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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/22 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 68,150 points 02: marysduby - 59,914 points 03: Coingames - 32,549 points 04: parmesian - 26,919 points 05: NiceMedTexMD - 22,222 points 06: Dave Bell - 18,612 points 07: brown chris - 17,839 points 08: Blueprint - 12,769 points 09: Dresser - 11,584 points 10: keithhenry - 11,014 points 11: sulcata - 5,326 points 12: harry_i_c - 5,245 points 13: Esteban69 - 4,784 points 14: Jonathan Figdor - 4,660 points 15: Vuj - 4,640 points 16: frans6nl - 3,367 points 17: Sunny L. Kae - 2,339 points 18: darth_vader - 2,247 points 19: Tomwp - 2,103 points 20: wrr - 1,892 points Total points returned today: 334,789 Active members returning points today: 36 Average points per member active today: 9,299.69444 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.......CONGRATULATIONS keithhenry ON REACHING 8,000,000 MOT POINTS !!....... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.......CONGRATULATIONS NiceMedTexMD ON REACHING 2,500,000 MOT POINTS !!....... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Howdy MOT'ers..  Question: Let's say I would like to buy a graphics card to upgrade my computer. How do I know if the one I buy will fit/work in my computer? Dr. Mike Well, since I know very little myself about configuring a custom machine on my own, putting myself in your shoes, I would: 1) Call the phone number for the computer maker's sales group and ask them which graphics card I could upgrade to (theirs and third party) 2) If there's a separate tech support number, repeat the above with them. 3) If the sales folks give you good info, some of the below will confirm that. If not, you've learned some valuable info about that brand (don't trust their sales group). Tech support, if separate, is more likely to give you good info, especially about any third party cards (to the extent they have that info) since they have less of a direct interest in pushing their specific cards than sales. 4) If you're looking at a particular third party brand of graphics cards (someone that doesn't supply the original graphics card to the computer maker), call them and ask about which of their cards are compatible with your machine. 5) Take all the info you get from the above and see if you're getting consistent information and if not, look at who's different. In 1 and 4, be sure to also ask about what kind of support they provide if you have trouble installing the card when you receive it/have trouble understanding the instructions that come with it/what their return policy is. 6) If you're still not confortable enough to commit to a particular card for your upgrade, get unrelated third party opinions. Ask here, ask in other forums/b-boards/computer help sites. To start, you should decide what sort of graphics card you want. The low end cards are small and do not require much power. It's almost certain that they will work in whatever system you want to put them in so long as it's not an ancient system. If you want to do any GPU crunching, then you will need to get a card with one of the nVidia chip sets and the low end cards will not be fast enough to return results in the allotted time. For a good summary of how fast the various cards are, you can look at this chart at Tom's hardware. (You may also be interested in reading the entire article that is associated with that chart.) You can use the chart to see how high you want to aim performance-wise. The cards at the very top of the chart get expensive rapidly. If you want to do GPU crunching, choose a 9800 or faster card. A lot of people seem to find the GTX 260 is a good choice between performance and cost. Now for will it fit / will it work.... - I assume you are running an XP or Vista system and you've been good about keeping up with the updates. If you have not, then put the updates on. This will ensure that you do not have compatability problems with the drivers for whatever card you get. - Be sure it will physically fit in the case. Some graphics cards are fairly large. If you have a normal tower case, it will probably fit. Check that there are no obstructions near the expansion slot which brings us to .... - Check that you have the right sort of expansion slot available on your system. In this image you can see the sort of connector at the bottom edge of the card (PCI-E x16). Also, most of the upper end cards take the space of two expansion slots because they use one to push the exhaust air from the fan(s) directly out of the case (this is a good thing). Odds are that any relatively recent desktop will have at least one of these slots. Make sure that the slot next to it is open or that if the slot is occupied that you can move the card to another slot. - Ensure your power supply can handle the card. For most of the upper end cards, a 400 watt power supply (or more) is recommended. If your power supply does not have a sticker on the back with its rating, then you can probably see one on one of the sides of the power supply if you open the case. - Check that your power supply has the right connector for your graphics card. Most of the cards use either at 4-pin or 6-pin power connector in addition to the power they draw from the expansion slot. - Most of the upper end graphics cards use DVI connectors to connect to the display. If your monitor only has a standard VGA connection, you will need an adapter. DVI connectors are almost always white. VGA connectors are almost always blue. Many newer monitors (say 2-3 years or newer) will accept both. Let us know if you still have more questions. - D Ask and ye shall receive.... |
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Dataman
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, we have YET ANOTHER problem with the stat updates. This is REALLY getting old.
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NiceMedTexMD
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Post Count: 929 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, we have YET ANOTHER problem with the stat updates. This is REALLY getting old. Agreed.. guess we just have to wait and see..  Dr. Mike..  |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, while on vacation, Kevin peeked in on things and saw there was a problem. He's fixing now so may not be too long...or more of can I stay awake that much longer.
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/23 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== RT reached 18,500,000 points  Runtime milestones report ========================= No runtime milestones found.  Results returned milestones report ================================== RT returned their 45,000th result New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522 Points: 05/06/2009 518,871 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!! |
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