i checked myself. on the review it says it has a radeon 9800, in the specifications it says it has on board video... someone has been copypasting 
if you don't want to spend a lot of money,
i would suggest spending little money (about 70 euros) and getting an AGP ATI 3650 which will play LFS very well. And other games too, if you don't need AA/AF a lot
if you don't want to spend a lot of money,
i would suggest spending little money (about 70 euros) and getting an AGP ATI 3650 which will play LFS very well. And other games too, if you don't need AA/AF a lot
read what the drift guy says.
overlooking posts, so badly written that would make any elementary school teacher weep, i'd like to point out, that in a usual PC and under usual circumstances, it is not 'always' the cpu/gpu that 'bottlenecks' the system. depends largely on the matter at hand. No matter what combination of CPU+GPU you have i can show you code that will STARVE one and leave the other idle. So in the end, saying that "the cpu will bottleneck the system" is really just empty words, especially when you do not specify the circumstances.
oh, jakg, the k8 is the athlon 64, not the dualcore. dualcores are codenamed K9. and in many benches that i see, they are perfectly adequate, since in modern games the gpu has a very heavy burden.
to fully understand where i am getting at, first look at a simple benchie from gamestop. i mean, gamespot. ()
Notice the numbers in the '1600x1200, High Quality' table.
we see here that any decent cpu (C2D, X2, phenoms, QX) will perform the same. why? because the "gpu bottlenecked" the system. Since i do not really like that phrase, though, i will say "gpu bound" instead. but that would be incomplete. The complete way would be "with crysis 1600x1200 high settings, if you have a 8800GTX, it doesn't matter what cpu you have. you'll get 25 fps tops" (similar benchies here which show that with a 8800gtx and high quality at very high resolutions it doesn't actually matter what cpu you have. )
tl;dr: gpu matters way more than amd vs intel.
oh, jakg, the k8 is the athlon 64, not the dualcore. dualcores are codenamed K9. and in many benches that i see, they are perfectly adequate, since in modern games the gpu has a very heavy burden.
to fully understand where i am getting at, first look at a simple benchie from gamestop. i mean, gamespot. ()
Notice the numbers in the '1600x1200, High Quality' table.
we see here that any decent cpu (C2D, X2, phenoms, QX) will perform the same. why? because the "gpu bottlenecked" the system. Since i do not really like that phrase, though, i will say "gpu bound" instead. but that would be incomplete. The complete way would be "with crysis 1600x1200 high settings, if you have a 8800GTX, it doesn't matter what cpu you have. you'll get 25 fps tops" (similar benchies here which show that with a 8800gtx and high quality at very high resolutions it doesn't actually matter what cpu you have. )
tl;dr: gpu matters way more than amd vs intel.
i really don't know if it is the card dying...
only font rendering seems to be problematic. and things that have to do with 2d anyway.
have you seen any problems in other games?
i don't think the card is at fault, but i wouldn't be surprised if in the end it is
only font rendering seems to be problematic. and things that have to do with 2d anyway.
have you seen any problems in other games?
i don't think the card is at fault, but i wouldn't be surprised if in the end it is
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yeah. notepad initialy couldn't open files larger than 64KB. So they hacked it so that you can open bigger files, but the hack doesn't work very well in all the circumstances.
this is relevant to the PAE i mentioned earlier and you correctly said that you only heard bad things about it. That is why linux, which doesn't use the PAE, is stable while windows isn't.
so if notepad wants to access more than 64K in windows XP the PAE doesn't work very well in OCed systems, because the tight timings that the hack requires frustrate the MMU of your CPU.
and you bsod.
please don't ban me
this is relevant to the PAE i mentioned earlier and you correctly said that you only heard bad things about it. That is why linux, which doesn't use the PAE, is stable while windows isn't.
so if notepad wants to access more than 64K in windows XP the PAE doesn't work very well in OCed systems, because the tight timings that the hack requires frustrate the MMU of your CPU.
and you bsod.
please don't ban me
i told you it would bsod when running notepad! 
but you didn't listen to me
what did it say when it bsoded?
but you didn't listen to me what did it say when it bsoded?
it isn't that simple
usualy ram access is done in a linear fashion which ram can do quite well (random access memory doesn't actually like being accessed randomly:schwitz and when you have that you want high frequencies... when you have cache misses, then CAS comes into play. different situations favor latency or bandwidth at SOME point, but in the end, generaly, you want both.i haven't read about trains when studying comp arch and cpu design anyway... so i don't understand what to say about it
if i were him i'd just get myself an agp card with 50 bux or so and be done with it. maybe get a slightly better proc for another 30-40 bux too. and 20 for some mem and voila.
it will bsod when you try running notepad. you've GOT to expect it
you've GOT to expect it jakg here is saying that CAS is the most important between latencies. memory, in general must have both low latency and high frequency.
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um yeah. the idea is indeed novel, but it can't be done.
once, as a test, guys from a car/driving magazine in greece, tried traveling from athens to thessaloniki, a 500km distance, obeying the limits.
it took them EIGHT HOURS.
the GMA 3100 is faster than nvidia 7150, ati 1500
http://www.notebookcheck.net/M ... Benchmark-List.844.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/M ... Benchmark-List.844.0.html
talk only about windows (and in fact, xp) , because other 32bit OSs (including some 32bit variants of windows, but not xp) use the mechanisms that allow >4GB addressing in 32bit mode. here
why is only 3.5GB 'available'? what do you mean 'available' ?
hm. while i DID suggest you go from the 750W to a 500W one, it would be nice if you stayed at more or less the same price region... maybe it would be better if you stayed with the 750W one after all :/
where did you see that?
here, i do not understand nothing of what you say because you contradict yourself. Also, i do not 'implicitly' nor 'explicitly' admit the link is right or wrong because i do not even going to read it, for a matter like this.
Um... ok... your experiment is wrong, if you had done this correctly, the small ball will reach the bottom of the ramp first. objects rotating while going down ramps can not be explained with the same mechanics that you explain objects falling down.
a pingpong ball is not a good choice because for it the effects of air resistance can not be ignored. try with something else that is spherical but solid, not hollow.
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what?
your experiment was not well set up.
you should but you don't. sorry.
uhhh... no you don't... ? who told you that? there must be conservation of angular moment, but that does not mean that you have to spin anything. look at an electric motor. an electromagnetic field, while not spinning, carries momentum and angular momentum too.
you mean that due to higher density of transistors in the circuit, a higher voltage may have more profound effects in the workings of the cpu?
well yeah, i agree, but it's not like these new CPUs have the same voltage as the older ones. sizes dropped and voltages dropped. in the 'early days' you went from 1.6V to 2V for a barton and you didn't think twice about it. that's a 25% increase in voltage. a similar percentage in newer CPUs should have the same increased risk...
i dunno... sometimes i think that an overclock will fail because the chip has a sliiiight defect that doesn't make any effect until you push the CPU. after all, overclocking is going out-of-spec so... meh
well yeah, i agree, but it's not like these new CPUs have the same voltage as the older ones. sizes dropped and voltages dropped. in the 'early days' you went from 1.6V to 2V for a barton and you didn't think twice about it. that's a 25% increase in voltage. a similar percentage in newer CPUs should have the same increased risk...
i dunno... sometimes i think that an overclock will fail because the chip has a sliiiight defect that doesn't make any effect until you push the CPU. after all, overclocking is going out-of-spec so... meh
dude... you're responding as if i said that you like men singing 
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