nvidia graphics card help required

[Mick]

anyone now where i can buy an nvidia geforce 4Ti graphics card? in town would be preferable over the internet. are they easy to install for a computer-illiterate retard such as myself?

[thread_killer]

don't buy one in the city. just don't.

even maplin are too expensive, their cable prices are pure extortion like (they are expanding after all, opening up new stores around the place).

try places like komplett.ie

physically installing the card is easy as pisch.

if you get an AGP card, and i believe the 4Ti is an AGP card, then you'll probably only have a single AGP port on your mother board. so there's only one place where you CAN stick the card.

[cantankerous bastard]

Nvidia cards are cool, I have one at work and now I can do this....

http://tinypic.com/fyo7bb.jpg

Thats a taskbar stretched across THREE monitors in case you were wondering. Fuck I'm cool.

...and I've also now stretched this thread beyond recognition, har har

[i_didnt_do_nawtin]

they are actually, the multiple desktop thing is dead handy too (and linux people still think they're the only ones to have it)

[lestat]

best of luck getting a geforce 4 the 52xx's were around about 2 years ago , i currently run a 6800 gt ( 256mb) you should be getting a 6xxx model card anyway. otherwie you'l be changing it in a few months to play something else. BTW i am selling an x800 SE Pci-e card 128mb) if anyone's interested PM me

[Mick]

best of luck getting a geforce 4 the 52xx's were around about 2 years ago , i currently run a 6800 gt ( 256mb) you should be getting a 6xxx model card anyway. otherwie you'l be changing it in a few months to play something else. BTW i am selling an x800 SE Pci-e card 128mb) if anyone's interested PM me
sorry man, you're talking to someone who knows fuck all about computers. if it says i reguire a geforce 4/ti, what should i be getting if i don't want to have to replace it in a few months?

[ProcMan]

Mick is that for a game or something ? one card is never specified for anything, it might be recommended but most cards should do if its the same or better than the min spec required

[Mick]

Mick is that for a game or something ? one card is never specified for anything, it might be recommended but most cards should do if its the same or better than the min spec required
aye, Call of Duty 2. bit of a WW2 FPS addict me. installed the game but wouldnt work on my geforce4 card, said it dodnt support texture thingymajiggy. It names on the box a whole whack of cards that it works on but not mine. bah humbug

[Mick]

oh yeah, it's dvd rom instead of cd rom. is that important? i have dvd on my comp.

[thread_killer]

they are actually, the multiple desktop thing is dead handy too (and linux people still think they're the only ones to have it)

multiple desktops are handy. shame you need two monitors and special hardware to get that going on.

i've got both the virtual desktops and the virtual terminals withing a single terminal (man screen) thing going on. so really, you don't even need virtual desktops (unless you are running lots of X stuff) you only need a single terminal - xterm, aterm, kterm, gterm, rxvt, puTTY or whatever and you can open many virtual screens within this single magical rectangle on the screen. FAB!

check out synergy. plug: http://synergy2.sourceforge .net/

[BangorFeen]

oh yeah, it's dvd rom instead of cd rom. is that important? i have dvd on my comp.


Mick, it really all depends. What sort of money are you looking to spend?

Lestat's card will play the game with all the bells and whistles but it costs about €280-300

Furthermore what processor and RAM have you got? Oh and what motherboard, some graphics cards are AGP, more are switching the PCI-E now though

Don't get a Geforce 4, they're 3 years old now, you can do better for the same money

[fytaan]

Bit of a COD addict myself Mick, have a nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card and had no problem installing the game. Not sure how much or where to get one though, came with the comp. (from the UK)

[BangorFeen]

Wooooo, check out the big swingin' mickey with his shwanky graphics card!
(joshing)

For the record there are a number of online retailers Irish customers have resort to

www.dabs.com
www.komplett.ie

are probably the best two. Postage will be in the region of €10-15

[RuffCherry]

Mick, check www.komplett.ie. I very recently purchased a nVidia 6600 GT PCI Express for a new PC I was building. If your budget can afford it then you could consider stretching to the 6800 or further. Either will rock with COD2 depending on the other specs i.e cpu and space requirements.