For most people the GPU is probably the least important thing in their computer. For gamers and video editors its a different story, my HP has what was and absurdly expensive GPU when it was new (well over $1000) but its basically unused 90% of the time.
-Curt ________________________________ From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Linux (was Re: Classic car "lock, stock and mac") On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:54:37 -0700 clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Last night we wasted hours building a whole new gaming box for him. > .... > He has not sourced a GPU, so not going to know if it worked for a few > weeks I presume, then, that the motherboard doesn't have a built-in graphics adaptor. I had been using an EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR Geforce 8600gt 256mb 128-bit, but got tired of rebuilding the NVidia proprietary driver each time the kernel changed, so I removed the card and am using the on-board graphics adaptor (an integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 on our ASUS M4A785TD-M-EVO motherboard). Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
