Cheap Video Card...

CaptainHaplo · 02-16-12, 12:29 PM

You could also get 2 512mb sticks - it would likely be cheaper - and would add up to the max 3G that xp can use.

ReallyDedPoet · 02-16-12, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

You could also get 2 512mb sticks - it would likely be cheaper - and would add up to the max 3G that xp can use.

I'll try that. No way of changing XP to see more is there?

Edit: Just placed the order. The VC and the ram, the latter was only 35.00, so I got the two. No big deal.

Thanks lads

AVGWarhawk · 02-16-12, 01:17 PM

I see no reason you could not get another 2 years out of your billy goat. I still have my emachine 550 my girls play games on. Same rig I played SH4 on without issue. Works just fine and will for a few more years. I think I got it in 2003. The machine does not have quite the power your machine does. All the same, very lively and worth keeping until it absolutely does not play a darn thing.

ReallyDedPoet · 02-16-12, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I see no reason you could not get another 2 years out of your billy goat. I still have my emachine 550 my girls play games on. Same rig I played SH4 on without issue. Works just fine and will for a few more years. I think I got it in 2003. The machine does not have quite the power your machine does. All the same, very lively and worth keeping until it absolutely does not play a darn thing.

Yeah, I agree.

ReallyDedPoet · 02-16-12, 02:10 PM

Just as a footnote. I will be putting 3, 1 gig sticks in, I have 4 slots to do this. Any particular way they should go in?

AVGWarhawk · 02-16-12, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

Just as a footnote. I will be putting 3, 1 gig sticks in, I have 4 slots to do this. Any particular way they should go in?

Shiny side towards the board.

Sorry. Use the two slots already in use and add the third to the slot next in the row of slots.

ReallyDedPoet · 02-16-12, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Shiny side towards the board.

Sorry. Use the two slots already in use and add the third to the slot next in the row of slots.

For some reason existing ones are in first
and third ones. The second and fourth are
empty.

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