I kind of did that, dropped a Radeon 7000 circa 2001 in a 1997 powermac 9600 300Mhz, plays Qauke III Arena really nice, other than that, yea the rest of the system really holds it back.
though on a 1997 system with a 1997 video card the video card was obviously holding the system back, just simple 2d quickdraw the cpu would go to idle while wating for it, so theres a balance
will your old machine benifit from a new video card, hell yes, will your new video card make your old machine perform like a new machine, hell no, but it will go quite a way if you just need an extra little boost to a system thats doing fine, but may be just draggy in the video department.
currently I am using a Phenom II tri core at 2.8Ghz with a GTS250 on a motherboard that is AM2+, but is "AM3 ready" whatever that means and it did make a noticable improvement, but not "OMFG punch your momma" improvement over the 2.5Ghz X2 I was using... just enough to smooth out many jitters
hell they fixed that on my 9600GT, PCI-E 1.0 slot, 2.0 card have had no problems since 2008 till now, running on a geforce 7 chipset cheap ass MSI motherboard
I dont know what console your talking about, even the wii has a system specs list on the back of the game, last time I used a sony it seemed like every game had to do an OS update, no dropping in and playing here, oh you need firmware version 1.0.1.4.2.1, please wait an hour and we might brick your console
I use ispy for industrial automation type tasks when a butterfly flaps its wings and some weird anomaly pops up on one of the machines. Has a lot of features and works quite well
for an intern its about how much you learn, but aside from that, you can make 120,000 in new york and live just as well as someone making 30,000 in Atlanta, location has a big impact
I live in the southeast, and got offered 40k to move to California. 40K a yea where I live gets you a decent sized house with a good sized chunk of property and a couple decent cars. In LA that gets you a next to crackhouse apartment and a an 83 civic.
"Let me put it to you like this: if you lost your job today could you get another that was remotely in the same class if you did not have a computer, phone or any other way of connecting to the Internet to taking calls?"
yes, I lost my job in 2011 and though no use of the internet gained employment at 2 jobs (one temporary and one permanent) that paid more and actually fit my personal interests with little more than showing up to a employment agency daily
its called getting off your ass, during the height of the under-employment propaganda I never spent more than 1.5 months unemployed, I didnt wait for email, I showed up standing at the door while the employment agencies were unlocking them and planted myself as a constant nuance.
oh so I have to bend over backwards to avoid the limitations of the given software, go OSS
heres the deal, I write to a csv file, load it up, it >= 1024 columns
if I use the excel starter edition that came with my laptop it can phrase a 25 meg text file in CSV format within a matter of seconds, if I use libre it truncates the data and requires me to engineer a solution
I dont want to engineer a solution when a freebe that came with the computer can already do it
I have a data acquisition device that spits out nearly 4000 columns worth of data per unit that needs to be charted on a weekly basis for production statistics
homeless people are not blowing 100 bucks on a tablet or 200 bucks on a celphone they cant afford service to
dumbshits do, they have the disconnected iphone and sit in public wifi zones to actually use them, they look good emailin while sitting next to the garbage can
one that requires voltage to keep it on, one that requires voltage to keep it off (P channel vs N channel FET's), ones that require current levels to keep it on and off (npn and pnp BJT's)
so to say
"First, keeping the voltage on requires power"
is a broad statement, yea something that uses power requires power
Then
"Second, transistors must be hard-wired into the chips and can't be reconfigured"
well yea, but we have long established configurations of transistors that can be reconfigured to suit needs, its called programable logic and spans the life of PAL's, GAL's, CLPD's, and upto FPGA's
so, what exactly are you trying to tell me other than magnets can drop power consumption since they have a physical state memory, we already know that from core memory.
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I have a tri core phenom 2.8 ghz, gts 250 and 4 gigs of DDR2 on windows 7
at the very worst you get a studder now and again from most "normal" games, heavy number games can bog here and there but not enough to bother me
I kind of did that, dropped a Radeon 7000 circa 2001 in a 1997 powermac 9600 300Mhz, plays Qauke III Arena really nice, other than that, yea the rest of the system really holds it back.
though on a 1997 system with a 1997 video card the video card was obviously holding the system back, just simple 2d quickdraw the cpu would go to idle while wating for it, so theres a balance
will your old machine benifit from a new video card, hell yes, will your new video card make your old machine perform like a new machine, hell no, but it will go quite a way if you just need an extra little boost to a system thats doing fine, but may be just draggy in the video department.
for about the same amount of money you can get a AM3 chip. It will work in a AM2 / 2+ system (but check with your montherboard maker first!)
80 bucks gets you a 3.2Ghz Phenom II quad core
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HDZ955FBK4DGM-BP&cat=CPU
currently I am using a Phenom II tri core at 2.8Ghz with a GTS250 on a motherboard that is AM2+, but is "AM3 ready" whatever that means and it did make a noticable improvement, but not "OMFG punch your momma" improvement over the 2.5Ghz X2 I was using... just enough to smooth out many jitters
hell they fixed that on my 9600GT, PCI-E 1.0 slot, 2.0 card have had no problems since 2008 till now, running on a geforce 7 chipset cheap ass MSI motherboard
in my pocket, can't wait for that
huge spread sheets and the ability to take a ms document given to me by a customer and not totally fuck the formatting
LibreOffice doesnt do what I need it to
making decisions, using a screwdriver, and operating windows is complex?
you know this is a hobby children can do right?
I have never in my life seen a mailman walk
sorry which one was the sports car?
I dont know what console your talking about, even the wii has a system specs list on the back of the game, last time I used a sony it seemed like every game had to do an OS update, no dropping in and playing here, oh you need firmware version 1.0.1.4.2.1, please wait an hour and we might brick your console
A PC that runs Linux? you dont say, wow ... mind = blown
sudo apt-get and flash that crashes every 10 seconds
I use ispy for industrial automation type tasks when a butterfly flaps its wings and some weird anomaly pops up on one of the machines. Has a lot of features and works quite well
you can write something useful in PET BASIC
for an intern its about how much you learn, but aside from that, you can make 120,000 in new york and live just as well as someone making 30,000 in Atlanta, location has a big impact
I live in the southeast, and got offered 40k to move to California. 40K a yea where I live gets you a decent sized house with a good sized chunk of property and a couple decent cars. In LA that gets you a next to crackhouse apartment and a an 83 civic.
"Let me put it to you like this: if you lost your job today could you get another that was remotely in the same class if you did not have a computer, phone or any other way of connecting to the Internet to taking calls?"
yes, I lost my job in 2011 and though no use of the internet gained employment at 2 jobs (one temporary and one permanent) that paid more and actually fit my personal interests with little more than showing up to a employment agency daily
its called getting off your ass, during the height of the under-employment propaganda I never spent more than 1.5 months unemployed, I didnt wait for email, I showed up standing at the door while the employment agencies were unlocking them and planted myself as a constant nuance.
oh so I have to bend over backwards to avoid the limitations of the given software, go OSS
heres the deal, I write to a csv file, load it up, it >= 1024 columns
if I use the excel starter edition that came with my laptop it can phrase a 25 meg text file in CSV format within a matter of seconds, if I use libre it truncates the data and requires me to engineer a solution
I dont want to engineer a solution when a freebe that came with the computer can already do it
I have a data acquisition device that spits out nearly 4000 columns worth of data per unit that needs to be charted on a weekly basis for production statistics
um no
maybe for the home user using a shaky msoffice 2003 clone is ok for grocery budgeting or the church newsletter, but it falls in the real world
for example, go and try to open a spreadsheet in libre with more than 1024 columns
logic is made out of transistors
needs are things you have to have
food
water
clothing
shelter
you will survive without internet, man has done it for thousands of years, its not a need
homeless people are not blowing 100 bucks on a tablet or 200 bucks on a celphone they cant afford service to
dumbshits do, they have the disconnected iphone and sit in public wifi zones to actually use them, they look good emailin while sitting next to the garbage can
you just discribed capacitive FRAM which has been around commercially for nearly a decade
one that requires voltage to keep it on, one that requires voltage to keep it off (P channel vs N channel FET's), ones that require current levels to keep it on and off (npn and pnp BJT's)
so to say
"First, keeping the voltage on requires power"
is a broad statement, yea something that uses power requires power
Then
"Second, transistors must be hard-wired into the chips and can't be reconfigured"
well yea, but we have long established configurations of transistors that can be reconfigured to suit needs, its called programable logic and spans the life of PAL's, GAL's, CLPD's, and upto FPGA's
so, what exactly are you trying to tell me other than magnets can drop power consumption since they have a physical state memory, we already know that from core memory.