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Re: dumb graphics card/chip question

Subject: Re: dumb graphics card/chip question
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:57:36 -0700
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 thanatoid <waiting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>Pennywise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in 
|>news:1ed9a2drh2n70k8d7e9tcbhs1hc89oite6@xxxxxxx:
|>
|>>  thanatoid <waiting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>> 
|>>|>I run Win98SE Lite on that machine. It has 256MB Ram about
|>>|>140+ of which is always free. I understand up to 64 can be
|>>|>used by on-board graphics, even though it appears I can
|>>|>reserve from 4 to 256MB RAM to "AGP Aperture Size" in BIOS
|>>|>(but I'm not sure if it's exactly the same thing). 
|>> 
|>>|>I tried a "Fear" demo from "PC Gamer" magazine a few months
|>>|>ago and it said I needed a 3-D card. 
|>> 
|>> Save your money you can't play F.E.A.R. on your machine.
|>> This is made for a high end game machine.
|>> 

|>I don't *want* to play fear, I bought the magazine out of 
|>boredom and to see what ridiculous new heights the graphics card 
|>technology was reaching. I liked the fear logo so tried it and 
|>it didn't run, not surprisingly.
|>
|>What I want to play is another game which is about 3 years old 
|>and has very modest requirements (800MHz proc etc). My question 
|>regards the graphics side only.

GeForce is a graphics card - if you purchase one, I'd suggest the 6800
as you can hack it to a better card.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/25/2222212


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