Re: Any thoughts on buying a refurbished GTX-260...maybe?
- From: newton <hasbr@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:17:33 GMT
This system has no onboard graphics which is wonderful!
I can go back in memory and remember a very special 386 I had with a
Micro Channel Architecure and a fantastic Matrox Card of all of 2MB
memory - it rocked!
The board is supposed to be able to support video channels independently
from other components - and if that is cool and true - then my PCI ATI
Card should really rock. If hype - then I will check other points out.
It is suppossed to be an independent PCI/PCI-e/AGP Bus with fixed rate
and heck. I run two games. EA Sports Madden NFL 08 and EA Sports
Baseball 2005 - no new games have came out for the PC since then for
baseball, I could run them on nothing almost.
I solved the freeze problem by the way. Gnats decided to commit suicide
in my system and bounced from spot to spot. I ripped the computer apart
down to its internals and found a dead gnats. It has now been running
since I put it back together again for about three days without a single
freeze.
The new box will upgrade me to 420w of power plus an upgradeable socket
for a CPU and let me use my old equipment. I am going to call the thread
over and go about my life. Wonderful help. Sorry I could not continue
with DELL. Just DELL wants me to replace everything I have to get a new
computer without providing support for upgrades. I will never get rid of
my printer - a Panasonic 24-pin from Win 3.1 days!!
bye and thanks
the thread is dead now.
Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:01ved3tutacldau2st7tjp1gjro01au8d9@xxxxxxx:
The video cards that share memory with the motherboard are very.
cheaply made. In general, they are little better in performance than
graphics built into the motherboard chipset, at least with Intel
chipsets. Not sure about VIA chipset motherboards with on-board
graphics, but VIA is respectable, much more so than SiS for
motherboard chips. The MSI card is to be avoided if you want any
decent performance at all... Ben Myers
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:33:39 GMT, newton <hasbr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:c1ped31umrm8an4fd0t1bse676a38aato8@xxxxxxx:
The mobo chipset is a Via 880 Pro/Ultra and the articles I was reading
about the chipset were old. Support for that chipset was added in a
kernel for at least the Ubuntu distro.
I'll give it a shot - www.anandtech.com did a review on the board
quite extensively and found it to be a decent board for the money and
a good solution if one wants to use their older parts. They compared
the DDR2 v DDR and found only a slight difference between a DDR 400
and a DDR2 533 for example and found that on that board AGP slightly
outperformed the PCI-E side because PCI-E is limited to 4x where AGP
is 8x. In any event I will not be buying a new video card soon as I
will continue using my PCI ATI card - but I did find an interesting
MSI card with 128MB on board that will share memory with the mobo if
you allow it up to 512MB for $30.00.
This setup sounds like it will work well for me, as the board supports
Core-Duo as well if I choose to upgrade the CPU later.
thanks for the help.
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