The un-offical Video FAQ We should start one...

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We don't need to have 5 threads of CRT vs LCD and threads about which drivers should I get for my video card.... Who wants to compile a FAQ?

 

[cw42]

i'm too lazy.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: cw42
i'm too lazy.

 

[AndyHui]

We do have FAQs for video. Everyone is too lazy to make them, or can't be bothered to update them. There's only so much I can do.

 

[cw42]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
We do have FAQs for video. Everyone is too lazy to make them, or can't be bothered to update them. There's only so much I can do.

i just saw the link in your profile. whoa, never saw that before. u guys should sticky this stuff to the forums so that newbies will hopefully read it.

 

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This will be updated...sometime tomarrow .....

 

[nitromullet]

I don't think we need a FAQ either.... One of the most often asked questions is, "what video card should I get for ~$200". This question has been asked and answered a number of times over the last few months and was answered recently in the AT Video Card and Memeory price guide.

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2109&p=2

For those of us on a decent budget, the Radeon 9800 Pro still takes the cake for its price: Performance ratio. Most vendors are handing out these GPUs for around $200, depending on where you look, and they are able to handle pretty much every game currently available on the market.

you can't stop people from being lazy...

Edit: That being said, if you start one and it gets stickied, I'll be more than happy to contribute

 

[Cawchy87]

or just 1 sticky showing people how to use the search function...

 

[AndyHui]

Originally posted by: cw42

Originally posted by: AndyHui
We do have FAQs for video. Everyone is too lazy to make them, or can't be bothered to update them. There's only so much I can do.

i just saw the link in your profile. whoa, never saw that before. u guys should sticky this stuff to the forums so that newbies will hopefully read it.

We tried it. It didn't work.

I'd be happy to take submissions for new video FAQs or updates to the old ones. A number of the original FAQ contributors are no longer around and it's been a long time since there has been anything new in the video section.

So, how about it? Your name immortalised on the main AT site.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I was thinking something along the same lines, with all of the threads with repeated/similar topics, both here and in some of the other forums (GH mostly as well). Actually, I had a further thought - a user-editable (but with backups) Wiki, alongside the discussion forums.

So basically, if someone sees a good, informative chunk of information posted, they can then add that to the "knowledgebase wiki" directly and immediately. Submissions should probably be queued or somehow trivially editorially-approved, just prevent direct abuse.

In a way, this is almost sort of similar to how Usenet works, at least originally. Discussion threads that were answers to a question posed, the original poster was supposed to post a summary, with the answer, once the discussion had finished, and those were often culled and collected into the FAQs, that were of course periodically re-posted. Since web sites are more "persistent" than Usenet posts, I thought that a Wiki might be more appropriate.

I actually think that StorageReview started something like that a short while ago, I know that they added a Wiki, but I don't know how much contribution/activity has occured on it. I don't think that a lot of the members even know that it is there.

Unrelated, but in a similar vein, I believe that some of the AT OS FAQ stuff, like FAT32 and Scandisk and volume-size limits, is actually incorrect. (But it is based on an MS KB article that is itself ambiguous, leading to the incorrect interpretation.) Specifically, there is no problem creating a larger-than-128GiB FAT32 partition, and running DOS-mode SCANDISK on it, under Win98se. That may have been an issue in Win95 versions, and Win98 gold, but I think that they fixed it in Win98se, because it does work. The MS KB article mentions Win95 and Win98, but doesn't mention Win98se specifically, which leads to the ambigious conclusion that it affects all Win9x OSes, when in fact I don't believe it does. At least that has been my experience. Sorry for the OT, but I thought I would mention it since this thread apparently has your attention, AndyHui.

 

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Agreed, Virtual Larry. I start in some time, I have some finals to take care of.

 

[AndyHui]

No one wants to help with the video FAQs?

 

[AndyHui]

Bump...

Still no one wants to help?

 

[Schadenfroh]

ill be gald to help, what do you need done? im on summer vacation and bored out of my skull, although i suck at MS response times on LCD screens. im good at video cards.