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Offline Si

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Re: Vista?
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2007, 09:15:03 AM »
I have two 8600's linked via sli
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Re: Vista?
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2007, 09:19:07 AM »
Si, is linking two worth the dosh?
I need to upgrade mine and was considering going down that route.
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Re: Vista?
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2007, 09:42:42 AM »
probably not Kev, but at the time it was cheaper to buy two 8600s than one 8800. The motherboard I bought has equal bandwidth on the PCI-E buses for each card so there was less chance of bottle necks and  I was curious to see it working too if Im totally honest.  :)

I did have some stability issues were it ran Guild Wars at nearly 200 fps but the thing kept crashing - it now runs at a very dull 60 -70 but very stable now.  Me deciding on Vista 64 as my operating system of choice probably didn't help my stability issues either. 

The likes of ET:Quake Wars runs like a dream - the only time I get slowdown is when I get lag but I'm looking forward to seeing how my pc copes with CoD4.  It better run graphics as good as the 360 or I'll be sueing Nividia and AMD - it should be a good test for the system anyhow.

 I think you won't have too many problems if you play modern games Kev, but the older ones may not know how to deal with two cards correctly (I guess similar to older games only using one of your processor cores). 

Eventually I guess I'll drop two 8800s in there at some point, but not anytime soon :)
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Re: Vista?
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2007, 11:42:35 AM »
Yeah I was looking into linking two 8800s, but many moons ago I had a couple of linked Voodoo3 cards (remember them?)
installed and found that 2 x 1 = 1.5 approx, if u know what I mean, so I was a bit dubious about linking 2 x 8800s.
The cost is pretty prohibitive too, but it seems you need that sort of processing power to run the latest
cutting edge Valve or ID gameware with any hope of future proofing.
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Re: Vista?
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2007, 11:44:21 AM »
Office 2007 and Vista?

We recently handed out laptops for our teachers, all vista and office 2007.  It is a bit different, especially office.  We gave the teachers a quick guide to help http://www.sciencepebbles.com/vista guide.pdf

Some minor issues that have been cropping up are things like not teachers having the right broadband drivers etc.

Also, secuity keeps asking for admin password for lots of things so it was easier just to make teachers admin accounts.
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