Taking a forced break from Quake...

[foq]

Yeah, that's right.

My uncle sold this system to me for $120:
AMD Athlon64 x2 5200+
DFI LANPARTY 590SLI
ATi x1800XL w/ special cooling
250GB SATA 3Gb/sec
Thermaltake full-tower case

The video card (x1800XL) artifacts mildly. But I have found that in some games, suprisingly even our own Quake artifact wildly.

I would have it fixed by overvolting the core with a program called ATiTool (an overclocker's tool for ATi users), but for some unknown reason having it open in the background locks up my system shortly after going into a 3D app... so I can't use that

Bottom line is, I will be getting a new video card, probably not until Christmas when I can get one for free... nothing too fancy.

So you'll see me around the forums and all, just not in-game.

[rudl]

120$
That's not very much
Why does he give that system away?

[Phenom]

lol jk...lol jk

[foq]

120$
That's not very much
Why does he give that system away?

Cause he's my uncle??
lol the processor alone is worth that much or more

[rudl]

Sorry, for my stupid question. The next one my be stupid too:
Does your computer have a onboard gfx-card?
It should handle at least quake

[foq]

No it doesn't.

I may be able to fix it by flashing the BIOS to give it more Vcore.

[spooker]

tell him i will give him $122 for the system =p
also, be careful with those bios flashes, mine fucked up in the middle of the flash and i had to pay $100 to fix it. next time i am getting one of those boards with 2 bios chips

[foq]

I'm not flashing a motherboard, it's a video card. If something goes wrong I could just re-flash with the origional BIOS.

[RocketGuy]

If you break your graphics card how do you expect to see anything?
(not that I know anything about this, I'm not stupid enuff to try to flash a graphics card)

[foq]

If you break your graphics card how do you expect to see anything?

I don't, it's called blind flashing. Just because you can't see what you type doesn't mean it isn't there. Without seeing, I have to type this:
atiflash -f -s 0 origional.bin

[joao93]

You paid U$120? I fucking paid R$2,300 for almost all the stuff you mentioned and a little bit more...

[gamefreak]

Why not make some money and buy a video card yourself?

I just spent over $600 dollars in X-Box 360 wares by myself, and I made all that money in less than 5 months.

[foq]

What do you expect me to do, mow lawns? Labor laws in Ohio won't let me work until I am 16, and I live in an apartment complex so there are no homes around to mow.

[Baker]

I thought you were old skool and used WinQuake or wqpro as recently as 2 years ago, so your graphics card wouldn't matter.

[foq]

Yeah you're right, I feel stupid to forget about Winquake... I guess you may see me around then.