Recent content by blues02

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    When the HELL is Nvidia going to release working drivers for Vista?

    I was an early adopter for Win95. That taught me my lesson.
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    Problem hooking X800GTO to Olevia 32" LCD

    Hello. I have a 32" 720p LCD TV with HDMI & VGA. I hooked my PC up to the TV via VGA and it displays good, the 1360x768 native resolution works fine, but the text can bet a bit blurry. So I buy a HDMI-DVI cable to run the signal. It has problems. When it gets to Windows and switches to...
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    Damn. At this point I may as well hold off and buy a PCI-e rig instead of doing all this upgrading to a dead platform for one last video upgrade. Oh well thems the breaks. Thanks for the info.
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    Is a PSU with 28a on the 12 volt rail going to be enough for this card? Here is my supply Athena Power AP-P4ATX50F12 ATX12V 500W Power Supply
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    How is www.allstarshop.com? I've never heard of them before. They seem to have the memory and chip clocks reversed or something though. 580Mhz Memory and 1400Mhz engine clock? I'm guessing the chip is really 580 and the memory is 1400Mhz?
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    Would i notice much of a difference going from a 9800XT to an X800 AGP?

    I upgraded from a PNY 6600GT to a Sapphire X800GTO (Which is OC'ed and has 16 pipes unlocked) and the X800 is noticeably faster at higher resolutions (over 1024x768) and with AA due to the 256 vs 128 bit memory bus I think, and the 16 pipes(12 standard) vs 8 probably helps too. It's just a...
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    Thanks for the tips. I think waiting for the X1950Pro is the best bet. I just wish it would come out so I can finally play Oblivion at a decent rate.
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    So how much faster should this card be than a 7800GS AGP? The thing is I do my gaming for the most part in Windows XP, but everything else in Ubuntu Linux. ATI's drivers and performance is crap compared to Nvidia in Linux however. For example my Athlon XP 2200+ with a 6600GT card beats my...
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    Thanks for the tips, I didn't know that there was a bridge from ATA to SATA. Though if there are problems with Linux compatability that would be a problem since I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on my desktop here.
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    X1950 Pro AGP is coming!

    Man I wish I could get my hands on one of these now. My problem is that if I buy a new PCI-e MB I have to get rid of one of my HD's and Optical drives most likely as all the MB's I see have only 1 ATA controller for 2 devices, where I have 4 now. Add in new memory, new CPU, new video, and I...
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    How much of an upgrade is the 6800GS over 6600GT

    Looks like from what I'm reading you can unlock the extra pipes on the AGP 6800GS pretty easily. I think that seals it. A 16 pipe 256bit with 256MB card should be a nice upgrade over my 8 pipe 128bit bus card.
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    How much of an upgrade is the 6800GS over 6600GT

    That X850XT is PCI-e.
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    How much of an upgrade is the 6800GS over 6600GT

    Yeah, I just started out with the OC'ing, I plan on ratching it up more and more as it proves it's stability at new speeds. Plus from what I've read it's easy to unlock the AGP version of the 6800GS to 16 pipes. Would you fine folks think I'd be better off with the 7800GS?
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    How much of an upgrade is the 6800GS over 6600GT

    I realize the 6800GS is a faster chip with more pipes than the 6600GT, but my question is just how much of an upgrade is that over the card I have now? I'm using the PNY 6600GT AGP. The 7800GS is probably out due to the lack of punch over the 6800GS to justify spending a hundred dollars more...
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    ** Official EPoX 9NDA3+ Thread ** S939

    ok, I just got one of these yesterday and I have a problem. I installed my other components and installed windows. When I installed the chipset drivers it rebooted the system. Now it boots to a dos screen with three options, to make floppies for the RAID or to boot to a command prompt. I...