Actually, looking at the Gateway DX110X
You can upgrade the video from integrated to an NVIDIA 7300LE for $60. The question is, is the NVIDIA 7300LE any good? The "LE" at the end means the performance has been downgraded in some way.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
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Gudanov - Mar 30, 2006 7:59:02 am PST #7746 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Betsy HP - Mar 30, 2006 8:00:52 am PST #7747 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Second Life may not run on graphics/video cards other than the ones listed above. Unfortunately, if your graphics card includes any of the following words, it's NOT compatible with Second Life:
* nVidia cards that report as a RIVA TNT or TNT2 The following cards have not been tested with Second Life, and compatibility is not certain:
* nVidia cards that report as Quadro
How can I tell what a card reports as, for the love of Mike?
TomW - Mar 30, 2006 8:05:58 am PST #7748 of 10003
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
How can I tell what a card reports as, for the love of Mike?
If somebody sells you a computer with a TNT or TNT2, then report them to the Better Business Bureau. They are quite ancient and no new machine will have them.
Quadro cards are specifically for high-end graphics workstations. Again, unlikely that anybody would try to sell you that for a home machine. They're quite expensive.
Having said that, TNT and Quadro are names that would appear in the description of the "graphics" for a computer, if they applied. Which they won't.
NoiseDesign - Mar 30, 2006 8:06:39 am PST #7749 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
How soon do you need the machine? If it can hold until the mid-april I'd be happy to build one for him and it could be in a custom case like the Bat Computer I built for Joe and Aimee.
Gudanov - Mar 30, 2006 8:07:28 am PST #7750 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
RIVA, TNT, and TNT2 are really old chipsets, you might find TNT2 in some generic $25 video card, but generally they aren't available anymore. Quadro is the Nvidia workstation video card, it will be branded that way and won't be in any mainstream computer.
Edit: Nvidia chipset crosspost.
The 7300LE looks okay, it has DX9 support according to Nvidia. The 6600GT and 6600 are probably faster, but I have no idea how much difference it would make.
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2006 8:08:38 am PST #7751 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've heard ND builds excellent computers. His secret ingredient? Love.
NoiseDesign - Mar 30, 2006 8:10:39 am PST #7752 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Awwww.
It also comes from the fact that most of the machines I build are meant to run in situations where failure would mean ruining a large performace.
Betsy HP - Mar 30, 2006 8:12:09 am PST #7753 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
ND, I think that would be a treat for him, but I should ask. The birthday is April 7th.
Do you have a link to a screenshot of the BatComputer so I can show him?
NoiseDesign - Mar 30, 2006 8:17:57 am PST #7754 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I got the case from Directron.com and would be happy to build a machine into pretty much any case they have. I could probably finish the machine by April 15th so he'd have to be okay with waiting a week on his gift.
Rob - Mar 30, 2006 8:40:52 am PST #7755 of 10003
If you're in the Bay Area then Central Computers will build systems for you. Here's their choices for gaming systems, but I imagine they'll put in anything you want.
I doubt there will be love, though.