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Recent content by jwhyrock

  1. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    me too. So far so good. I'll keep this in mind though. Thx both!
  2. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    well messing with the BIOS settings in preparation for putting in a card I borrowed from a friend, seems to have fixed the problem. First setting that caught my eye was that it was set to PCI instead of Onboard. Not sure why it was set to PCI, but I changed to Onboard. There was another...
  3. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    Which store is that? It's all xxxxx. I doubt we have whatever it is in spokane, WA
  4. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    yeah that's about right. This is just a hunch that the problem is stemming from a shaky onboard video card driver. If the card doesn't fix the issue then it's something else and I blew $80. Or it fixes the issue and I save a massive headache and get a useable computer for my purposes until I...
  5. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    The 3870 may have more horsepower but it's a less efficient/sophisticated card. It seems to me anyway that for my immediate purposes the 6570 would be the better option. Yes a little more money but better for HTPC plus doesn't it have direct X11? I'm not looking for a gaming card yet. When I...
  6. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    The ATI HD 3870 256MB is a lot less powerful than the AMD 6570 right? My initial post was me trying to do my usual buy big now and future proof for later, but I kind of adopted my friend's perspective of why drop more now when I am very clearly not planning on doing PC gaming "yet". The...
  7. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    well to be honest it does happen while surfing online a lot. I don't play games at the moment and no minecraft. I enter a lot of contests so am bombarded with active websites a lot and that does seem to factor in. It freezes up when I alt-tab a lot for example, but it does not appear to be...
  8. J

    Desperately need help w/ getting new Video Card

    What video card should I get? First off my main problem right now is I have been getting "AMD driver failed" message after my screen freezes, turns black, then spits out the driver failed message. This has happened off and on since I put Windows 7 x64 on my computer. Yes I have uninstalled...
  9. J

    Samsung 226BW 22": 3000:1 Contrast, 2ms response time

    I just swapped my 204B Syncmaster out (20.1 in) for the 22 in 226BW that everyone is talking about. I went through the same uncertainty trying to figure out what is so bad about the "bad" ones and what is so good with the "S" panels. I was dreading picking it up (it was a direct swap from...
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