As I mentioned above, it's better to leave out the battery. For example, I have a Palm V PDA that has a Li-ion battery that's still going strong after 2.5 years. My friend on the other hand bought his only about a year ago and his battery is noticeably weaker. The difference was I would wait...
Best thing to do probably is to remove the battery when you're using AC power only. Only have it in when using it away from the outlet. Batteries don't like to be continually charged either.
The GF4 will definately help you out in WC3. I had a P4-2400 shackled with a GF2 ti200 and sucked with WC3 at 1280X1024X32. After GF4 ti4200 I can play at 1600X1200X32 with no slowdowns at all. Looks so much better!!
I ended up buying a 128mb card after hearing Quake 3 will be using 80mb textures. On a 64mb card means using main memory to help hold textures and that will mean a major slowdown, since they'll have to be repeatedly transferred over the AGP bus.. Then again you can always turn down the texture...
Anyone remember the Seagate ST-225 20mb 5.25 inch HD? It had a blazing 80msec seek time! Aren't cdrom's faster? I think it maxed around 512K/sec on data transfers
I have it still spins up, but I don't have an mfm controller anymore... Anyone have any of those hanging around?
Didn't a number of sites b'mark the 64mb vs 128mb version and in a few b'marks (I think it was RTCW or Jedi II) the 128mb scored much better than the 64mb. Probably secondary to the larger textures in these games.
It wouldn't exactly be pointless since the quality of the image would be dependent on the monitor's ramdac instead of the GPU's ramdac and filters. Therefore, potentially raising the 2d quality of an NVidia card. Also you bypass the signal degredation that sometimes happens with an analog...
Are these cards even worth it? At $215, it isn't much of a stretch to fork over $20 more and get a genuine 4400 with BGA memory chips rated at 3.8ns...
I had the exact same setup and exact same o/c results with my 1.8A from newegg. I can get it up to 2.4 but I need to crank the voltage up to 1.775 I don't feel comfortable at that voltage (besides prime95 temps seem to scale exponentially above 1.7V) so I dropped it down to 2.3 and have been...
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