june gloom on 26/11/2011 at 23:00
Does anyone actually even do that? Video cards don't last forever -- 3 years of heavy use take their toll.
also for god's sake it's spelled 'tons', T O N S, please don't make me tell you again
lost_soul on 26/11/2011 at 23:11
True, but that depends on how much you move the components around. The solders for stuff like the PCI-e power connector are bound to break if you transport a card from one case to another every few weeks, but e.g. my old Geforce 4 TI 4600 still works great. I'm considering trashing it though along with a Radeon 8500LE. It gets to the point where one can't justify keeping all this stuff around anymore
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIaRQ0ZiJsc)
It played Quake 3 like a monster though, but only skated by in Doom 3.
Sulphur on 27/11/2011 at 07:56
Well, yeah? I was rocking a Geforce for Quake 3 and it was golden.
Volitions Advocate on 27/11/2011 at 07:56
Quote Posted by lost_soul
It gets to the point where one can't justify keeping all this stuff around anymore
Set up Grandpa with a Jolicloud account, and install Joli OS on that machine and you've got a supercharged email, IM, Skype, and youtube machine.
