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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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3:54p - Flash! ahhh!
It saved me ~£100!
I'm totally dumbstruck.. Just flashed my previously bricked ATI Radeon 9600xt into A) working.. B) working in the PowerMac!
Previously whenever anything taxing happened the GPU fan would switch off. .. Now its working perfectly in a machine its not even supposed to work in at all. :D
When we/I got this machine it needed to run Photoshop etc.. And that still is what it does 90% of the time. 64MB video cards were acceptable then.. Not really anymore - Between the OS and other thing there's enough visual stuff going on to warrant needing more.. Kats laptop had 4x the video ram of my graphics workstation. Now I've doubled it for nothing, and made the machines graphics performance skyrocket.
(GeForce FX5200 Ultra previously to 9600XT)
Just forked out £25 for a display adaptor + quieter fan, but I'm super happy! I'm glad it died originally now. as i'd never have dared flash it had there been nothing to lose.. Does make me wonder what went wrong with it in the first place though. When i leant it to Owen did his motherboard scramble its eeprom? would that explain why his current video card is being bizarre?
.. Zombie holiday gets a constant full FPS, I can't make it drop regardless of on screen activity. I didnt realise video cards had that much impact on PGF-made stuff.. Apparently so though!
Woo!
current mood: accomplished (comment on this)
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