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Value (Price/Quality) for Computer Upgrades?
Sierpinski asks: "I am currently researching a new video card, and seeing that PCI-Express has pretty much taken the industry by storm, I have not been able to find a relatively recent (late-model so to speak) AGP card. If I get a PCI-Express card, I'll need to upgrade my board. If I upgrade my board, I doubt my CPU (slot 462) will still be usable. As much as price is a factor, compatibility is as well. I've run into problems in the past where X memory wouldn't work in Y boards, etc. Does anyone have a spec list of the main components (board, CPU, memory, video card) that are recent (ie 6800GT PCI-Express), and work well together?"
Also: Fuck you, you motherfucking pile of lazy fucking shit for brains. Fucker. And what the fuck does "work well together" fucking mean? You mean how fucking nice does your fucking OS fucking play with it? That's called a motherfucking HCL. Dumbass. Every fucking OS has one. Fucking Google it. Bitch. Other than that, if the fucking pieces fit together without a fucking hammer, they ought to fucking work fine. Or you can get your fucking money back. Bitch.
Spoken just like a Mac user. Have fun with Apple's forced obsolescence!
I'm very comfortable spec'ing the rest of a system, but I can't seem to keep up with the video market - maybe because I'm not a gamer. The last system I built I bought a $50 Nvidia card in the hopes that it would be better/faster than the cheap on-board video I've used before. I could not get the Nvidia drivers to work right in FC3 or FC4, despite reading howtos and forum postings for hours. Finally, I decided I would just use it in the regular mode that FC4 had built in drivers for. Needless to say, I see no benefit for the moeny I spent, so that will be the last Nvidia-based video I pay extra for, if they open-source their drivers and get in included in major distributions, I will buy more of their product, but not until then. I understand they want to protect their IP, but that doesn't get me an easily installed 3D video card, so I won't send them my money.
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