Fried Hardware

[Qwijy]

Strakeln fried one of his video cards, er, well, at least mostly fried it. I think he then dunked it in water just to be sure. Makes for a good excuse to upgrade.

I'll be back in a week or so. Poor Gtar will probably need a vacation by the time I get back.

[Aranticus]

lol i fried my lcd monitor

nothing for today until i get a new 1 tomorrow

[Amabel]

Strakeln fried one of his video cards, er, well, at least mostly fried it. I think he then dunked it in water just to be sure. Makes for a good excuse to upgrade.

I'll be back in a week or so. Poor Gtar will probably need a vacation by the time I get back.

The server will collapse, because I hear Gtar is busy doing other things at the moment.

[Gawna]

Onoes! Who will naked dance with me and accept sexual favors in your absence? Hurry back!

[dakkon75]

Onoes! Who will naked dance with me and accept sexual favors in your absence? Hurry back!

Hey Gawna, I will be happy to "fill" that position for you. Don't forget the ham oil.

[Emili]

'Et, No wonder I've bloody been waiting so long... http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...6&postcount=32

Please hurry, My days grow dark, I still await your implanting the seeds of enlightenment.

[Strakeln]

'Et, No wonder I've bloody been waiting so long... http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...6&postcount=32

Please hurry, My days grow dark, I still await your implanting the seeds of enlightenment.

lol

New video card is here, but I have to wait for mo' memory and a 64-bit OS to arrive. New vid card has 2GB of VRAM, that'd leave me with 1GB of addressable RAM after DWM had it's way with my machine.

I'm itching to install this bad boy, it's a friggin monster

[BLAKROC]

Strakeln fried one of his video cards, er, well, at least mostly fried it. I think he then dunked it in water just to be sure. Makes for a good excuse to upgrade.

I'll be back in a week or so. Poor Gtar will probably need a vacation by the time I get back.

I can't beleive you spilled your beer on the Qwijy machine

[Strakeln]

If the new Vid card has 2 gigs, it should be it's own ram and not take any away from your system

Correct. The problem is that the CPU still has to fill the video card memory, and to do that it needs to store the location of the video card memory. Here's a long story that sorta explains it.

And as far as i know, won't you have to wipe your system to goto a 64 bit OS?

Correct.

[Strakeln]

I can't beleive you spilled your beer on the Qwijy machine

Actually, it was the Strakeln machine that got whacked. Contrary to popular belief, even I can't stand just logging on to sell... no Strakeln, no Qwijy

[Slink]

So, qwijy gets a new machine..

I smell inflation coming soon.
Buy your scrolls now while theyre still cheap!!

S.

[Strakeln]

So, qwijy gets a new machine..

I smell inflation coming soon.
Buy your scrolls now while theyre still cheap!!

S.

Nope, Qwijy's machine is still the same old PoS. My year-old machine got the upgrade

Although now I have a couple spare 8800GTs laying about (one partially fried) that I'm considering putting in there. Qwijy's computer has a 64MB video card... GeForce Ti300 or something like that, lol.

Sad thing is, when I bought that machine ~9 years ago, I was the envy of all of my friends. A 1.9 GHz P4! 512 MB RDRAM! 64MB video card! 80GB hard drive! OH YEAAAAAHHHHHH KOOL AID!

I also distinctly remember wondering how the hell I'd ever run out of space on an 80GB hard drive... . Now I worry that my two 500GB drives won't be enough. Funny how fast things change.

I think the funniest part though is memory prices. RDRAM is notoriously expensive compared to SDRAM. To upgrade that thing to 1GB of RAM about three years ago, it cost me around $180. Compared to my recent update, where I bought 8GB of RAM for $90.

[bubbazen]

The gods of hardware must be very angry because I lost the motherboard on my primary gaming pc Saturday morning. I decided to overhaul the entire system and expect my new parts soon.