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I'm looking to get a new Alienware Computer, what graphics card should I choose? - Page 3

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November 3, 2013 1:40:55 AM

like I said before, too, I have Optical Drives already, I have like 3 or 4 of them with this computer I'm on and a computer my parents are giving me, so I don't need Optical Drives... Now I just have to convince people to help me build this system... I put it up on my Brother-in-law's Website in our family's X-mas Wishlist section... so hopefully people will buy the parts... but I may have to fund it myself, but that'll be hard since my Wife is the only one who works right now and we are in the process of moving...
November 3, 2013 1:47:20 AM

ooohooohoohohohoohohohohohohoh I know 1 thing I will want other than the drives I'm on if it's compatible with Win7, I still have some oldschool 3.5" floppies... Should I go with an external or will this setup have one internally that will work?
a b U Graphics card
November 3, 2013 4:50:05 AM

You don't need to change your build anymore, what you have picked out is fine. Building is easy, so if you get help from someone I don't think you'll have too many issues. Floppy drives are compatible with Windows 7, but approximately 0.001% (exaggeration) of modern motherboards support it. You'd be better off just buying a $15 external floppy drive. If the reason you want it is to play old school games, you are either going to need to install a small Windows 98 partition or install DOSBox. Old school games are usually 8 bit, which is no longer natively supported in Windows (VIsta and above I believe).
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November 3, 2013 10:09:06 AM

yeah, nah, my disks have just photos and files... It'll be like a time capsule looking at the disks... Plus I bought a camera, for work when I was a Repo man, I thought it was just a tiny little digital camera with a Floppy with the drivers on it to load onto the computer but it turns out the floppy drive is what it actually SAVES on... lol!
a b U Graphics card
November 3, 2013 7:59:23 PM

Excellent. :)  I remember playing those old DOS games as a kid, don't remember too many of them unfortunately. Anywho, I'd just use an external floppy and you can transfer all those photos to a flash drive or your HDD.
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