Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

That is acceptable, Arte.

I can't really afford to buy a new card even every year, so I stick with ATI, I buy a realtively top of the line card at the time I can afford to get a new one, and it lasts me a few years, My 4870 was bought with income tax refund, which is where this new one will be coming from... My cards tend to die before they're entirely obsolete.. Even by the time I'm going to replace them, the card is more than capable of running even the most recent and demanding games. The only problem is I always expect that there's going to be driver issues, so I'll either be left out for a week or so while a fix is figured out, or will just have to go without portions of the game (for instance, GTA IV, pool was literally unplayable due to a shading problem, it left the pool table, along with the balls, almost completely black.. You couldn't really see what you were doing to play, but otherwise, I was fine).

I'm not really trying to bash on Nvidia <.< It was just a joke (I can see you understand that, just putting that out there in case anyone else comes along). I'm not really about highest performance possible, I'm more about the durability in the long run. I have to stretch my budget as far as possible and ATI fills that role many times better than Nvidia.

7 years and 3 cards. all nvidia. my last one crapped out after 3 years. i blame myself for overclocking it and not cleaning it enough. the first one still works, but damn is it loud.

All I have to say is in the past ATI put a bad taste in my mouth with their god awful drivers. Wasted hours of time, gave countless amounts of stress and probably subsequent hair loss from frustration.
I never went back since.

Thank the Gods for the ability to roll back drivers though.

My ATI is like that now, it's on it's last leg.. I started to notice it dying a few months ago, and under clocked it, and gave it an extremely thorough cleaning, including taking it apart and washing all the components separately and new thermal compound..

It's not going to last a lot longer, but it was literally months away from tax refund when I'd be able to get a new one, so I've been babying it and doing a bit of crossing the fingers hoping it will make it.. Saying this, it will probably go out tomorrow, but so far, so good.. It only has to make it another month or so.. Then I can retire it.

This is all happening because I didnt buy the gtx 590.

If there's a manufacturer you have in mind, keep an eye on their main site as well as newegg because you can often find top-of-the-line cards that are OEM and thus dirt cheap. It's not like anyone uses the freeware and out of the box drivers anyways.

That must be it.. Or wait a few months, and you can buy the next newest and greatest line card. Although it will probably cost you more than the rest of your tower combined.

Haha, yeah, some of the new cards are ridiculous in price.
For $700 it better play everything on Ultra with 60+ FPS, bake me cookies and give great head.

I'm not loyal to any brand, current is sapphire, but I have no attachment to them.. I do a lot of research when I'm in the market for a new card, reading reviews and stories, I probably spend a cumulative of 5+ hours reading on every forum and review I can find.. Method hasn't steered me wrong yet.. You spend that much time you start to recognize patterns, some good, some bad, and then I can make a reasonable assumption of which is the best to go for. I rarely go for the absolute top of the line, because absolute top of the line is usually brand new, which from all my video card shopping, is a bad thing, and that's excluding driver issues.

the bad thing is that the 700 dollar card wont do a damn thing if your processor is bottlenecking your system.

Aye, GPUs are almost always ahead of the game vs CPUs, thus regardless of how nice of a system you have, you will get bottlenecking issues.
Hell I think a lot of those passive clock cycle programs used to research cancer/look for aliens stuff use GPU cycles to process the pattern cycling than CPUs now.

I can't play Crysis 2!! WHY?! I have <newest card at the time, can't remember which>, which is way more than the requirements, don't buy from this company, they make games that don't work.

[person in thread asking about their system requirements]

To which the reply is something like

<first gen dual core processor that I can't remember> 2GB RAM and 250GB hard drive


Actual forum post I ran across while looking up something completely unrelated (well unrelated to requirements, I was looking for driver issues -.-).

I still remember it, because I actually thought about making an account on the forum just to tell them what an idiot they were.

trying to listen to the vet and reduce the dogs food cuz they are so fat lol but they keep bugging and asking for food lol then my parents keep telling me they want food. -_- i know they do but they are so over weight >< then my dad still feeds them lol /rageflip

sounds like my cat chuuuu

I'm still mad.

its hard for anyone to lose weight in this house lol

Be the first then chu >:

Was surfing through old random bookmarks I left behind on my unused firefox browser and found this gem

Read: Don't click if you're easily offended by naughty words.

what you say something?

Want a free gpu?

hrm sure i wouldnt know what to do with it though :3

It's pretty heavy. Maybe you can throw it through someones window...

or could be an ugly paper weight

I think it looks neat >:

ugly xP

you could throw it at someone too, maybe get the point across to stop overfeeding the dogs..

also i lol'd at the posh ladies arte

Okay so random question.. (you might have to manually scroll in it's CTRL+Mouse wheel the way I do it) to actually see what I'm talking about.. Picture wasn't no where near as big on the original I transferred to my computer as it came out on Photobucket..



In the red oval, there is a vein in my finger, very hard to see (but on a bigger picture you can see it clearly) Can anyone else just put their thumb on that spot of their finger and monitor their own pulse? I can <_< basically trying to see if that's normal or not, I've never heard of that, but you'd think if that was a relaible way to check pulse, you'd of at least heard it once or twice.

your carpet is dirty

If you can't tell by the frayed edges, this carpet is old as hell. It was actually given to me by a friend (a lot of it) from a church he was working on as general labor. The church wanted a spruce up, which meant new roof, new carpets and all that.. He gave us the carpets, since they were good size, that carpet is what keeps my chair from rolling around these stupid hardwood floors anytime I try to prop up my legs..

They really only serve that purpose, to keep my chair from rolling freely/at random.

Ther'es another, even larger set of two strips (which is all tha'ts in here, you can see the split in the pic) in my son's/mother-in-law's room, still kinda dingy and obviously used, but they look better..

A lot of that grunge came from me taking my dirt bike apart in here.. Wife has pics, there are pieces everywhere.. I'm sure she'll see this then decide to go and find them (hint hint)..