Doom-Child Posted December 3, 2001 Well, I run a GeForce3 on a Thunderbird (under XP), and I've had no problems, except from loading unreleased drivers, which is my own damn fault. As to whether deadnail's problem is universal, I don't think so. It's pretty rare for this kind of thing to happen, no matter how pissed off someone gets when it does. I think the GeForce series are great cards, and if you stick to spec drivers until they get this Detonator kick out of their system, you should be alright. DC 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted December 3, 2001 We're gonna load XP, but if nVidia are still struggling with it it'll have to be a different card.Then don't load XP. That's a horrible reason to negate good hardware. 0 Share this post Link to post
Katarhyne Posted December 4, 2001 Eh. Nvidia's drivers suck under XP, ATI's drivers suck, and PowerVR isn't compatible with everything. The answer? Wait for BITBOYS, OY! (joke) 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted December 5, 2001 Don't load XP? To be honest, I hadn't thought of loading anything else but you've got me thinking. There's a lot I don't know about the newer OS's, as I'm still on 98 over here. I heard people bitch about ME so I guess I just didn't even consider it, which was probably dumb, but there we are. So AMD are saying Quantispeeed is roughly 20% faster than an equivalent Pentium on XP... can anyone comment on this? A few suggestion regarding favoured motherboards would be good too... 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted December 5, 2001 well then, here's another idea... Fly/drive/walk to Washington, grab Gates by his fat head, and begin to bash it against the sidewalk very hard--until the white meat shows... Pick at his brain for awhile, until you find the source-code for XP, put it on one of those nifty DNA disks and extract the GF2/mx drivers it loads and replace 'em with the ones off of your manufacture's CD. That should fix everything...oh and don't worry about the mess, no one will notice :) lol, and I just realised I spelt Deady a while back not deady so I'll apologise before Deadnail has a chance to point it out... :> 0 Share this post Link to post
Katarhyne Posted December 5, 2001 In given floating-point (games and scientific) operations, the Athlon is up to 3 times faster than the P4. However, the P4 has much more available memory bandwidth. The Athlon has a much higher IPC (instructions per cycle), the P4 has a much higher clock rate. They're about equivalent if you take AMD's ratings and tack on another 300Mhz. Thus, a 1900+ is about as fast as a 2200Mhz P4. (yes, I've tested it) 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted December 5, 2001 I just got a gigantic baggie of weed. Right now I couldn't care less if IBM released a 4ghz processor and nVidia actually released functional drivers. ;] 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted December 5, 2001 gigantic How gigantic? If it's big enough I'm coming to visit you =) 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted December 5, 2001 gigantic How gigantic? If it's big enough I'm coming to visit you =) 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted December 5, 2001 How gigantic? If it's big enough I'm coming to visit you =)His bags of weed are never big enough to share ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted December 5, 2001 lol, and I just realised I spelt Deady a while back not deady so I'll apologise before Deadnail has a chance to point it out... :> My God, I actually did it AGAIN. Deadnail, not deadnail. Right, I will now write it out five times... deadnail deadnail deadnail deadnail deadnail good. Now don't get it wrong again, and stop talking to yourself in the forums 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted December 6, 2001 Stphrz, if you were coming to visit I'd buy the best fucking cronic on the East Coast for you. =) By gigantic I meant I got the phattest fucking quarter I've ever seen. I could crack walnuts with this motherfucker! =))))))))) 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted December 6, 2001 how much is a quarter where you're at? Over here it's like £15 for dried, but that sucks. £25 for the good shit. That's abnout $40 I guess 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted December 6, 2001 We paid thirty for it, Captain Inquisitor. 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted December 6, 2001 Kat: what do you mean you can't change SoundFonts? 0 Share this post Link to post
Katarhyne Posted December 6, 2001 * Katarhyne blushes. Uh, I figured it out. I had to go get the Audigy driver update (?) before it would let me change. Dunno, s'WinXP gayness, methinks. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted December 6, 2001 We paid thirty for it, Captain Inquisitor. fuckin' hell, must everything be cheaper on your side of the puddle... /goes off to make a bomb with a 3 gallon drinks machine canister... ...*stoned like a Jew in Kandahar*... 0 Share this post Link to post
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