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    Anyone RMA'ed Crucial Ballistix recently?

    If Crucial still sell the modules you are RMA'ing, then most likely they'll replace them with the same.. However I tried to RMA some Ballistix DDR1 500Mhz modules about a year ago.. since they didn't sell them anymore, they wanted to replace the 2 1GB 500Mhz modules with 2 400Mhz standard...
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    HD 2900xt 2gig (thats right, TWO)

    I'd wonder if anything over 1GB at this point is worth it. Do any of these users of these apps actually use textures? I thought most things were mostly wireframe or shaded? Although I have been wrong before... ;)
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    HD 2900xt 2gig (thats right, TWO)

    Well look at that... I was wrong :)
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    HD 2900xt 2gig (thats right, TWO)

    If I'm not mistaken.. the 512MB/1GB/2GB of ram on a video card isn't counted towards system memory, and what a 32/64 bit OS "appoints" to applications... (unless of course it's shared.. but that's not what we're talking about here is it)..
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    HD 2900xt 2gig (thats right, TWO)

    Who am I? Look to the left... You sure can voice any opinion you have!! And I reserve the right to point out that your opinion was completely rubbish.. Make myself look stupid? No.. that's what you did... Thanks! I'm having a great weekend!
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    HD 2900xt 2gig (thats right, TWO)

    Justageek, you should've really stopped after your first comment... ATI are bringing out FireGL cards based on the 2000 series GPU's.. (much like they have with nearly every other Radeon chip in the last 3-4 years).. who or why someone would need it? I could see a lot of use for these...
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    External Graphics Solution for Laptop

    This is one MSI is bringing out?? http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41876
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    Question about using a HD2600XT as a PPU in Crossfire

    I wouldn't bother buying a graphics card to do physics rendering... it's been announced but never released.. probably never will... and by the time it does, they'll probably say you'll need something better than a 2600XT..
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    OpenGL Fur Benchmark

    What video card do you have?
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    OpenGL Fur Benchmark

    326 on an Athlon64 X2 4600 + ATI X1600 Pro (WinXP) 2470 on an Athlon64 3500 + ATI HD2900XT (Vista 64-bit) (oooh I beat all the 8800 series GPU's so far) :)
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    PCI Graphics over Onboard graphics?

    This card wouldn't be too bad (based on the X1550) http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814103031
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    PCI Graphics over Onboard graphics?

    Please tell me where you can get a HD2400 in PCI format (note: NOT PCI-E)
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    What can my laptop play?

    Solitaire?
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    Best 2D Videocard?

    Even the slowest 3D card is very quick in 2D.. If you're just after 2D, then the HD2400 or lowest end Nvidia card would be fine (read: anything below $100).. If you're after Vista Aero performance... look elsewhere... that's 3D and you'll need a decent 3D card for that..
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    Sapphire Customer Support, Does it exists??

    *cough*.. I'm sorry... $15?? I have to pay them $15 to warrant my card??? Oh I'm sorry... last time I purchase a Sapphire card then...
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    Sapphire 1950Pro, issues with monitor?

    If you're just posting the board, I don't see why the 1950 would be pulling it's max power anyway.. more likely a fraction of it... You've probably fried something... either the video card or mainboard... No beeps or anything?
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    2900XT CrossFire

    I've been running a 2900XT in Vista 64-bit for a while now (got it about a week after it was released)... haven't had any major (or minor for that matter) problems with it..
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    Looking for a Card

    Don't know about XP 64-bit, but ATI's drivers for Vista 64-bit are fine... I'd say go with the 1950...unless HDDVD/B-Ray playback is his thing...
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    How Do I Overclock My Video Card? I've Never Done It

    You can use Newegg...
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    hd 2900xt wierd problem. Need help pls!

    Sounds like motherboard to me... but without another PCI-E card to verify you can't be sure if it's the video card or motherboard.. (Yes a PCI card will get it to work, but it's not exactly an apples-apples comparison)..
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    nvidia woes..

    I'd suggest memory.. It's more likely his ram is defective than a defective 6150... (and as for the "Onboard chips can develop problems. They are really cheaply made, and quality isn't terribly good on the things".. where the hell did you make that up from? Their quality is just as good as...
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    Can I use speaker wire to repair a socket 939 processor?

    How about breaking off a pin from a SIPP module? (if you could find one)... that should be about the right size (and pretty tough).. Just sounds like a pain to solder it on..
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    Pentium D 2.8Ghz vs Macbook Core Duo 2.0Ghz

    I'm not sure how you'd go about comparing a PC to a Mac (bit of an apples and oranges comparison).. but at a guess I'd say the Core Duo 2.0Ghz would be slight ahead on the Pentium D... Although the Core Duo isn't 64-bit either.. depends on what you want it for really..??
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    ATi Driver 7.7 - Can't Install In Safe Mode

    What kind of ATI card do you have?
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    "AGP Aperture" & "UMA Frame Buffer"

    Set the UMA frame buffer to the lowest setting (if you're not using it.. and it'll probably deactivate anyway when you plug in a PCI graphics card... does Windows report the correct amount of RAM? If so, then it's disabled).. AGP aperture size shouldn't make any difference, as you're running...
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    Vista x64 won't boot when I install the Nvidia 64-bit drivers

    Sounds like maybe the video driver is forcing the video card into a resolution/refresh rate your monitor can't handle?? (maybe??) Sorry can't be more of a help.. running a 2900XT here in Vista 64-bit and haven't had any problems :(
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    Setting up 3 monitors: PCIe + PCI video card problems

    Is the 9250 detected correctly? I seem to recall that the 9250 uses an older driver than the X1950 Pro (ATI dropped support for it in the latest drivers).. That could possibly be why it's so slow? (Catalyst 6.11 looks like the latest driver with support for the 9250, whereas the X1950 Pro can...
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    2900XT arrived

    36A on the 12v rails? Damn! I think my power supply is overkill then! I've got 720W on the 12v rails (18A x 6). Works fine for the 2900XT :)
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    Sapphire HD 2600XT GDDR3

    No errors here so far on a 2900XT..
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    Mouse lag on new video card and monitor

    Are you running at the same resolution as on the CRT?
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    Mobility Radeon x2300 and H264

    I didn't think there *was* a HD2300... there's a HD2400 and HD2600?? At least there's not a 2300 based off the same core(s) as the 2400/2600/2900
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    x1950 Pro useless for HD-DVD playback??

    You better tell ATI to update their page for the X1950 then: Avivo? Video and Display Platform * High performance programmable video processor o Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding Of course I'm sure it doesn't...
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    x1950 Pro useless for HD-DVD playback??

    The specs for the card says it accelerates both H.264 and VC1... What software player are you using? Whats the specs of the rest of your PC?
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    2600XT's are available finally

    Can't find a comparison of the X1950 and the 2600XT at the moment.. but the HDDVD/Bluray playback and lower power consumption are two things that come to mind..
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    You choose 7950GT or X1950 Pro

    Bit late to ask.. but the 2600XT is about that price? (although I'm not sure how it stacks up against a X1950 XT, probably worse)...
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    Crysis is coming

    What does that prove exactly? That Crysis is coming to Windows XP? I thought that was known quite a while ago?
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    2600XT's are available finally

    Yeah I bought a 2900XT a week after they came out... But I wouldn't mind one of these for one of my other PC's..
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    Best card for 3D Animation?

    Neither of them help with 3d animation do they? (I'm sure they help with the pre-viz work in the editor, but as far as final rendering of the images is concerned, I don't think the video cards help at all..?)
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    2600XT's are available finally

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102102 A couple of those in crossfire wouldn't be too bad..
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    Nvidia too thick to implement virtualised graphics memory.

    Without knowing either the exact DirectX10 spec, or how to write drivers in Vista, I think you're getting the "DirectX 10 specification" and "Vista driver model" incorrectly mixed together.. I believe what the Inquirer was trying to say was, without the virtual graphics address space, the...