Recent content by Robbie1687

Thanks for the answers. I haven't decided what to do yet, but this info will help a lot.

Dell doesn't say in the manual but I have a Dell 8400 too so I opened it and looked. I hope the power supplies are the same. Two 12 volt rails, 18 amps each, max 336 watts combined. The manual says the machine can take up to a 75 watt card without an additional fan..

I want to buy a video card for a friend with a four-year-old Dell Dimension 8400 that has a 350 watt power supply and one PCIE x 16 slot. (She can't put a new power supply in.) What's the best card I can get for her?

NEC replied to my question yesterday. Here's what they said: "Thank you for writing. Rapid Motion is our trademark name for response times fast enough for full motion video. The frame buffer is still used. The only products that have the feature called "film mode" allowing you to bypass...

Thanks. Dunan, would you buy it again? I just noticed that some of NEC's sales info says the monitor has a feature called Rapid Response that consists of Rapid Motion and overdrive, which implies that Rapid Motion and overdrive are two different things. But the main info for the 2490 on...

I'm thinking of buying a NEC 2490 but am hesitating because of concerns about input lag. But I just noticed that according to NEC's sales literature, this display allows you to enable something called "Rapid Motion" which "bypasses frame memory altogether." I'm not sure what this means, but...