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PolarbearBigEd
Limp Gawd
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- Aug 26, 2003
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Geez! Why do I have to work with stupid ass morons. I work at Fry's here in Arlington, TX and I was helping a customer build a gaming machine. They picked up an AMD 64 3200+, A8N SLi mobo, Coolermaster stacker, XMS, all that stuff we are used to seeing. Unfortunately for me, the video cards are not in my deptartment. The customers and myself stroll over to the computer department where the video cards are at (I work in electronic components) and this 50 year old lady who "maintains" the video card isle told my customers without letting me speak that:
1) an ATi 9600XT AIW is faster than an ATi 9800Pro because the "core clock" is higher...wrong
2) an ATi X1800XL "requires" a crossfire motherboard to work (not to utilize crossfire technology, just that a motherboard "needs" the crossfire chipset to work)...stating it won't work in any motherboard with PCI express reguardless of what it is....wrong will work in any motherboard with a PCI express graphics slot
3) A Quadro graphics card is the only kind of video card that will work in a Linux based machine...wrong again
4) Referred to ATi's rendering methods as per pixel, not per frame (ATi's crossfire uses AFR = alternate frame rendering)... even more wrong
5) In order to get crossfire to work, you needed 2x X1800XT's or 2x X1800XL's...(um, it ain't SLi, or "SLY" as she calls it. Maybe I'll call I.B.M. and A.M.D. ibum and amduh. Oh did I fail to mention she said "nothing" about a oh I don't know....a MASTER CARD!)...geez this is getting rediculous.
I mean seriously. This granny is making the free world believe this crap? Damn I hate Fry's... but until the financial situation blows over...I'm stuck
Side note: We didn't have any 7800GT's, so I suggested the X1800XL. It was $369 after MIR vs. a 7800GTX which we did have for .....gulp....$599. Screw that. I know yada yada no SLi, but I told them they could probably sell it off online and get a 7800GT with some extra cash to swing another one utilizing the board SLi capabilities. They said that they wanted to play some games at high res now like HL2, BF2, FEAR etc with max eye candy turned on for a few months and get something else 9 months down the line. That whore tried to sell them a 6600LE so they could use "SLY"
1) an ATi 9600XT AIW is faster than an ATi 9800Pro because the "core clock" is higher...wrong
2) an ATi X1800XL "requires" a crossfire motherboard to work (not to utilize crossfire technology, just that a motherboard "needs" the crossfire chipset to work)...stating it won't work in any motherboard with PCI express reguardless of what it is....wrong will work in any motherboard with a PCI express graphics slot
3) A Quadro graphics card is the only kind of video card that will work in a Linux based machine...wrong again
4) Referred to ATi's rendering methods as per pixel, not per frame (ATi's crossfire uses AFR = alternate frame rendering)... even more wrong
5) In order to get crossfire to work, you needed 2x X1800XT's or 2x X1800XL's...(um, it ain't SLi, or "SLY" as she calls it. Maybe I'll call I.B.M. and A.M.D. ibum and amduh. Oh did I fail to mention she said "nothing" about a oh I don't know....a MASTER CARD!)...geez this is getting rediculous.
I mean seriously. This granny is making the free world believe this crap? Damn I hate Fry's... but until the financial situation blows over...I'm stuck
Side note: We didn't have any 7800GT's, so I suggested the X1800XL. It was $369 after MIR vs. a 7800GTX which we did have for .....gulp....$599. Screw that. I know yada yada no SLi, but I told them they could probably sell it off online and get a 7800GT with some extra cash to swing another one utilizing the board SLi capabilities. They said that they wanted to play some games at high res now like HL2, BF2, FEAR etc with max eye candy turned on for a few months and get something else 9 months down the line. That whore tried to sell them a 6600LE so they could use "SLY"
