Recent content by chklin

The 9800GT is a pretty powerful card. However, you should carefully study your build before you buy it, because (a) it takes up two slots, and (b) it requires quite a bit of power (need a 6-pin connector) that the PSU in your mini PC may not be able to supply. I would recommend the Radeon HD...

Of course it can. The phrase "designed only to" is a remark on the intention of the designers, not the capabilities of the design. If I design a fireproof safe with preserving paper documents as the only design goal, then the safe is designed only to preserve paper. It may also happen to...

Warning: most fireproof safes are designed only to preserve paper documents. More specifically, they are designed only to keep the internal temperature below 451°F (so that paper in the safe will not catch on fire) and are insufficient to protect magnetic media (which include hard drives). I...

Thanks. Your answers to these questions help me understand what you really need. Adding a new internal drive to your existing PC (to hold a copy of the data on your NAS) is cheap and sufficient to prevent data loss due to these two modes of failure. These days it should be easy to find a...

When thinking about backups, here are the first questions you need to ask yourself: What kind of failures are you trying to recover from? How much data need to recover from such failures? How much do you plan to spend? The first question is the most important. Are you trying to prevent...

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Almost everything you do on a computer requires a lot of random access. Sequential read/write is the exception rather than the rule. If most storage access is sequential, we would still be using tape drives.

There are three outputs on the card. Any two of the three will work simultaneously to drive dual displays.

What dr.stevil said. Also, some cards ship with a second low-profile bracket that allows you to connect the VGA output on the card directly.

Any low-profile Radeon 4350, 4550, and 5450 card with DVI and HDMI output should do what you want.

Because most after-market coolers (at least the ones I have seen) will not fit a low-profile card?

So it is you who did the math wrong. Sorry.

In the very next post to the one I quoted, Decko87 said "Nice job". Am I supposed to learn something from that?

Mr K6, did you build this table? You did a good job collecting the numbers from all the sites. The math you use to compute the averages, however, are not quite right. You used arithmetic mean (add n numbers and divide by n) when you should have used the geometric mean (multiply n ratios and...

Nobody is taking advantage of you. They (the retailers, not ATI) are merely choosing to prioritize those people who are more desperate for 5xxx cards than you are (and therefore willing to pay more than you do for the cards).