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Maybe get your credit card company/Paypal involved? If you can provide pics of the damaged box, and explain that you can't open it, lest AMD refuse to honor their warranty/return policy, it might help your cause.

So it sounds like you are doing the stay at home Dad thing then? If so, welcome to the club, done that for 10+ years, though only with one kid. :)

Great idea. To make it more realistic though, tape shut your refrigerator, and turn off all power (except to said refrigerator). :)

Okay, I see where you are coming from. I mistakenly assumed you were primarily using the GPU for gaming. :)

Don't feel bad, just move on to another hobby. Check back in on gaming in 6 months or a year. I'm stuck with an GTX 1050, but I've broken out the older games and reliving my prime video gaming days (early 2000s). Model rocket season is coming soon, so I'll be busier building those, and I can...

So those of us who aren't willing to sell a kidney to get a new video card ought to just find another hobby then, I guess. I have been playing my old school games since I just got back into video gaming after a 10+ year hiatus, and there's no way I am paying the going rate for a decent...

Think just in time inventory, and not wanting to keep any stock on hand because it might cost them some money. So probably not.

Are they going to include the necessary video card with the software, since it'll still probably be hard to get cards towards the end of the year. No sense in selling a game that hardly anyone has a video card that can run it.

I have to say I'm in that boat. I haven't FPS video gamed in a LONG time; last time I really played FPS games was about 2009 or so. Had a kid, drastic lifestyle changes, didn't really see video gaming as good use of my time, etc. Buiilt a rig back in 2018 for the boy to play Minecraft, got...

I haven't built a system in quite a while, and failed to notice that the I3 7350k processors don't ship with a heatsink/fan anymore. I am looking for an inexpensive heatsink/fan. I am using a Corsair 100R Silent case, Asus Prime H270 Plus motherboard, standard height RAM. I am NOT going to be...

I checked with Microsoft, and the activation servers are still up and running, so XP ought to activate alright.

It's an old custom build system, not from a manufacturer. So the old activation code is long gone with the disc. :( Many of the old games won't work on Win 7, else I'd just buy a copy of that. The motherboard won't work with Win 8. I don't download stuff from the Net much, especially not...

Hi. I am looking for an Windows XP retail installation disc. I have an computer, from the 2006 era that I play older games on. Well of course the hard drive finally failed, and I cannot locate the old disc/codes so I can reinstall XP. So I am left with trying to find an old XP copy that...

Okay, thanks for that info. :)

Given that I long ago sold off all the old equipment, and am mainly running on this relatively weak laptop, I am not sure how much I could contribute, even if I wished to again. I have an old secondary system that has a fairly modern video card installed (don't game much, but wanted limited...

Same here. Way too much llama drama with Vijay and 7im. Wife started to get cranky about the electric bills, and due to medical problems at the time, I needed the money for medical costs. I just popped in here to visit my old haunts. Doubt I will start Folding again. Just more for...

Hey, old member here too. I stopped Folding years ago after the fiasco with Pande and the old AMD graphics cards (first generation AMD graphics cards didn't prove useful for Folding, but Vijay basically told us to piss up a rope when we had issues with his handling of the whole thing). That...

Ok, wow, didn't realize the difference was that large. :)

Decided to look at ATI, and found an another option that might work as well: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129232 Thoughts? Slightly smaller power supply allowable (I have a 380w, 17A on the 12v rail), which looks better than the Nvidia's that want 20a on the...

Well the 4850 up and died, so baking it means what? The games I played back in 2006-2008 seemed to do okay with 2gb memory, and I don't want to put more money into this old system (7 years old) than I have to, as it's a secondary system that I game on once in a great while. I'm not planning...

I just had my old GPU up and die on me - an ATI Radeon 4850 HD. I need something inexpensive to replace it, but I haven't been keeping up with computer stuff in a few years, so I'm asking for advice as to what to get to replace it. I'm a middle-aged guy who doesn't have much time to play...

A shameless bump to keep such a classic from dying in the archives.

I guess I can reminisce a bit. I started in 2002 as I recall. The big thing was an AMD XP 1900, upgraded to an XP2700, started the process of borging and building extra systems with various bits and pieces...ended up with 8 systems at one point, and a whopping power bill. I'm glad to see...

Checking in after a long absence. Wow, things don't seem to have changed much with Stanford. Still a big case of raging egos and still taking the donors for granted. :( I saw discussion of FAH on another board, and it reminded me that I had not stopped in for quite some time. The boy is...

Thanks for the info on the uselessness of "game mode". I was thinking of replacing the 4850 not because it can't display 1080P, but that when I game and use the TV as a display, I suspect the framerate will just stink...have to mess with it to be sure of this. I've got a Q6600, 2gb memory, so...

The samsung display has "game mode", so I'll use that. I'll check out the DVI to HDMI converter, thank you. I may have to upgrade the video card as well; we'll see about that. Do any of the ATI cards have HDMI outputs?

I am looking for advice on the best way to attach my gaming computer to my new LED TV. I bought a Samsung UN46B7100 - it has 4 HDMI, and a PC VGA input. I'm working with a PC that has an ATI 4850 video card - 2 DVI and a S-video output. I am not sure what is the best way to connect - use a...

Hello. I'm considering buying a Samsung P3 16gb as a gift for my wife, and loading it up with her music, lots of pictures (1000+), and some high definition video from our camcorder. I'm trying to find out if this is going to be a workable project. So I have a couple questions: 1) I have a...

I did one back in 6th grade (about 1978) on Black Holes, with some related math, and only had help with the grammar parts of it (since my grammar was a bit weak). Guess what? Teachers decided that because my grades weren't A's (I was way smarter than said teachers and was truly bored - this was...

Oh sweet Jesus, here we go again. I prefer digital download so I can use the music how I want, with no DRM.

Those plates are packaged better than the hard drive I bought from Amazon. Arrived in a box with one lousy sheet of bubble wrap, and the box was all dented up. And of course their ad didn't say anything about it being an OEM drive.

Another device to help people escape reality and it's shittiness, instead of them dealing with the issues that make them unhappy in the first place. We need more pics of the blonde though.

There's this little thing called the Constitution and not allowing taxes/duties on items bought in another state...now if Newegg had a physical presence in NY, that's one thing, but since I bet they don't...

I actually had a solar rig setup for the Y2K scare - 300w of panels; enough to run my well pump, household water pressure, and a couple small lights. Cost me $5000+. Solar is not a cheap way to go. Yes you achieve energy/materials invested payback on the panels/mounts in about 4 years...

This is one of the big reasons I gave up on Folding. That and I didn't like the way the GPU1 client discontinuation was handled. I know the results weren't as useful as we had all hoped, but they really peed in my Cheerios the way they handled it. I now put the money into other things. I...

I don't consider myself a typical geek, and frankly, I watch very little TV anyways. Reasons include shit quality shows pandering to morons (lowest common denominator), "reality TV", incessant ads, half-seasons that are shown 6 months apart (and they wonder WHY people actually go out and get a...

I have my mail delivered to a private mailbox, and pick it up myself (wife doesn't care to go into town to get the mail basically). I park the car in the garage, unload said parts, bring into house later on. I basically said that I was great at scrounging some good deals from fellow Folders...

Update: The mother in law is still in JH, slowly improving. I have to say from what we've seen in our frequent visits to JH, that given a choice of hospitals, I wouldn't bring my cat into JH again, let alone a person. We've had some real horror stories to tell about that place. Such as...

That ATI 4850 is looking much more attractive. Thanks, NVIDIA for making my decision easier.

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