Posted on 06/22/2005 4:45:04 PM PDT by Sofa King
Nvidia's latest line of graphics cards are out.
Some links:
anandtech
Tom's Hardware Guide
Product Page
Video game ping (just started)!
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I wonder if there's such a thing, as an external graphics card? My laptop could use the upgrade. Sand might be a problem for me - then, it's a problem for everybody...
A friend was telling me about some of the laptops used in Iraq, said one was blown out of a hummer by a IED.
It still worked, hard case, tough, shockproof, waterproof.
That's what I want.
My younger bro, a FReeper as well, built me a custom laptop - used a Dell Inspiron as the base, and upgraded the bejeezus out of it. It stood up to temps in the Mojave, last month.
The apps we use, though, are graphic heavy, and 64MB of video memory is the problem - I'm asking the CPU to drink from a firehose.
Put me on that list. I love gaming.
Hmm. Clicked on the link, good stuff. I have an NVidia at the house, but the laptop coming with me has an Intel driver.
I just wonder if it could be connected via a USB port, or something...
Yow! 64megs! Must be awesome.
Well, I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think that there's anything other than directly plugging the card into your montherboard that would work very well. One of the constant bottlenecks in modern computing is memmory. The video card needs to get data from the computer as quickly as possible, and USB would probably be WAY too slow. The only ways of hooking the card into your computer I know about are AGP and PCI express.
It is... and it's not enough...
Some graphics apps use the hardware, instead of a RAM chache, and if the app doesn't see enough hard memory, it chokes up.
Hmmm... and part of that NVidia link mentions PCI express.
Hmmm...
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Thanks.
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My first computer had an ATI card which had the most wonderfull habit of crashing every 5-20 minutes, no matter what I was playing. I swear, I haven't had as many crashes in the three years since I switched to Nvidia as I used to have in one day with that card.
haha..I don't doubt it..I purchased one of those ATI video capture card's (el cheapo), man that thing could crash ANY OS!
Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of nVidia eating ATI's lunch.
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