rackish February 22, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 22, 2003 I know , but I think I can stick it out. Also I could look at it this way: the next new video card I'll buy (probobly 2004ish) will be newer than the Radeon, I know it's a bad way of looking at the situation.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZDamage February 22, 2003 Share Guest ZDamage Guests February 22, 2003 btw homer, the radeon 9000 is just a dx 8.1 part. Think of it this way (it got me too, nice marketting by ati) there is no year "0". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief February 22, 2003 Share Chief Member February 22, 2003 I'm in between Homer and Rackish (closer to rackish). I know juuust enough. But I know this: you're just now able to afford an upgrade and you want to put yourself in the position of doing it again this summer? DON'T THROW GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD! Buy a card now that you can pull out of your system and put into your newer system. Buy one thing and buy the right thing. The card that will be good in your upgrades this summer should be the only consideration you make. That's my independent idea...not suggestions on technology or anything...financial advice. Be smart with your precious cash, man. Chief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZDamage February 22, 2003 Share Guest ZDamage Guests February 22, 2003 I'm in between Homer and Rackish (closer to rackish). I know juuust enough. But I know this: you're just now able to afford an upgrade and you want to put yourself in the position of doing it again this summer? DON'T THROW GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD! Buy a card now that you can pull out of your system and put into your newer system. Buy one thing and buy the right thing. The card that will be good in your upgrades this summer should be the only consideration you make. That's my independent idea...not suggestions on technology or anything...financial advice. Be smart with your precious cash, man. Chief That is the way to go. The best for the money right now is the radeon 9500 pro. 180 bucks and outperforms the gf 4600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Hurricane February 22, 2003 Share Guest The Hurricane Guests February 22, 2003 nvidia > ATI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConGregation February 22, 2003 Share ConGregation Member February 22, 2003 > > cane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZDamage February 22, 2003 Share Guest ZDamage Guests February 22, 2003 cane is an nvidia fanboy. when it comes to speed right now. nvidia = ati (the scores depend on the game and test being done) (How will this look a month or two from now? most likely ati > nvidia unless nvidia's next card has something specially powerful no body knows about right now) image quality (iq) ati > nvidia when it comes to price / performance ratio ati >>> nvidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 22, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 22, 2003 nvidia > ATI See this is why I like cane, he reassures me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Hurricane February 22, 2003 Share Guest The Hurricane Guests February 22, 2003 DX 8.1 > DX 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 22, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 22, 2003 So Homer or ZD when I get my new VID card I should reformate, then install, or other way around. (trust me the questions will be getting dumber and dumber..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 23, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 23, 2003 You can do it in one leap more or less: Back up everything Turn off computer Put in new video card Boot from CD or 3.5" disk * Reformat Install windows *you could also use fdisk as Leo described at this point: Leo's confusing 15 steps to fix your pc! 1) use the winxp cd or win2000 cd or a win98 as a boot cd 2) go to the bios by pressing del or f1 3) set the first boot device to atapi/cd-rom 4) load it up 5) winxp/2000 = press any key when prompted 6) win9x = when the menu comes up; boot with cd-rom 7) then type X: [X for cd-rom]8) cd win98 9) fdisk [7-9 should look like] A:> C: [A being usually a floppy] X:>cd win98 X:\WIN98>fdisk 10) delete whatever partition exists 11) create a primary fat32 12) shut down your pc 13) power it back up 14) do a full format meaning Format C: /autotest or just Format C: and voila you have a partition again 15) continue doing what you started... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 23, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 23, 2003 Ok. I was looking at my tower and it's welded pretty good, I'm not really sure if I could take it off w/ out messing up the tower Boot from CD or 3.5" disk *, what is this?, and Windows came w/ the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 23, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 23, 2003 Which version of Windows are you running? If it's ME/98 you can make a boot disk if you don't already have one, and boot from it and fdisk/format (I think you need to search for format.com and add it to disk, lousy Windows doesn't put it there by default). Start, settings, control panel, add-remove programs, startup disk tab - think that's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 23, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 23, 2003 XP. I'll do that. Thanks. Also I miss orbital, his guide helped me with tweaking XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 26, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 26, 2003 Well my gf4 arrived today, and wow all my games run much better, wewt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 26, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 26, 2003 Rackish, in case you didn't get the vsync thing in-game: Right click desktop Properties Settings Advanced GF4 tab OpenGL settings Vsync => Always off OK OK done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 26, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 26, 2003 Yeah, I did that on gf2, I'll do it with gf4 too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish February 26, 2003 Author Share rackish Member February 26, 2003 Any sites to overclock or to tweak gf4? because there's a lot of options on there . i'm gonna keep upgrading this comp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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