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Ironwood
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So, the office was so untidy that dust totally clogged the wifes Video Cooler (no, that's not a euphamism) and it stopped working. So did her card. I verified that was the problem and popped out and bought another cooling fan. Wrestling with that fucking bastard either broke the card completely, or it had already melted to slag.
Long story short (too late) I need to get her another card to play WoW quick or I'm not going to be getting any for years.
However, as per normal, I'm now looking at this as a golden opportunity to upgrade my Radeon X800XT and maybe slip the new card in my machine and give her my old one.
Yes, I'm evil.
So suggestions for a really good card, or possibly just a decent one ? Please don't gimme PCI-E only suggestions. I never bothered upgrading to that.
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Ironwood
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HmmmmI'm told it's the fastest AGP on the market.
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Trippy
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If that's the 24 pipeline version then yes it is.
Edit: 24 not 20.
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« Last Edit: October 17, 2006, 05:21:42 AM by Trippy »
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Cyrrex
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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OcellotJenkins
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I too haven't upgraded to PCI-E and had a card melt a few months back. My replacement choice was the 7800GT 256MB and I couldn't be happier. For some reason Newegg doesn't it list it currently, but I'm sure it's come down in price significantly if you can find it.
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sinij
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Investing into AGP card right now will postpone your upgrade by maybe another year while you are paying premium for the privilege of using old technology for longer. Consider PCI-e, comparable card will actually cost less in PCI-e than AGP. Downside is that you need a new mobo ($60-$200 more)
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Signe
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I have the same thing that Ocelot has and I like it a lot, but that's not the point. The point is that you're going to take the fancy new card and give your lovely wife your crappy old used one. I think that's awful. If Righ did that to me, I'd have very sad feelings. :-(
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Yegolev
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Phooey, whoever has the oldest part gets the upgrade. I did this to my wife, giving her my old ball mouse while purchasing myself a fancy blue-laser one. We are still married. What ever happened to the equality movement? Don't tell me that it only moves in one direction.
She did eventually buy a tiny Targus mouse with a retractable cord.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Sky
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I have the same thing that Ocelot has and I like it a lot, but that's not the point. The point is that you're going to take the fancy new card and give your lovely wife your crappy old used one. I think that's awful. If Righ did that to me, I'd have very sad feelings. :-(
Dude, she plays WoW. She only needs a toaster.
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Ironwood
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My feelings exactly. Let's be clear here : Her Machine May as Well be called 'The Green Day And Browsing E-mail WoW Station.'
I'm the gamer in the family.
Besides, if she was a better wife, she'd have tidied the house and her card wouldn't have got choked up in dust and broke.
Fucking Women. Get back in the Fucking Kitchen.
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Engels
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That's it. For the next month, insist she dress as a Night Elf while in your presence!
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Are you intimating that he's that orc guy?
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Xanthippe
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I think you should buy her a whole new computer. She did, after all, host your spawn. Some women get diamond bracelets. I bet she'd like one ofthese better.
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Signe
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I think you should buy her a whole new computer. She did, after all, host your spawn. Some women get diamond bracelets. I bet she'd like one ofthese better. Absolutely. They don't get it. I wouldn't mind Righ telling me he had to get a new card and going off to get one. I would be hurt if I said I needed a new card, or whatever, and he bought it for himself and tossed me his old rubbish. I might not even say anything... but my feelings would definitely be hurt. I would definitely give him that look, too. You know, the all eyes one.
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Nija
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Man i bought one of those 7xxx series AGP cards and I regret it bigtime. It was a total impulse buy after my 6600 GT went up in a puff of dust-induced smoke.
I'd get a 6800 series PCI-E card and a cheapie PCI-E ready board. Change the hdd controller to "standard" drivers, switch it all over to the new stuff.
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Ironwood
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Why ? Explain the regret please.
Further Info : I just went into my Device Manager now I'm home to find that My Video card isn't even what I thought it was. It was worse than hers. When did that happen ?
I'm convinced I was fed a nice meal, made drunk and then forced to swap cards.
Women.
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Yegolev
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I think you should buy her a whole new computer. She did, after all, host your spawn. Some women get diamond bracelets. I bet she'd like one ofthese better. Only get her an Alienware if you truly hate her and would like to see her cry at some point. My wife's Area51-M finally had a stroke and is being replaced (we don't really have the budget for that but it's inhuman to ask her to live without a computer, especially in light of the impending Sims expansion), since you can't get replacement video cards and the Alienware "support" staff is apparently made up of scripts and various Miami homeless. I cannot say enough bad things about my Alienware experience.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Nija
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The regret came a few months later when I wanted to buy a faster processor and I ended up with a bastard motherboard that has a PCI-E slot and an AGP slot. The card doesn't really seem to be as fast as all the claims are. I have the BFG Bestbuy special 7800gs, and going from a 6600gt to that, despite the lame fantasyland benchmark of 3dmark2006 saying that it was TWICE AS FAST, I just don't see it.
If they're super cheap now, I'd say go for it. Otherwise I'd pick up a 6600 gt or something along those lines for super super cheap.
Tangent, when my 6600 GT died due to the fan breaking one way or another, I noticed on the box (after I had already impulse replaced it with the 7800gs) that it had a lifetime warranty. Sure enough, I got on the XFX website and emailed my information as much as I could remember (purchase date was just month/year, and it had been something like 14 months after I bought it) and I got an email reply within a week. The guy gave me a RMA number and all I had to pay was $9 Fedex to ship it back to them. The next week after that I had a brand new 6600GT, which is now living in my SO's PC.
Based on this my next video card is going to be an XFX, whatever they offer when the time comes.
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Signe
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Why ? Explain the regret please.
Further Info : I just went into my Device Manager now I'm home to find that My Video card isn't even what I thought it was. It was worse than hers. When did that happen ?
I'm convinced I was fed a nice meal, made drunk and then forced to swap cards.
Women.
Men are all about the pressies, women are all about the sacrifice. You go and buy her a nice pricey card and if she knows you need a card too, she'll tell you to take it. It's what we do. We like when we sacrifice to make sure our man has what he wants. This is where the diamond bracelet comes in....
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Strazos
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I would not throw much advice in the way of swapping to PCI-e around to Ironwood. He's looking for a new card, not an overhaul with a new motherboard and CPU.
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Samwise
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HmmmmI'm told it's the fastest AGP on the market. That looks tasty. Get that. Also, I'd swap the old card into her machine before going out to get the new one. That way it looks more like you're sacrificing your machine to save hers, and less like you're grabbing a shiny new card and giving her a hand-me-down.
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Lum
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Unless she is TOTALLY techy-illiterate, she will notice if you get the new shiny and you give her the hand me down.
Also she WILL benefit from an upgrade if she raids in WoW. Some of the raid instances are fairly video-RAM intensive.
So, being married, you know what to do. You're more likely to be forgiven when you spontaneously upgrade your own card later, too.
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Cyrrex
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Further Info : I just went into my Device Manager now I'm home to find that My Video card isn't even what I thought it was. It was worse than hers. When did that happen ?
I'm convinced I was fed a nice meal, made drunk and then forced to swap cards.
Women.
Really? I can't remember what my Device Manager was reporting back, but this has happened to me before when using some wierd custom drivers...where the video properties would report back a different card than I was actually using, probably because it was using the BIOS from an different card (sometimes people do that on purpose to soft-mod a card). On the other hand, if your wife actually liquored you up and swapped cards whilst you were passed out on the couch - well, that might be the greatest thing I've ever heard.
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Xanthippe
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Unless she is TOTALLY techy-illiterate, she will notice if you get the new shiny and you give her the hand me down.
Also she WILL benefit from an upgrade if she raids in WoW. Some of the raid instances are fairly video-RAM intensive.
So, being married, you know what to do. You're more likely to be forgiven when you spontaneously upgrade your own card later, too.
If you buy her a new system, she will no doubt say, "please - go buy a new card. Get whichever one you like. You deserve one." Happiness all around.
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Xanthippe
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On the other hand, if your wife actually liquored you up and swapped cards whilst you were passed out on the couch - well, that might be the greatest thing I've ever heard.
Women aren't sneaky like that. We get them to swap out their own cards whilst under our spells instead.
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Yegolev
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Spells. Indeed. Certainly vocalizations and hand gestures are involved, and objectives are achieved without physical effort. Sounds like magic to me.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Signe
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We have powers, you know.
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Ironwood
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Well, you all deserve to know what transpired.
I bought the Fastest AGP card in the west. I went with my conscience and decided to give it to the wife.
Sigh.
I open up her machine and slam it in. Hmmm. It needs two power ports. Which she doesn't have. WTF ? So I take the CD Rom one and crank it in there 'to test'. Naturally, it doesnt even fucking work 50% of the time. WTF, I say again.
So I yank my own card and stick it in hers, thinking I've fucked everything. It works fine. Hmmm, I think, horrible suspicion coming over me.
I install the BIG CARD in mine and it works fine. Hmmmm, I think. What to do ? I explain the whole situation to the wife who says' For Fuck's Sake, I don't even want the thing, it makes more sense for you to have it anyway.'
Happy with that, I carry on as normal. Until her machine starts dying, rebooting and spluttering to a halt. The clever amongst you will already have figured it out, of course : I re-open her machine and take a look at the power supply. 300w max.
FUCK.
So, I'm off to the shops today to buy her a new PSU.
I hate life. Even when you try to do the right thing, something kicks you in the sack.
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Engels
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Ya, unfortunately, even with AGP cards, when you go higher end, you're going to want at least 350 watts, sometimes more, depending on what periferals you're running.
The 'good' news is that there's a small chance that the problem all along was a PSU failure. Get her something from a reputable company, 450 watts to be on the safe side, and see if her old card works. PC Power and Cooling are the most scrupulously engineered, but Antec, CoolMax, Asus and Zalman generally prove to be longterm stable PSUs as well.
PSU failures are often hard to diagnose because they present themselves as erratic failures that can look like a video card failure, a ram failure, a cpu failure or any other type of failure.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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Lantyssa
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300 watts? What kind of ancient abomination are you making the wife use? Poor woman. 
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Ironwood
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What's weird is that I'm up at 450 and my rig is EXACTLY the same as hers apart from the VGA.
So I have no idea why I haven't noticed the power supply being duff before this. Those GeForces must draw a huge amount o' Juice.
In related, womanly, news, she is getting the whole traumatic incident made up to her. I won't say how for fear of rampant jealousy and women henpecking their men for 'the same' all round.
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Nija
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Signe
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Well, you all deserve to know what transpired.
I bought the Fastest AGP card in the west. I went with my conscience and decided to give it to the wife.
Even though you try to hide it, and very nearly succeed, you're a good man and deserve to have a wife. 
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Yegolev
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Those GeForces must draw a huge amount o' Juice.
The tip-off is the molex connector or two. This is exactly why I was going to jam a second PSU in my chassis, since I have several crappy PSU that are doing nothing. One for the mainboard and Geforce, one for the media drives. Or some variant. I commend you on handling the wife part so deftly, even if technology did bite you in the ass.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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