During shipping from school, my desktop's video card arrived dead... booted it and it just pixelated everything and it definately seems shot.
My card also was AGP.
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I have three decisions I see fit to present here.
(1) Buy a new AGP card and keep on trucking
(2) Sell the system (scrap for parts) and move on to a new frontier with PCI-E and better parts.
(3) I just bought a Gateway CX210X Convertiable Notebook (Tablet Style), with Chassis w/ ATI Mobility? Radeon® X1400 64MB Graphics (up to 256MB HyperMemory) and Intel® Core? 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2.00GHz, 667MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache), and 4gb ram 80gb 7200rpm harddrive. And just use this as my primary machine.
What do I use the comp for?
I use to be a much more hardcore gamer, but it's dropped off lately with being busy, school, etc. But that doesn't mean I still don't like to game. Games I play when I can are like Battlefield 2, and I see myself going into some of the newer games coming out maybe like Starcraft 2, etc.
I mean I probably could put together a budget of $1k plus the scrap from the old pc.
I also travel a lot in the summer, which is why I have such a powerful notebook that is capable of gaming, and doing a lot of other such things. I also do a small amount of video encoding, but that may pick up when I pick up a new video camera to bring along with me for home movies and when I fly at times.
So I am sort of leaning towards a new computer idea, and if you agree can anyone just give me a very basic picture of parts I should look into?? I will do plenty of research myself, but just looking for a starting point for the build.
I also appreciate any comments on what others thing I should do.
My card also was AGP.
(SPECIFICATIONS IN SIGNATURE)
I have three decisions I see fit to present here.
(1) Buy a new AGP card and keep on trucking
(2) Sell the system (scrap for parts) and move on to a new frontier with PCI-E and better parts.
(3) I just bought a Gateway CX210X Convertiable Notebook (Tablet Style), with Chassis w/ ATI Mobility? Radeon® X1400 64MB Graphics (up to 256MB HyperMemory) and Intel® Core? 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2.00GHz, 667MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache), and 4gb ram 80gb 7200rpm harddrive. And just use this as my primary machine.
What do I use the comp for?
I use to be a much more hardcore gamer, but it's dropped off lately with being busy, school, etc. But that doesn't mean I still don't like to game. Games I play when I can are like Battlefield 2, and I see myself going into some of the newer games coming out maybe like Starcraft 2, etc.
I mean I probably could put together a budget of $1k plus the scrap from the old pc.
I also travel a lot in the summer, which is why I have such a powerful notebook that is capable of gaming, and doing a lot of other such things. I also do a small amount of video encoding, but that may pick up when I pick up a new video camera to bring along with me for home movies and when I fly at times.
So I am sort of leaning towards a new computer idea, and if you agree can anyone just give me a very basic picture of parts I should look into?? I will do plenty of research myself, but just looking for a starting point for the build.
I also appreciate any comments on what others thing I should do.
