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Journal nizo's Journal: Wow my video card no longer sucks 10

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There is a massive improvement now that I got my new nvidia geforce card working under linux. Firefox looks nicer, blender actually runs and works, and everything just seems snappier. Hopefully my cooling is good enough for the new card. But it sure kicks the hell out of the crappy old pci card I was using before. And with 256MB of ram, it has more memory than the first crappy 486 I bought for two grand way back when.

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  • I bought for two grand way back when

    Have I mentioned lately how awesome you are? ;)

    I'm strictly a $100 guy. Card breaks down, and I buy whichever Nvidia card works best around that pricepoint. I think the most I've spent is $130.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      Yeah that was insane, as was the powermac I bought for another two grand about six years later. There is no way in hell I would (or even could) spend that kind of money now (back when I was single/without kids and living in a two income household, I was much less thrifty :-D) Also it is hard looking at a machine I spent so much on become so worthless so quickly.

      This is just an geforce 6200 ($60 including shipping and a slot exhaust fan) which is waaaay more reasonable.
      • Yeah that was insane, as was the powermac I bought for another two grand about six years later.

        Sounds like a bargain. Let's go back to 1990, Mac IIx, 16mz '030, 8 meg o' RAM, 80 meg hd... $6000. Not satisfied, I put in 32 meg of RAM for another $1100 (Used Connectix software to make a 16 meg ramdisk and put my system folder on it. Sure booted fast) and a Rasterops 24STV video capture card for I think around 300. Filled the drive up in less than a minute. Worth every penny. Now I'm a dumpster diver with noth
    • I'm a sub-$100 guy - I usually just buy the cheapest one I can get away with or get it bundled in with my box/laptop.

      Think the most I ever spent was for a video card for an Apple II+ ....

      Of course, they're mostly built in with Macs, and that's about 1/2 of my computers.
  • Around 96-97.

    Yow. 1400 card in a 1400 PentiumPro.
  • "And with 256MB of ram, it has more memory than the first crappy 486 I bought for two grand way back when."

    You had 256MB of ram in your 486?!?! I don't think my 486 had a 256MB Hard Drive.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      well, umm no, I think it had like 16 or 32MB (thus the part about "having more memory than my first crappy 486") :-)

      Oh and I remember now, it was a crappy packard bell with ONE simm slot. How lame was that???
  • the best cards I've seen is the 7950gt fanless. I just love not having to have that extra fan and noise. It being nvidia is also good since I switched to ubuntu (ati card drivers still don't take well to linux).

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      Nvidia was also a no-brainer because pretty much all the high-end software I want to run specifically lists nvidia as the best supported cards.

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