The old card with the new card in his arms
By gum, that’s a big-ass video card. It fit in the case, just. For an awful moment, I thought I didn’t have the right power connector — the old one had two banks of six pins, and this one had a bank of six and a bank of eight — but I found that my old power supply had an extra two pin connector zip-tied to the cable for just such an eventuality.
‘Scuse me, I’m off to play the Witcher Wild Hunt, with that last bit of new DLC.
Oh, by the way, I haven’t disabled the rating system, it’s just not working somehow. I started to hunt down the problem and fix it, but I’m kind of torn. On the one hand, I really liked being able to rate comments, but on the other hand I didn’t think this particular widget was very good. Sometimes I had to refresh the page before my vote would take, and the rating thingie popped up at unwanted times sometimes.
Did y’all have problems with it, too?
Posted: July 13th, 2016 under computer graphics, personal, technology.
Comments: 9
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Comment from QuasiModo
Time: July 13, 2016, 8:26 pm
The comment system was fun at the beginning but I just tuned it out after a while.
That is a kickass looking graphics card…happy gaming!
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: July 13, 2016, 8:29 pm
*Ahem* … Since you asked an opinion:
A) I liked the idea of a comment-rating system, mainly because many of the comments are really quite on-point, informative, and generally kick-ass.
B) I found the now-defunct system to be a little irritating from time to time because it popped up or got in the way when … well … when I didn’t want it to.
C) I’ve consciously enjoyed the absence of the now-defunct system, because of B, above.
D) I don’t wish for you to expend any effort fixing the old one. Rather, I would prefer that you casually – as you’re meandering on the byways and highways of the inter-web-thingy-net – discover a better system. You know, in the fullness of time … more or less. Maybe. Perhaps.
E) I still think that card-thingy is a hovercraft in drag, or sumpin.
Comment from Janna
Time: July 13, 2016, 8:54 pm
How goes the electric bike? You back to zipping around Ye Ole neighborhood?
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: July 13, 2016, 11:05 pm
It seems Obama and lefty brits are having a hissy fit over the appointment of Boris as foreign secretary. LOL
Comment from peacelovewoodstock
Time: July 14, 2016, 2:24 am
Maybe you can configure it to mine Bitcoins or something while you aren’t otherwise using it!
Comment from Mitchell
Time: July 14, 2016, 4:25 am
That is a big card. Just looked at mine and it’s only a GTX 670. Now I have video card envy.
Comment from Nina
Time: July 14, 2016, 5:13 am
The rating system can be fun, but not worth taking up chikkin posts to deal with it!
Comment from tomfrompv
Time: July 14, 2016, 7:35 am
And…Lady May created a brand new post — Ministry of Brexit.
Confused yet again. How can she do that? Isn’t there some kind of oversight by somebody? I mean, she can reward all her BFFs with their very own made-up Ministry. Its getting weird again.
BTW, do the fans speed up and slow down depending on the complexity of the display? Does it heat the house?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 14, 2016, 3:14 pm
I’m still having issues, Janna. I’ve got it going, but I have to turn it off and on several times before it lights up. Clearly a short somewhere. I’ll have to get it sorted while it’s still under warranty.
Yep, Tom, it’s like choosing sides for kickball; they can pick who they want. I suppose the POTUS does, too, with his cabinet.
The card is relatively quiet until I kick up something punishing, like The Witcher with all the graphics sliders turned up to Ultra. The it sounds like a 747 taking off. I don’t hear it over the sound of slashing nekkers, but I feel bad for Uncle B. The sound drives him crazy. At least it’s not as high-pitched as the old card.
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