Elder state? Fair enough. OK, some folks can afford huge 8 gig whatever's and boards from places that may or may not have existed in 1990, and don't forget the wireless mouse. (couldn't figure the thing out when it hit the market with a wire and ball), but from where I sit I like "RED". After a certain "Elder state" set in and I had time for hobbies, I bought one, Dell Latitude Cpi Pentium II , Windows 95. Had a lot more internet than the ones I had used in the hospital, send orders to the pharmacy, admit records to the floors from the ER. Then SETI came along. It has been and still is a learning experience-but I don't know enough, probably never will know enough. Eventually, as I am, I wanted to know how things worked. Finally I found out what all the fuss was about video cards. I had a card that was just huge, had a laugh when I read the type-I can't remember it was so long ago, but the PC ran better and faster, then AGP and those lovely VIA and Pegatron boards. I still have a couple of them laying around, AGP's.
So we decided to build a pair, the twins, and we spent a little money. The wife built her first one just about the same as I did, the not so free parts, and eventually had what we wanted, GPU and all. Now days a $10.00 USD used card is pretty spendy, but what others think is no good, Oland 2 gig, Cape Verde 1 gig, etc. I find just fine for doin what I'm doin. They'll be in a card's box from the upgrade, they still work, I never found one that didn't work. And yes, frame rates mean something to me as do shaders and unified cores. AMD. "Built on AMD Architecture". Have seen it in so many print outs, it means something to someone-especially when Bentell uses it, I always see it in there some where. AMD is fine enough. I pulled a part of the info from this everyday klunker, (it's a Hardly Possible, Pavillion dv9000) so bear with me as it is in text form, you know that works:
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS 2
OS Windows_NT
Path C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime Alternative\QTSystem;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime Alternative\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared
PATHEXT .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE x86
PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 AMD64 <---**HERE**
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel, ,,
PROCESSOR_LEVEL 6
PROCESSOR_REVISION 0f0a
RED, have a pile of green things that usually are handed down from friends when they go buy the "Next new release from nVidia": 9500GT,9800GT, an N740 2gig, all run, all always crave attention, always want the next PhysX, CUDA tools, or that one even wanted full control over board/ RAM/chip set/ CPU, and a driver for finding new drivers to try to get another driver..my first wife was like that, always craving attention... Just clock from the bios, install the driver and CCC if you want and sit back and it does what it's supposed to: Oland 2 gig, it set even at 1200 mem and 1200 core, benched it some where and that's what they said too. But then this is just a hobby and it's supposed to be fun, and fun usually don't cost $400.00 and get water cooled either, hmmmm.... well, maybe somewhere it does, and probably not even PC related if ya know what I mean. Sorry so long winded, don't never have much to say except once in a while I do.............................