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Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...
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Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:45 amby Dan
I have quite a few questions needing quite fast answers: I was mooching around my local PC World last night and I have the opoetunity to buy an ex-demo P4 3.06GHZ 256DDR RAM machine with 15in TFT monitor, all for
Re: Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...
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Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:23 amby JBaymore
The price sounds too good to be true for the specs........ so likely it is ;D.
Never heard of them either.
Shared graphics cards are no good for FS work. You'll likely have to disable it and install a good agp graphics card. (It DOES have an agp slot, doesn't it? What speed..... 4X, 8X?) Shared graphics seems to me to be the hallmark of a "cheap" machine. WHY it is set up that way in a machine with those basic "high end" specs is a REAL question for me.
Caveat Emptor.
best,
....................john
Re: Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...
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Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:32 amby Dan
Right.... I will check the AGP spec... The internet question was: I have my ISP running this PC fine. Can I run it on another PC, in the same house without being charged more?
Dan
Re: Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...
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Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:53 amby Delta_
I have heard of Medion, my friend has a comp built by Medion. The quality is pretty good, and he has had it for 1.8 years now, so they last aswell.
Re: Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...
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Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:21 pmby Stratobat
The internet question was: I have my ISP running this PC fine. Can I run it on another PC, in the same house without being charged more?
Yes, you can create a LAN session, that way one PC is used as the host PC for the internet and the other PC "piggy-backs" off the connected PC. I'm not 100% sure how to do it though, but I know it can be done.
Regards,
Stratobat
Re: Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...
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Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:26 pmby congo
Dan,
Shared graphics card = Onboard graphics chip = junk gaming!