New Video Card

I was thinking about buying a 9700 pro but you know you're right, I want to stick with nvidia. They need more customer loyalty right now anyhow.

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I don't think I'm a fan boy.
I've switched camps a few times. I have had 3Dfx cards, Nvidia cards and ATi cards.
I still think the Radeon 8500 BBA retail box was the best out of them all.

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I'm not looking forward to a reformat and reinstall.
It just takes too bloody long. And the wife gets really pissed off when I do it cause I'm sitting in front of the computer for two days tweaking it. Literally two days.

I had no problem going from ATi to Nvidia. But it seems to be a lot more complicated going from Nvidia to ATi.

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I don't know. I just figure it's less hastle doing a clean install than getting pissed off at the computer because of some stupid driver issue. I did a clean install going from 3dfx to Nvidia. I've done a clean install going from Nvidia to 3dfx. I just figure it's less trouble. I've read the threads here and everyone says the same thing: Do a clean install.

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Turn on the AA and turn on the Anisotropic Filtering. That card can handle it. I didn't play around with it too much, but you can either let the game pick it or you can force each game to use it in the control panel. Start conservative if you want and see how it does. I've read in some places that you might as well just always leave it on rather than letting the game choose, but I don't have very much experience with it since my brother lives kinda far from me.

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I'm not saying you're a fanboy, but Kyle of [H] and a lot of others are like, either, "Ati Ati Ati!", or "Nvidia Nvidia Nvidia!", which pisses the [-peep-] out of me. Then again, we hear "AMD AMD AMD!", or "Intel Intel Intel" all the time as well, which is just as irritating. I mean, both companies have solid products, it's just a matter of which technology that has solid experience is really worth buying. I'll agree, the 8500 was a good product.

Instead of Rdram, why not just merge 4 Sdram channels...

I just bought another 200GB drive and I've already filled up over half of it. I think I've had it for a little under 2 weeks.

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How many mp3 do you have?
Watch out you could be on the RIAA hit list.

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For X-mas I got a digital camera. I haven't taken that many pictures but I still have almost a GB. I plan on taking a lot more now that I have a bigger memory card and I'll be moving.

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Simple: Sharereactor.com

You need an www.edonkey2000.com client.

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I was guessing you might do either digital photography or video capture with an Ati AIW card or something like that. I have no idea how you can honestly have a whole gb of pictures though.

I want to see an <font color=blue>Ati Radeon 99999 Ultra Pro</font color=blue>, based on the <font color=red>AtiRage core</font color=red>. And people wonder how a <font color=purple>Geforce3</font color=purple> is better than a <font color=orange>Geforce4 Mx...</font color=orange>

It's not really that hard. I have a 64MB and a 16MB card. So graduation was about 100MB a day. That's roughly 150MB after getting rid of the crap for both me and my wife (ex). A trip to the zoo is about 64MB after getting rid of the bad pics. X-mas, birthday's, it's not that hard to add up to a gig or so. I'm a bit short of a gig still.

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I think it's great that he's posting. His post about some basic rules was mostly caused by Williamette_Sucks by the looks of things. He deleted his post about Forum Bill of Rights and Fredi warned him that he needs to stop calling people names from what I understand.

Tom has been frustrated by the whole thing and all the name calling between websites. He doesn't sound to interested in writing articles right now. I think he sees his chance to pool our thoughts and ideas into getting better benchmarks and reviews out for GFX cards. Lets face it, right now there is pretty much nothing to judge a card by without thinking in the back of your mind, "Did they cheat and am I getting what I paid for?"

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Good points.

Although we do get carried away in the other section. I'm really surprised Fredi has not posted a warning about the excessively graphic sexual innuendo that gets spread throughout the Other section.
I know I take my fair share in this type of posting. But sometimes I do feel that it is taken a bit too far.

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You'll pretty much only see me get angry and irritated when anti-semitism, prejudice, racism, and other kinds of degratory remarks are made. The sexual stuff is funny and is no different than any other conversation we all have during the day. With exception to Wingding and Rob of course. But hey...they're family.

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Refering to your main post now:
-Is your card now working stably?
-Are you satisfied with the performance increase?
I've not read clearly if you felt a difference, though you should be normally.

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If a company is doing so well now, and a majority of people opts for its products, are they fanboys?
I mean, if currently Intel is winning and a lot of its products are now excellently priced (P4 2.4GHZ with HT and 800MT, or P4 2.8GHZ with HT and 800MT being cheaper than the XP3200) and people consider Intel more (say 75% in a poll), why the hell should you have such prejudiced thoughts by calling them fanboys?!

Sorry if I sound angry, but such premature accusations really turn me off.

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Oh yes I don't trust Kyle, I know he is an idiot.
But a poll generally now, would indeed reveal Intel and ATi as choices around the web.

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I think they did make good cards. They're gonna have to seriously get their engineers and marketing department on track again if they hope to do so again.

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Their Nforce2 chipset is great, and I wouldn't worry about them going under. They're just gonna have to release another card without all the BS before they clean up their name in the GFX market.

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I can't help you there. I used to be the same way but I find it much easier to have a clean and compact C:\

If you get it down to the bare minimum, do an image of it, and something goes wrong--you're up and running damn quick.

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because they are the only thing standing in the way of ATI cheating you. and they aren't cheating you think of it this way:
Nvidia was very late getting the fx gpus out due to complications in their design and the manufacturing process. We are at the point where companies have to take their products through a die shrink every few months just for a few extra mhz and this is very hard to do, not only did they go through a die shrink but they switched manufacturers! This costs time and money, a lot of things have gone wrong with this release and many of them could not have been forseen by nvidia and were simply bad luck. Nvidia may still look like a healthy company but they are not- remember all the releases of detenators that used to be common? I remember a time when they were shooting out a new version every 2 weeks. Now when was the last driver release? may? why would a company so good at driver releases be so behind in them? because they are not doing well financially. They had to cut back on the support and drivers and are releasing so many versions as their product in a desperate move to get them sold. 3dfx seemed like a healthy company till the day we all went looking for new drivers and saw the horrorible news. The 3dmark thing and everything else has been capitolized on by ati and its loyal customers creating terrible plublicity for nvidia which up till this release has provided outstanding products and support. Give them the benifit of the doubt, they are in trouble, and now when they need their customers the most where are they? I don't want you to go out and buy a geforce fx, I want you to think about all the bitching you have been doing and ask yourself if it is deserved or not that's all.

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I stood up to that while reading, played the national anthem, and saluted.
hehe.
I'm wondering what's the dilio w/ NV and IBM, I mean talking to one of the scientists there who worked with em in making new chip designs, looks like some big shizz was going down.


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Although your post is well thought out, I think it's a bit more than just one card that is the problem. First they gave a sneak peak of the NV30. I remember getting really excited about that thing. It was basically gods gift to gamers. 6 months or so later they finally release it, although it's not what they said it was. It blows. That of course was a paper release though and getting a 5800U was impossible and it took months before people got a hold of the 5800. Driver releases stopped in November of last year. It took them 6+ months to release anything new. Then comes the NV35. Along with it the cheating. And have you seen the instability and problems people are having with all these cards? Worst of all is the interviews in which Nvidia basically told us that this is what we needed and that they foresaw the future being like this: Noisy, large cards, that they consider innovative. That's complete bullshit.

I'm not going to "be there for them". I'm going to be there for whoever releases a good card and doesn't play people like fools. Hopefully they will improve their act though, but if they go under I'm sure someone will fill the void.

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