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Has it got a PCI Express slot on it? (Is that even available yet?)
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quote:Slots � One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4x/8x slot � Five PCI 2.2 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots. (support 3.3v / 5v PCI bus interface)
So, no.
And there are some boards with PCI-E (which, if you're wondering, is not the same as PCI-X) slots out already, but they're still very very pricey and, since there are no PCI-E video cards yet and today's fastest AGP cards don't even max out the AGP bus, also very very pointless to buy. Plus, Tim is a big fat cheapskate, so he wouldn't have bought one anyway.
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What the hell are computers even about? Mine is loud. I wish I could stick some cotton batting into it to shut it up.
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Power supply. That thing you plug the power cable into. Buy one that's advertised as being quiet, and that's powerful enough for your computer. Unscrew the old one, take it out, screw in the new one.
Actually, get someone else to do it. Someone clever and sexy. Called Liam. Pay for him to go there. Buy him a plane.
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And inhale all that turnip-free breath! York! (phunnie word)
My Dell 8200 was quiet as a mouse when I got it, you didn't even know it was on unless you looked at the HD dioda. But then I bought the first-generation GeForce4-card, whose fan later was revoked and rebuilt by Nvidia (not mine)...
After I had installed it, the comp sounded like a miniature jet engine. *WEEEEEEEEE!!!* Still does...
(*this can be taken as meaning that the computer sounds happy and euforic. Such is not the case.)
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Well, that's your fault for buying a first generation GeForce 4 card, isn't it? Couldn't you tell by looking at it that the fan would be loud enough to wake the dead?
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Laff all you want, I've gotten three good years out of this card and it's still going, no point in trading up a 128RAM-card for a, um, *checks Nvidia/ATI* 128RAM-card. That's one of the benefits of buying the first version of a new family of tech-thingies, whatever type of machinery it is. The intermediaries are never as boosting as the next BIG thing, and the last one.
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But on the negative side, you pay a hefty price premium, and miss out on them correcting all the errors in the second round of cards.
And the amount of memory that a card has really isn't that relevent. You could buy a GeForce IV MX with 128mb of memory, or a top of the range GeForce FX with the same amount. Doesn't meant that the cards are even close to each other in terms of performance.
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