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Re: Kling's Christmas Card [message #57519 is a reply to message #57467]

Mon, 10 December 2007 10:50

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Rick Towler writes:

> Oh boy. By the time you are done with this upgrade you would have been
> able to buy a shiny new Dell!

Yeah, well, the upgrade (without a new power supply, see below) has
been less than $500, leaving me a little cash to buy a new laptop.
My choice is between a fully tricked out DELL with a 17-inch flat-panel
monitor for my wife's pitiful machine thrown in, for $2300, or a
similarly equipped Mac, with no extra monitor, for $3800. (Yep, no
brainer, at least according to my wife.)

> Given this restriction, how about this:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814136 008

Alas, I ordered the XFX GeForce 7600 XT. I hope the power supply
doesn't blow the day I install it. :-(

> I'm sure it is a fine card and will display Ronn's card acceptably. Let
> me also introduce you to the "egg". May you never spend $240 on a
> memory upgrade again.

Actually, the "egg" is where I got the memory. Apple wanted to
charge me $700 for the same thing to provide the equivalent
amount of memory on the laptop.

> If you do upgrade your card, download and install the latest drivers
> from www.nvidia.com (for windows).

Roger, that. I've got the install thing just about sorted now.
I even know how to crawl around under my desk and inside my
machine. Ask me about that sometime. :-(

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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