps Viewer says my Radeon card supports OpenGL 3.3 but most OpenGL 3.x tests fail with an unknown error. I tested it on a GF 9 that I have at work and every OpenGL test worked properly. EDIT: Funny. Those …

Re: Advice on purchasing a gaming videocard

Posted on 2013-02-25, 20:35

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I am still using regular HDDs. My current chipset doesn't even support AHCI well. But we are derrailing the main tread. Let's discuss about gaming videocards. :happyhappy: Sorry yes, back to the topic at hand ;) I did setup my brothers Lanbox gaming maching with an nViidia 550 GTX as it was compact …

Re: Advice on purchasing a gaming videocard

Posted on 2013-02-25, 20:17

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@F2bnp: Thanks mate! I hope it works first. @BigBodZod: Yep, older memory is more expensive. I think DDR4 will be around here this year or so; I am thinking in getting any Intel microprocessor capable of driving DDR4. I have an i7 2700K at work and I am quite satisfied with its performance so far. …

Re: Advice on purchasing a gaming videocard

Posted on 2013-02-25, 19:43

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@Malik, some of us like all the eye candy but you are correct. Most mainstrain GPU's can do quite well in even current games if you sacrafice some of this and especially shadows to increase the FPS rate. But if your budget can afford it then get the fastest CPU + GPU you can find. One thing that is …

Re: question about XP licensing

Posted on 2013-02-24, 20:42

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All this is EXACTLY why I stayed away from XP as long as I could I totally get that and it's too bad as XP, both 32-bit and 64-bit are great OS's for a lot of general uses including gaming. I would rather keep using Win 2K Pro however as I prefer how much less of a footprint it has but it is …

Re: Advice on purchasing a gaming videocard

Posted on 2013-02-24, 20:37

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I currently use an AMD FX-8350 CPU + an HD 7970 GPU along with an Antec Quad-Rail 1000 Watt PSU. You can get by with a smaller PSU of course but here is what I have found. The chassis matters, especially when using higher end components that tend to ouput more heat. I currently have everything …

Re: amiga

Posted on 2013-02-23, 23:43

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I still own working Amiga's: A500 = 3 of them, one is a hanger queen A3000 = 1 A4000 = 1 Solld my A2000 like a dummy and never got around to owning the A600 nor the A1200. Still have a couple of working C64's and a C128 too.

Re: 5.25" floppy

Posted on 2013-02-20, 06:02

If you want to read GCR diskette's then get the Catweasal interface card from Individual Computers. ISA Version: http://www.jschoenfeld.com/home/indexe.htm PCI Version: http://www.jschoenfeld.com/home/indexe.htm I think I still have my old ISA card stored away, been looking to get one of the PCI …

Re: MASSIVE Steam Update: Trashed HL1 and CS16 !

Posted on 2013-02-17, 23:14

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It's enough to make Richard Stallman's skin crawl , and he has more devoted religious followers than Steve Jobs ever did. Well he is mentioning Freedom in gaming rather then Free in the cost of games. I do not see an issue here with using Steam on Linux as a digital distribution platform. I can …

Re: Dune PC vs Dune Amiga

Posted on 2013-01-28, 22:03

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Dune I still prefer on the Amiga to the PC but both are great versions in their own right. There is nothing like listening to some music on an Amiga piped through an old Marantz Tube Amp :happyhappy: Just wished I had kept that amp instead of recycling the old thing :( Now I see things like Vinyl …

Re: Are there still PC games that we can't run?

Posted on 2013-01-13, 02:46

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Which begs the question: why flightsims? What's in their programming that cause problems with modern hardware? Even arcade flightsim like Crimson Skies has problem with nVidia's CSAA - namely, the menu freezes. On Radeons, it doesn't do any better either. The airplanes become black silhouette when …

Re: Floppy label removal

Posted on 2012-12-28, 19:08

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You can use a blow dryer/hair dryer to do this you have to be somewhat patient in that it only take a few seconds of heat, if even that, of going back and forth over the entire label on the diskette. You can usually peel away the label and see that only a bit of the adhesive is left. This is where I …

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