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Bring out your dead...
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 17:34
by amblin
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Posted: March 20th, 2007, 17:37
by FatherJack
If one was selling a duvet on ebay, what would one put it on to photograph it?
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 17:39
by Woo Elephant Yeah
Your right about that card being better, but the big question is how good is your PSU?
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 17:50
by MIkkyo
FatherJack wrote:If one was selling a duvet on ebay, what would one put it on to photograph it?
Personally a bannana hammock and make sure I appeared in the reflection of a mirror
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 17:53
by bomberesque
lord preserve me I paid too much for my 6200
*shrugs*
anyway, if you want to be a bit pikey, how about
this one it's on spechil n evryfink
Guess it's a bit shitter than your second choice, but blimey cheap, or is there a good reason for this (like it's pants)?
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 18:01
by amblin
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Posted: March 20th, 2007, 18:12
by bomberesque
amblin wrote:The memory and clock speeds on that 7800 are much lower (almost half!), plus it has half the memory. Half the pixel pipes too unless I'm confused and shaders aren't pipes. So half the card - half the price.
Well, not really
Clock = 500 against 375 (75%)
Mem = 512 against 256 (50%)
Mem speed = 1400 against 1200 (85%)
pipes (whatever they are) = 20 against 16 (80%)
Price Ex VAT= 175 against 60 (35%)
So that would be 75% of the card for 35% of the price, unless I miss my guess. I guess the memory loss is probably the biggest failing, also the brand may be some sort of GFX card-board or something
Of course, vfm is a bit of a misnomer when buying stuff to better play computer games with I suppose
. Still for an AGP (I have AGP still aswell) that Overclockers bargain bin may have something worthwhile
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 18:26
by amblin
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Posted: March 20th, 2007, 18:45
by bomberesque
Fair enough
I hadn't realised that there was such a spec difference between the 2 cards you had posted originally actually...
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 18:46
by cheeseandham
I've got some 478's on top of our whiteboard... Don't think you want them though
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 18:54
by amblin
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Posted: March 20th, 2007, 19:24
by FatherJack
I have a 2.6G and 3G 478 P4s, but both sadly in machines I'm still using. Saw a 3G for £60 on ebuyer, 3.2Gs from around £130, but the 3.4Gs go for over £200.
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 20:06
by mrbobbins
I will probably be selling my virtually brand new 7800 GS when I upgrade to a new PC in the next couple of weeks.
Not sure how much they're worth second hand now that the x1950's are about.
Posted: March 20th, 2007, 21:36
by Dog Pants
cheeseandham wrote:I've got some 478's on top of our whiteboard... Don't think you want them though
Hehe, HDD magnets - holding crap onto whiteboards in IT offices since 1980.
Posted: March 21st, 2007, 12:49
by cheeseandham
Dog Pants wrote:Hehe, HDD magnets - holding crap onto whiteboards in IT offices since 1980.
I did kind of wonder if anyone would notice those, but Dog Pants, you made me seriously lmao when you put it like that.
Posted: March 21st, 2007, 16:40
by deject
those magnets are powerful motherfuckers. I read once that if you get a couple of those types of magnets that are big enough (say a few cubic cm big) and let them snap together they can crush your hand and take off fingers.
Posted: March 21st, 2007, 17:47
by Dog Pants
They can certainly cause a nasty blood blister, I know that. We used to occasionally destroy our - security or just vandalism, I know not why. It has left quite a lot of them around though, especially in our little box of screws and bits.