Recent content by jnelso99

Agreed. Any brightness above the lowest is blinding. Related to that, I have one of these hooked up to my monitor: http://www.doubleed.com/ and took some readings to compare to my old 19" CRT. Power usage when the monitor is off went from 2.6W to about 0.7W. My CRT read about 80W during...

If I might butt in and make a small suggestion... It would probably be a good idea to not use a lossy format like jpg to use in these shots of the monitor screens. It would be more difficult to see what is banding by the monitor and what is banding by compression artifacts. I'd use...

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not sure about the AGP 2.0 compatibility of "all 6800GTs" as the Gigabyte manual explicitly states "One available AGP3.0 compliant slot or better" as a requirement. No biggee, as I took a closer look on the eVGA forums and it looks like they work with AGP 2.0...

Hi - I have just a (hopefully) easy question about upgrading an older system. I have a P4 2.4GHz, Abit TH7II-RAID, 1GB RDRAM system currently with a Leadtek Ti4600 card. I would like to upgrade that card to whatever I can get for $300, give or take. I've been looking at 6800GT's on Newegg...