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{rIOT gIIIRL} Gigi

i was saying NOT to buy one of those...i was explaining to vman about the 8600's

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"In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." - James Stewart

I was explaining why i wouldnt get it!

So i got news about the 9600..it beats that bitchass card cursed was talking about

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"Who controls the present controls the past. And, who controls the past controls the future" - George Orwell

lol mine was 100 bucks, it was a steal at the time

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"In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." - James Stewart

WEl the 8600's are 100 bucks now. Evga are good cards. The 8800's are 150 now which be a better better. I don't know how the 9600's are but I would like to get an 8800. This one runs its but that would be better.

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Thats way to much. 8800s can be had for $115, 8600s can be had for $33, and 9600s (same power as a 8800) $90.

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-- .:Splak|StackableNut --

Yeh, I would say go with the 8600's because of inexpensivness. Plus it should be able to run about any game exept for crysis or some thing.

Whenever I get around to it, I'll replace my geforce 420 for one of those.

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oya, if i have no vid card already (its on-board or w/e), will there be a slot for a new vid card to be put in?

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"Who controls the present controls the past. And, who controls the past controls the future" - George Orwell

most likely there will be atleast one

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.:Splak|VMAN

so your saying your current video card is integrated? cuz if it is, before installing a new vid card you should do this

go to your desktop, right click, properties, hit the settings tab, hit advanced, hit the adapter tab, hit properties, the bottom of it, it should say Device Usage, disable it (DON'T UNINSTALL IT, or you will have an ass of a time, cuz you'll have to do a driver rollback or format your comp)

or you can do it the fast way

start, right click my computer, manage, and on the left side, click device manager and the right side should change, click the plus sign (for more options) on display adapters, and your video card name should be there, right click that and do disable (NOT UNINSTALL, I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH)

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"In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." - James Stewart

wtf is the point of that?


If you get a new video card, you just stick in the slot, hook up the VGA or DVI cable to it and it works just like that, then you install the drivers

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.:Splak|VMAN

no, cuz if you have an integrated video card with a new video card, your monitor will be black when it's on

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"In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." - James Stewart

Weird.


When I got mine it automatically disabled the onboard and switched to the card, then I just had to install the drivers to get the right resolutions and stuff

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.:Splak|VMAN

yeah, sometimes you have to disable it manually, it's pretty lame, i accidentally uninstalled my video card, and for some reason, my driver rollback was deleted and i had to format my comp, it was soooo gay

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"In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." - James Stewart

when i turn on my computer, the moniter says "check the moniter cord" but after like 20 seoncds it changes to a half blue-half black screen, then the windows screen lol

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Yeah well they are even cheaper than they were the last time I checked, but its been a little while.

And most computers I've dealt with automatically recognized the card when I plug it in and turned the integrated video off. They all were AMD computers. I've only dealt with one INTEL that I had to manually diable it. Not sure if it had anything to do with it or the BIOS version. Maybe Cole will know.

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