I wonder what would happen if I did this?

[Rudy Toody]

I discovered that I could change the screen resolution to a value well above the capabilities of the video card.

For two days it ran fine at 1280 x 1024, which is above the 800 x 600 maximum.

It just died!

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL!

Poor card - it got the hots for the high resolution!

I have to try this in my office!

 

[Pokey]

Sorry about your misfortune.................but that is like giving Pokey a Red Bull or Pepsi Max.................

 

[Insidious]

Out in a blaze of glory

I want to go that way..... I guess the 'Sid equivalent' would be an 18 year old amazon queen

WAAAAaaaay beyond the spec'd capabilities of the Sidzter

:laugh:

 

[petrusbroder]

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Insidious
Out in a blaze of glory

I want to go that way..... I guess the 'Sid equivalent' would be an 18 year old amazon queen

WAAAAaaaay beyond the spec'd capabilities of the Sidzter

:laugh:

"When my time comes, I want to die like my grandfather did: quietly and in his sleep. Not kicking and screaming like the passengers in his car."

:laugh:

-jim

 

[GLeeM]

You guys are too funny

I had to LOLQ (Q=quietly) or my wife would think me crazy - again!

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: caferace

Originally posted by: Insidious
Out in a blaze of glory

I want to go that way..... I guess the 'Sid equivalent' would be an 18 year old amazon queen

WAAAAaaaay beyond the spec'd capabilities of the Sidzter

:laugh:

"When my time comes, I want to die like my grandfather did: quietly and in his sleep. Not kicking and screaming like the passengers in his car."

:laugh:

-jim

lol

Rudy
What card was it?

Btw I 'overclock' my CRT monitor!:Q ,my Hansol 900P max rating is 1600x1200 @70Hz ,trouble is I'm very sensitive to flashing/strobing on lights/screens & I can see 70Hz flicker ,so using Powerstrip I've o/ced it to 75Hz ,no more flickering .Btw that res is only for games ,desktop res is much lower.So far no probs.....

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Rudy
What card was it?

It was an old ATI based Diamond that I used as a temp whenever another card had to be RMA-ed. It had 16MB of ram!!!

Under Windows XP, it would scroll soooooo slowly! Under Linux (and the resolution hike) it was pretty zippy. I thought I had found a way to get superior performance out of a $50 card.

I ordered a replacement from Newegg that I should get later this week. I moved up. This is a $100 card.

I don't play games, so I don't need much. However, one box has an ATI x1900 AIW which is nice.

I think my box is still crunching Sudoku, every once in a while the disk light blinks. And, I can still reach the data over the LAN.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: caferace

Originally posted by: Insidious
Out in a blaze of glory

I want to go that way..... I guess the 'Sid equivalent' would be an 18 year old amazon queen

WAAAAaaaay beyond the spec'd capabilities of the Sidzter

:laugh:

"When my time comes, I want to die like my grandfather did: quietly and in his sleep. Not kicking and screaming like the passengers in his car."

:laugh:

-jim

ROFLMAO

my wife and daughters think I'm nuts. thanks jim!

 

[PeterN]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Btw I 'overclock' my CRT monitor!:Q

How much wu does it crunch????
Is it any good for Folding??? j/k

 

[Wiz]

Heck, Newegg has some Nvidia 6800gt 256MB cards for $50 these days!
I paid $100 for my AGP X1650 512MB - nice card btw!

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: PeterN

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Btw I 'overclock' my CRT monitor!:Q

How much wu does it crunch????
Is it any good for Folding??? j/k

lol

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: PeterN

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Btw I 'overclock' my CRT monitor!:Q

How much wu does it crunch????
Is it any good for Folding??? j/k

lol

I did that once, years ago. I fried the CRT.

The weirdest thing about it was that it happened on the same day that SETI found a suspected alien signal!

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: caferace

Originally posted by: Insidious
Out in a blaze of glory

I want to go that way..... I guess the 'Sid equivalent' would be an 18 year old amazon queen

WAAAAaaaay beyond the spec'd capabilities of the Sidzter

:laugh:

"When my time comes, I want to die like my grandfather did: quietly and in his sleep. Not kicking and screaming like the passengers in his car."

:laugh:

-jim

lol. good one! :thumbsup:

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: PeterN

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Btw I 'overclock' my CRT monitor!:Q

How much wu does it crunch????
Is it any good for Folding??? j/k

lol

I did that once, years ago. I fried the CRT.

The weirdest thing about it was that it happened on the same day that SETI found a suspected alien signal!

lol! &:Q

How far over max was the refresh rate?

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: PeterN

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Btw I 'overclock' my CRT monitor!:Q

How much wu does it crunch????
Is it any good for Folding??? j/k

lol

I did that once, years ago. I fried the CRT.

The weirdest thing about it was that it happened on the same day that SETI found a suspected alien signal!

lol! &:Q

How far over max was the refresh rate?

I was pushing to reach 50% over max, when it suddenly produced a terrific light show-- a kaleidoscope of colors dancing around the screen. It lasted for a few minutes, long enough to get some of the other programmers into my cubicle to watch it.

Then the screen went black and my cubicle filled with black, acrid smoke. It was a well spent $550.

 

[Insidious]

I'm a electronic hardware design engineer.

Nothing makes my day better than when one of my buds sticks their nose around the corner with that.... "jeeze that stinks" look on their face.

I try VERY hard not to take my work home. :roll:

-Sid

 

[Assimilator1]

lol

Well I'm only pushing mine a little less than 10% so hopefully it'll be ok for sometime......

 

[Insidious]

Do you notice anything uncomfortable when you use an LCD?

 

[Assimilator1]

You mean flickering/strobing? no none ,even though they are only at 60Hz ,I'm assuming (maybe vaguely remembering?) that the whole screen is refreshed at once on an LDC rather than being drawn from top to bottom(CRT)???

 

[Insidious]

When I got my first LCD I was sooooo pissed that it had to use 60Hz refresh....
Then I realized it didn't seem to be visable (ignorance can be an embarrassing thing) I think you must be right. I remember that someone wrote since the backlight doesn't change and only the crystals do, that is why flicker doesn't seem to be present.

So have you got one picked out for when that puppy of yours explodes?

-Sid

 

[Assimilator1]

Makes sense what you say ,I should read up about it

No I don't have one picked out ,I'm not couting on it blowing up soon ,it's only in games the refresh rate is o/ced (for 1600x1200) ,my desktop is set to 1152x864 & the refresh is in spec their.:thumbsup:
I'm hoping it'll last long enough to the point where OLED screens are common place & much cheaper