Compromise

[pasithea]

So.. I've been thinking about upgrading my computer quite a lot the past few months but the truth of the matter is that while I slow it down a little bit when doing really complex stuff in Photoshop or Illustrator, it really doesn't slow down enough to justify an upgrade. Honestly, SecondLife has been the main drive for wanting a faster computer. The bottleneck on SL, of course isn't processor speed, it's video card. The laptop I was given from work has a Radeon 9800 w/128M RAM and it's considerably faster than my desktop, so... Obvious compromise! I bought a Radeon 9800 w/256M RAM for my desktop (The absolute most powerful video card produced for the G4s) This should be a good compromise. We'll see when it arrives. :) My current card is a GeForce 4 MX with 64M RAM so this is a pretty good step up.

Comments

[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh! I had one of those. A 9800 pro, with the same amount of ram. O.O Although it was for windows, and not a G4. ^.^;

I loved it, for the few weeks I had it. Worked wonderfull, even running at 2x agp in a slow as heck system.

...then I tried to upgrade it's rather minimalistic heatsink and scratched one of the circut traces. -.- Took it back and, after being frustrated that there were like, zero remaining in stock, upgraded to a radeon x800xl. O.o Lots more money, and so far I havn't really needed the extra power. ^^;
Anyhow, random story from me. ^^; Mew?
*hughug*

[furrysaint.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooh. Nice. O_o Hey, if you're not gonna be using that old video card... >_> <_< ^_-