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#1 frost_mourne13
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My friend recently tried to update drivers for his X1950XTX from something like 6.8 to 7.6, but he gets a message that read's "Setup can not find a compatible driver for your hardware or operating system. Set up will now exit" Now he can't install any other drivers, even his previous old ones. He got the XP drivers too, so it shouldn't be a Vista issue. HOw do I help him? thanks, Frost
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#2 frost_mourne13
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Ok, then looks like I'm getting some new tubes for my 6505+

Yeah, might as well stop upgrading this computer, everything's "outdated"

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#3 frost_mourne13
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Wow, that's nice. 512/256 for $140?

Go for it man, and see your FPS shoot up like never before.

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It's everyone's favorite snowman here. lol. So I got like $100 from helping my mom's business, so I wanna upgrade my computer. I don't think I need a new graphics card, plus I can't get a better card than a 7900GS, which I already have. I was thinking of buying a X2 3800+ for like, $75 but I'm not sure how much of a gaming difference it will make. Should I go for it, or should I use that $100 for tube replacement on my amp, or save it for a new computer this fall?

BTW, if you don't have sig's enabled, my computer is

AMD Athlon 64 3800+
2GB DDR400 RAM
7900GS
Enough Fans
Maxtor 300GB SATA

Frost

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#5 frost_mourne13
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Antec 900, if you've got the money

Coolermaster Centurion 5 if you're on a tight budget

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2 of the new 1GB HD2900XT's I believe. Against two of the 768MB 8800GTX's. It's a relatively fair fight, as the Radeon Rig's Quad-Core is clocked 1/10 of a MHz slower, and the cards retail for, $489 each.

They should have done an AA test, which the HD2900 seems to be crappy on...

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1GB HD2900XT Crossfire beats 8800GTX SLI

Weird. But welcome news

I think they should have used more benchmarks...but hey, beating the 8800GTX by close to 100 fps is nothing to laught at.

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#9 frost_mourne13
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Yes yes yes. Best of the DX10 cards is much better than best of DX9

and stream processors are just another way of processing data

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#10 frost_mourne13
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No, it's just the 1GB version of the XT, I believe they scrapped the 80nm XTX...