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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Adrian Midgley wrote:
On 28 September 2011 13:10, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:So basically your PC is not working?Yep. Decided it is old. Replacing now.However you might want something that's not got on-board graphics if you're into gaming.I am in a maze of tiny games, all alike. Beware of Grues. I don't do that stuff much, although some of the current graphical shooter and team stuff is remarkable.
:) I play doom and just found oolite, which runs well.
For general office type stuff, I've found on-board graphics chips to be more than adequate. (for a £35 motherboard) That one above has an intel i950 chip on it and runs the monitor at 1920x1440 without any issues.That would be fine, but I do like having 2 screens, and with more speed and RAM maybe more. I'll stick my (not very) old graphics cards into something.
Make sure a new mobo has the right combination of pci/e slots then. (if building from scratch)
I do quite a lot of gimping.
Just needs resolution, not GPUness. GIMP runs just fine on my workstation. It's host PC CPU cycles that are used for most stuff - that I'm aware of, anyway - perhaps there are some really fancy plugins that will use a GPU, but I've no issues waiting a second or 2 for an unsharp operation to happen on a 5MP image.
Gordon
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