Hello, also David :) On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
David Haller wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Mike wrote: [..]
even with high demand. It's the same for graphic cards too. One of my older AGP cards didn't even have a fan.
The video card displaying this mail right now does not even have a cooler, much less a fan.
The card I took out only had a small chunk of aluminum over the chip... I ^^ you're missing something there ... rather liked the way it sounded.
Aye. Now consider, that mine has a much better analog signal quality than most other (newer) cards, at the moment it does 1152x864 @ 106 Hz totally sharp. Could do at least 1600x1200 @ 85 Hz, IIRC with a meager 4 MB SGRAM. But my monitor is only 17" and could do more than 1280x960, but would probably lose sharpness above that. Oh, the card is >13 years old by now :) I wonder what the price for such cards is, I'd guess it's either ridiculously low or insanly high... I know that the later models of that card are quite pricey. And, having both that 17" CRT and a (<2 years old) 17" TFT on my desk, I still prefer the CRT. It's pretty dark lately and sadly (well, it's over 8 years old now, I think[1]). And it's quite hard to find a decent TFT anyways, I've yet to find a TFT that is to my likes (i.e. not-TN (but IPS/MVA etc. panel), 4:3 aspect, >=96 dpi (i.e. not 1280x1024 pixels on 19"[2]). It's supposed to be an improvement on my old CRT, is it not? And that sets a crisp 864 pixels height (on the viewable height of a 15" TFT!) as the minimum ;) and within budget. EIZO does some nice models, but those fitting my needs (not to speak of my likes) are out of budget. The 17" TFT on my desk is a compromise[3] (e.g. TN, 5:4 aspect), with which I'm not really happy, but at least I don't get headaches from it. It's an ok TFT I guess. *very big sigh* Recommendations (CRT & TFT) are welcome. Here or as PM. My CRT probably won't last another 8 years ... -dnh [1] tells you something about the quality of it, that it's just a bit dark now, doesn't it? [2] I "almost" see individual pixels on the 17" 1280x1024 TFT, anything coarser is just not acceptable. [3] same manufacturer as my CRT -- Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. -- dima -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org