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basic computer help needed.. (pg. 5)
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| Jem_hadar |
Ive never had more than 1GB of RAM in my compy... until a year ago or so, only ever had 512.
So, should 2GB be good and sufficient yall think? 3GB would be kinda overkill for what I need? |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Playa24_7
When the fack are you guys getting some Geforce 8800 GTs in stock!??
I reserved it at my Waterloo location, but who the fack knows when they will be getting stock, fack! Any ideas when??
Future Shop had it, but it went out of stock super fast. They apparently have stock coming in tomorrow for it, because I see pre orders on the site, but I dunno. |
lol I get that question atleast 20 times a day, we got a couple in our store, the waterloo location should be getting some in either today or tomorrow call them about it, and if you see a cute cashier name Teresa tell her I said hi ;) lol why don't you wait for the new ATi 3870? We're the only store in Canada that will have it for a while :D |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
Ive never had more than 1GB of RAM in my compy... until a year ago or so, only ever had 512.
So, should 2GB be good and sufficient yall think? 3GB would be kinda overkill for what I need? |
Right now 2 gigs of memory is ideal, and the prices for DDR2 memory is dirt cheap right now, like $25 for a gig. |
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| Spin Laden |
| quote: | Originally posted by zokissima
To Spin Laden:
The drivers for the DVD burner are more than likely allready there in the Windows XP image, thus to install the burner, you're looking at only a couple of kilobytes of space, which is effectively nothing, so install away.
As for burning DVD's, you can do as Cosmic says, but you mentioned that you allready have a secondary partition? Just store data there.
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I did all those things, did a defrag, freed up 30GB by dropping all content onto the external, installed more memory but the DVD disk freezes up when loaded. No compu 'tang for me :( |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Thinkpads are the best machines on the market. |
Yes they are.
I have a hook-up if anyone is shopping... |
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| Playa24_7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Invasionmix
lol I get that question atleast 20 times a day, we got a couple in our store, the waterloo location should be getting some in either today or tomorrow call them about it, and if you see a cute cashier name Teresa tell her I said hi ;) lol why don't you wait for the new ATi 3870? We're the only store in Canada that will have it for a while :D |
Possible pricing expected?? That's my biggest concern lol
I think I talked to Teresa today on the phone for a bit, considering when I'm in there I only ever see one girl lol |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Playa24_7
Possible pricing expected?? That's my biggest concern lol
I think I talked to Teresa today on the phone for a bit, considering when I'm in there I only ever see one girl lol |
The ASUS 8800 GT 512MB (600Mhz) is going for $295.99
Does she have a deeper voice? |
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| DUPL0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Thinkpads are the best machines on the market. |
my company just got me an R50 its great (although slightly old)... unfortunatly they're too cheap to buy the rights for xp and it's still running 98!! which is killing me. better than no laptop though i suppose |
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| Jem_hadar |
And, further
128MB ATI Radeon X1300 OR
128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS ???
Would either of those get me through Guild Wars fine? :)
or should I need to get a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT-DDR3 ? |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
And, further
128MB ATI Radeon X1300 OR
128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS ???
Would either of those get me through Guild Wars fine? :)
or should I need to get a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT-DDR3 ? |
not too sure what the exact requirements are but between the x1300 and the 8300, I'd go with the 8300 because of the DX10 compatibility. |
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| Playa24_7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Invasionmix
lol I get that question atleast 20 times a day, we got a couple in our store, the waterloo location should be getting some in either today or tomorrow call them about it, and if you see a cute cashier name Teresa tell her I said hi ;) lol why don't you wait for the new ATi 3870? We're the only store in Canada that will have it for a while :D |
I've always liked Nvidia, and I don't think ATI has anything on them in terms of design, GPU technology, and bang for your buck.
The 8800GT beats out ATIs new 3870 card in every benchmark test that I've seen so far. On paper it looks like ATIs new card beats out Nvidias, but according to the benchmark tests, it doesn't at all. I'd much rather get the Geforce 8800GT that's for sure. |
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