AGP video cards for giveaway/cheap sale? :P

[Viperoni]

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<< Well when I had my SB Live Value in my comp (I have a intel pro100+ nic, diamond fireport 40 dually SCSI card, now a rhythmic edge), I never had any trouble with it in either win2k or winme....

Also with my Radeon, I never had any trouble in games at all, CS, CMR2, etc etc. >>



I bet you were using an Intel chispet though >>



Kt7-raid

Never a single problem, actually the SB Live is now in my other BX chipset comp, and it wont take any drivers in win2k (keeps on asking me for new ones upon booting)......

Anyhow, I love my rhythmic edge, at least that was a good upgrade over the crappy live.

 

[Scott1]

MustPost,

you can get internal hardware modems for around $20-$30, and the external veriaty for around $5-$15 more. Check pricewatch, your pricing info on hardware modems is grossly out of date.

Winmodems may have gotten more reliable, but there are plenty of people who have problems with them (ex. people who use slower computers, those who use their older computers as router/gateway boxes, those who use non-Windows/non-MacOS oses; I could make a list).

RSI,

Try some things, first, before you start replacing hardware:

• Make sure your drivers are up to date.

• Make sure your OS and apps are up to date, and at least apply the security/bugfix updates.

• Check your system settings, and fix any device conficts and incorrect settings. IRQ and IO address conflicts can really slow your system down, and enabling DMA on devices that can use it will increase your system's proformance.

• The only other thing I can think of is that your system is running out of memory. Is it swapping to disk often? If so, then your money is better spent on more ram.

 

[RSI]

<< no offense, but how many games did you play using an ISA video card, if you ever had one, that even showed its fps, not many I would guess. I dought you ever had a ISA video card that needed nearly as much bandwith as a banshee. >>

I had a Cirrus Logic 1MB. Kept messing up in 256 colour dos games. What a PITA.

I know the banshee requires much more bandwidth NO KIDDING! That wasn't my point. The point is I've had the banshee for 3-4 years and never had any problems of any sort and it was fast all the time (hey, 640x480 was the shiznit!). Never had sound, video or modem problems. I had ISA sound and modem. Now I have everything on the PCI bus and it's too much. It's a pain in the behind!

-RSI

 

[RSI]

<< MustPost,

you can get internal hardware modems for around $20-$30, and the external veriaty for around $5-$15 more. Check pricewatch, your pricing info on hardware modems is grossly out of date.

Winmodems may have gotten more reliable, but there are plenty of people who have problems with them (ex. people who use slower computers, those who use their older computers as router/gateway boxes, those who use non-Windows/non-MacOS oses; I could make a list).

RSI,

Try some things, first, before you start replacing hardware:

• Make sure your drivers are up to date.

• Make sure your OS and apps are up to date, and at least apply the security/bugfix updates.

• Check your system settings, and fix any device conficts and incorrect settings. IRQ and IO address conflicts can really slow your system down, and enabling DMA on devices that can use it will increase your system's proformance.

• The only other thing I can think of is that your system is running out of memory. Is it swapping to disk often? If so, then your money is better spent on more ram.

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Trust me, I've thought of all that.

All my drivers are up to date, all the bug fixes and patches have been tried, searched left and right for any motherboard chipset updates, etc. I'm sure there are no resource conflicts. When I set up win2k everything detects and installs without a problem. It has drivers for all my devices. I do use my own proper drivers though.

-RSI