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The i740 was hardly a failure. Wasn't it one of the most popular cards of it's day? I remember it punching well above its weight, especially cost-wise. An x86 CPU is a far more complexed beast than a GPU. Do you remember XGi with the Voltari? Their products were pretty much competitive...

Hi all, Does anyone know of a method to decrease the average running speeds of a GeForce 8800GTS? (Foxconn) My system runs quite hot at the moment, all due to the extra heat being output by the 8800GTS on automatic fan speed. Is there any way to set the minimum fan speed to say.. 75%...

Bit of a ****** lifespan for a graphics card :S Only a couple of years old. Even hard drives outlast that. My old geforce2 is still alive and doing just fine after 5 years? Ah well. I've ordered an XFX 7600GT AGP - was considering going PCIe but really can't afford the downtime of a...

Here's the story: My radeon 9800pro caused some issues with my older motherboard (VIA chipset), but upon moving to an nforce board with my Athlon64, I've had absolutely no issues with it whatsoever (9800pro that is) for the last year - not even a single VPU reset. I got back from a LAN party...

The entry level model doesn't come in black :( Intel GMA950 :( The MacBook has lost a large amount of its appeal to me due to those two. I could settle for the entry level model in black though, even with the integrated graphics...

Finally got mine. Banding problems :( Two dead pixels on one... black on red, which is kinda obvious sometimes. VGA also has banding, it's just very minimal. Do any of you notice that the banding literally disappears if you hover a window over it and quickly move it away? Then it...

This really is turning into a very strange problem. The LG and Apple models with the same (or a similar) panel are reporting the same problems, which indicates that it probably ISN'T Dell's circuitry, and instead a panel problem, while so is the 2007FP Rev2 with the SAMSUNG panel, which puts...

Any developments on this? Things seem to have gone quiet in the last few days..

Apparently there's a worldwide shortage. Or at least thats what I was told when I enquired. Mine were meant to arrive a couple of weeks ago, now they are arriving on Friday. *sigh* They'd better have fixed the problem...

Use a 'magic wand' tool in any image editor with a colour tolerance of zero, and you'll see where the dithering comes into play :)

Alright, I've updated my test chart. It should be about twice as tough now. It wasn't designed to test the same things as gradlin in the first place, but it will now. The new location: http://www.spronkey.com/sdc-gradients.png and http://www.spronkey.com/sdc-gradients.tif The top...

If those pictures were screenshots, i'm now concerned about the gradlin program (if that's what you used), because there is clear banding in them that shouldn't be there. Unless you compressed them too much but it was vertical banding and JPEG from memory ... o_O Hmm.

First, cmge - are those actual photos? (if so, what on earth amazing camera do you have !?!??!?!) If so, that looks like some severe banding. The dell is definitely worse, but the samsung doesn't seem to be doing very well either :S If not you'll need to take photos of the screen and not...

No offense josh, but are you a tard or something? Recalls aren't initiated by people returning monitors - they're initiated by lots of people explicitly telling the company who produced the item that there is a problem. I'll bet most of the people here who returned their 2007wfp's didn't...

It would be interesting to see if this occurs on different operating systems too.. Anyone running non ATi/nVidia got one of these? Maybe an Intel Express notebook? Also, try adjusting timing settings slightly. E.g. refresh rate tweaking (60.1, 60.2 kinda stuff) with powerstrip or similar...