I am a big fan of GTA games and want to play GTA 4 in high settings. Just wondering which graphics card will be suitable for this game? I have Intel Core2 Quad Processor and 4GB RAM. I read somewhere that I need at least Nvidia 300 series graphics card. Can anyone confirm me this? I gonna check...

Hello, I just saw a dutch technician mention the following possibility of damaging a motherboard when cleaning the PC of dust and I wonder if there is any thruth in it, in short the technician writes the following: "Be carefull not to make the fans spin real fast because then they could start...

My GeForce 8800GT seems very hot! The fan is working fine on it but it still seems very hot. What is the normal running temperature of this card?

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Ok gurus need a little help OEM8800GTS dying and would prefer a single slot 9 inch card Seems the 9800GT would be closest to buy. What's a good brand/manufacturer? Really not familiar with any of them. If I have to get dual slot then please also recommend

I have the opportunity to replace an older nVida GeForce 8800GT video card with a new nVidia GTX470. Is there a website or other source where I can predict what type of improvement I should expect in Cuda-based processing. I am specifically interested in knowing how video rendering programs like...

Hello Everyone. i have a FujitzuSiemens Notebook Amilo Xi 3650 with two Graphic cards: - A NVIDIA Geforce 9600M GT, and - A Mobile Intel(45) Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1 I recently installed Windows 7 Home Edition, and discovered a serious problem: After the...

Hello, The RGB color space does not contain/display all colors we humans see in reality... In reality we humans see more colors in real-life than our monitors can display. I was wondering if nvidia is researching graphics cards and/or monitor which try to display "realistic colors" ?!?

This is a question for anyone running Win XP, Flash 10.1, and a geforce 210, 220, or 240. When playing Flash videos on the web, when you adjust the sharpness and turn the dynamic contrast on and off in the control panel, does that show up in the video? Thanks much. -- Ed Light

If you're currently looking at a gtx470/radeon5870 class card, take a gander at the MSI N465GTX Twin Frozr II Golden Edition. This card is marketed as a gtx465, but the hardware itself is a 470, and just needs a simple bios flash. NCIX is even doing the flash themselves and selling it as a...

Hi. I mostly use a laptop these days but have a desktop that's running a C2Q9550 that now serves mainly as a server I guess, having 3TB of storage I back the laptops up to it. It was running a 7800GT / 256MB GDDR3 but it seems that the card is now dead. I need a replacement. Also, sometimes I...

Hi, I just installed Linux on my old PC and I would like to share my new monitor between this old PC and my new one (new monitor has a DVI & VGA connector). My new PC has only a VGA connector, so that leaves DVI for the old one. The old PC has an add on NVIDIA GeForce256 card (with a whopping 32...

Ok, I just finished playing a protoss skirmish game with 8 other hard ai players and I totally won it. I build lot's of defensive cannons to survive being double teamed... after that it was easy (on the 8 star map...) There was a choking point so maybe the map a bit too easy but ok.

Hello Guys Boys and Girls LOL. IIIEEEEEEEEE **** I am excited ! ;) :) I just installed SC2ALLin1 v10.3.3 (Starcraft 2 Launcher tool). And installed retail map games which can be downloaded too. It was quite a cool experience... the icons for the files become green...

There seems to be a big discussion going on about the latest and greatest game called: "Starcraft 2 Wing of Liberty" Some people are stupid enough to play it on their laptops lol... with result fried chips ?! ;)...

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yoooooooo ! ;) :) Oh man... I just finished playing through some of the tutorials and levels/missions of Starcraft 2 "wings of liberty" ! ;) :) And man... is this a great game ! I had my doubts about the game... but it's not really about the game... it's about the whole...

Does Nvidia have a tool to remove their display adaptor software completely so I can do a CLEAN install of the latest drivers? Zone alarm has a tool that removes ALL of it's software from your system, so I was wondering if Nvidia does the same. TIA.

(See below for "massive parallel lookup hardware idea, inspired by the old vga cards") (The idea is: instead of writing lookups to the graphics card/video memory/monitor... the lookups become available to the cpu/applications). There might be a way to do what I want with performance benefits all...

Hello, Today Apple "released" the iPhone 4.0... I believe it has something like a 1.0 GHz processor... I find that quite impressive, 1.0 GHz in such a small package and non-overheating ??? Maybe to good to be true ?

ALSO: Depending on the video, I am seeing an occasional "rolling raster", a tear that moves slowly from the bottom of the screen to the top. Thanks much for your input. -- Steve "Steve" wrote in message news:... I have a Dell e1705 laptop with a Geforce Go7900GS 256MB card. ...