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11-11-2006, 09:50 AM
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Empress™
Join Date: 08-19-04
Location: York, UK
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RIP GeForce4
Early this morning, hailed only by the flickering of my monitors, came the grim reaper for our good friend, my graphics card. It drew its last dying breaths at around 7am.
GeForce4, I met you when you already were suffering from old age. You served me well; For four months you supported my dual monitor setting and helped smooth over my graphics like only a close friend could.
My computer setup is just not the same without you. My 19" LCD misses you so much that she refuses to connect with anything else for the time being.
You will be sorely missed. Rest in peace.
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11-11-2006, 09:54 AM
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v7n Mentor
Join Date: 10-12-03
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Boy, and I thought I was the only crazy one around here.
Good buy and good luck, card.
I don't even know what I've got .. probably the crapiest one in existence. lol
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11-11-2006, 10:02 AM
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Empress™
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This one was second hand, but it let me use two monitors. So sad.
Though my brother says he thinks he has an extra for me.  |
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11-11-2006, 10:06 AM
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v7n Mentor
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Two monitors, one for each eye? That's gotta be a trip.
I'm waiting for the time when most everyone will have chair and headgear standard. Yeah like I'll live to see that. lol
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11-11-2006, 10:28 AM
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Empress™
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Just an extended workspace.
But more importantly... running photoshop or even just trying to SCROLL is proving to be a challenge.
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11-11-2006, 10:36 AM
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Freakgeek
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I thought you could hook up two monitors to any computer? Huh. Shows what i know about graphics cards.
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11-11-2006, 10:41 AM
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Empress™
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You can get a splitter for identical output, but you need an enabled graphics card to have more than one workspace. For my work and monitors, I have and require one DVI and one VGA port.
At this point my computer is on its last legs (it's nearing it's 4.5 years) and I'm hoping to get some Christmas money towards a laptop or a new system. Chug chug a lug.
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11-11-2006, 10:44 AM
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Freakgeek
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Cool. My graphics cards are probably crap then. I just have whatever it came with.
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11-13-2006, 07:45 AM
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Empress™
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My brother had an extra in Toronto (2 hours away). With some scrambling, order is restored! I can scroll smoothly now!
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11-13-2006, 07:46 AM
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v7n Mentor
Join Date: 06-19-04
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Tsk Tsk.... Should have gone with ATI  |
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11-13-2006, 09:21 AM
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Join Date: 02-16-06
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Are you sure it's dead? My ATI Radeon dumped on me a month ago, after a quick fan swap and heat sink replace it's doin just fine.
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11-13-2006, 09:53 AM
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Empress™
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It was free (and old), as is the replacement. So no worries. |
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11-13-2006, 10:48 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: 02-16-06
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chicgeek
It was free (and old), as is the replacement. So no worries. |
Glad to hear it, those are the best kind. |
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