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Any particular reason why you want the 800 XL instead of Nvidia's GeForce 7800?
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Yes, scaling of video overlays is better on the ATIs. Or at least it was a year or two ago. This is not important for the vast majority of people, of course.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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NVidia drivers, though, have separate controls for video overlay options, do ATIs have them? I don't have that much experience with new ATI card drivers.Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
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I use other tools to control the overlay in any event, so it doesn't matter to me. That said, I believe ATI has had those controls for quite a few years, even though the ATI drivers tend to suck.Last edited by DanS; July 13, 2005, 17:21.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Wow, that's some upgrade!!!Originally posted by DanS
Yes, it really is a whole new computer, but it will be done in steps as an upgrade.
My current computer is a Celeron 500, so as you can see, I used it a rather long time.
Go for a clean install, I know it's pain - just did one myself - but it is better.
Hate it when it takes weeks to (re)set all the little tweaks you make on a system and that you've forgotten.
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I agree with alva, if you are going to spend that amount of money on an upgrade, then you owe it to yourself to do it properly.Comment
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Maxtor's hard drive formatting utility includes drive copying functionality for exactly this purpose. I just used it two weeks ago because my old C: started clicking morbidly.Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.comComment
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I went with Seagate's update utility, which was basic, but still functional. As suggested, I ended up doing a clean install. Thanks for your help.
It's amazing to see video that dropped frames on my old machine top out at 8% of CPU resources.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That's why you want to get a clean install, you are getting a lot of gunk in there.Originally posted by DanS
My registry took a good deal of time to put together and I would like to keep it intact.
More reason to do so.Originally posted by DanS
I have swapped mobos (and back) before on this registry, so I am comfortable with the process.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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I feel your pain - I swapped the disk from my old machine to me new one ( totally new processor , motherboard , graphics card , etc - everything was new ) , and Windows XP crashed on me ( bluescreened at bootup ) . My installation of Fedora COre 3 , however , detected everything , asked my permission to configure it , and I was done . Had to reinstall XP .Comment
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