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Reged: 05/09/05
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Posts: 3989
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: The end of the line.....(AKA: to upgrade or not to upgrade?)
02/17/12 05:24 AM
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> It's a pretty cheap and easy upgrade: you'll get your speed back and keep HLSL with a > newer video card, no other changes necessary. The 6800 is two major redesigns old now > in Nvidia terms; the 8xxx and then the 4xx both added significant shader processing > capacity, which is what HLSL needs.
The trick is finding a newer card in AGP to fit that old motherboard. There are only a couple of options, and they aren't necessarily all that cheap or easy to find. I've given up dumping money into my old box, I'll live with it as-is until it dies or I can swing a full blown upgrade.
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