On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:36, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:47, Russell Coker wrote: > > I don't know which sub-version of the GeForce cards I'm using, I just got > > whatever was cheapest at the time (you'd have to be crazy to buy a > > high-end NVidia card - they release new models every 6 months and the old > > models then sell for less than half price). > > Wow. Good point. I feel retarded now. (Sean's wallet is hurting after > he replaced one of his old video cards which melted with a Geforce3 Ti > 500 at x-mas.)
That's another thing. If you buy an older model card in a tiny box with no manuals etc for $150 and it melts you're not going to be nearly as unhappy as if the same thing happens to a high-end $700 card that came with all manuals etc. My observation is that if you buy a new cheap card every year you'll spend less money than if you buy a new expensive card every second year, and on average you'll have better hardware as a new cheap card is usually better than a 1 year old expensive card. > When I plopped in the nVidia binary drivers, tho, I sure know it looked > great. ^,^ Zangband has never looked so crisp... Zangband? Speaking of the binary drivers, that logo and delay on X startup annoys me. I'd like to get a patch that removes it (yes I know that means a binary patch), if I can find such a patch (or be bothered writing one) then I'll release some unofficial debs that do it. ;) BTW I changed this from debian-devel to debian-user as it has nothing to do with development. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
