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5th September, 2011 at 00:29:40 -

i just bought a brand new gaming power supply, so im pretty sure my power supply is alright. my friend had an ati card that was even better than mine and his did the same thing mine did, so idk if i wanna get another, ive never used nvidia so i think ill give them a try, if i experience more problems with nvidia than ill go back to ati.
did it run fallout 3 max graphics settings? cuz the video card i have now used to be able too... and id give it to you, if i knew how to send it to you lol. i might try selling it for cheap on ebay to maybe knock a few bucks of the purchase of my next video card. and i was lookin at that card on tiger, not as good of ratings as the other one i was looking, i might look into it a bit more though.

 
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5th September, 2011 at 04:47:27 -

I honestly don't know if all the settings were turned up. IIRC fallout 3 doesn't have much to adjust . . . but if AA was an option I don't think it was turned on. It didn't run at 60fps, but it was perfectly playable and the game looked nice. On lower resolutions it was hitting high FPS easily.

 
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5th September, 2011 at 05:26:14 -

not bad, not bad at all, but im looking to play more graphically challenging games other than fallout 3. stuff like, mass effect 2, black ops, and most of all... BRINK. i bought that game a few months back super disappointed to find out i couldnt even play any bit of it. i suffered through some of the game with the coppiest frame rate youve ever seen on lowest graphics settings... and i liked it, but i would LOVE to play it with no coppyness lol

 
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5th September, 2011 at 07:17:33 -

Get a pair of these and you should be set!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130593



 
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5th September, 2011 at 08:39:46 -

oh if only i had 700$ to spend on those video cards. you think what i posted will be able to play it minimum settings?

 
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5th September, 2011 at 09:20:58 -

If you're still wanting cheap:

Pretty sure the card I posted is better than what you had before, but

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150537&nm_mc=EMC-GD090111&cm_mmc=EMC-GD090111-_-index-_-Item-_-14-150-537

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5th September, 2011 at 15:17:17 -


Originally Posted by Silveraura

Originally Posted by Phredreeke

Originally Posted by Silveraura
The best thing to do in a situation like this, is to



install linux.



This might be a good option for people who enjoy tinkering with their computer frequently and often adjusting stuff and getting their hands dirty, but remember... not all of us like spending more time working on our computer than we do our projects or playing games. I prefer an operating system that's a little more self-maintenance than Linux, but doesn't hold your hand through the pink fluffy gardens of pony's and unicorns, like a Mac. And for now, that operating system is Windows.

Nothing against Linux, your average computer user, even your average programmer, is going to feel more at home with Windows. Linux has a pretty small niche and because of that, serves to it incredibly well... but as soon as you start trying to recruit people from outside of that niche, you're only hurting the operating systems good name; people wont to be able to use it right and dismiss it as junk.



This was what I thought, until I installed Ubuntu and everything ran so, so smoothly and easily. Computer took about 2 mins to boot up, compared to the 15 or so with Windows Vista. It's very easy to figure out too, as long as you have enough internet access to google for help so people can hold your hand through stuff.

But like Opera and Mac, Linux doesn't run very much. I mean, you could play most Click games through Wine, and plenty of good games like Tropico and Football Manager, but not as good with most modern FPS games.


Though, yeah, I've had problems with ATI and AMD a lot, looks like the major brand names are still the best. Stats just don't match up, especially with a laptop where overheating is more of a problem.

 
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5th September, 2011 at 17:45:59 -

Well with the new anaconda runtime you can run MMF games on linux, right?.

Anyway, if your computer takes 15 minutes to start up you're doing it wrong and need to L2computers.

Even when my computers are bogged down with unnecessary bs they take less than a minute to start up. My computers have always been 5-10 years behind the times and I've never had issues with slow startup.

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6th September, 2011 at 20:24:17 -

lol my computer only takes 25 seconds to start up, and another 10 to log on and load everything

 
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