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Bioboffin
Michael said:
Has it occurred to any of you to actually comment on the issue asked?
Has it occurred to any of you to actually comment on the issue asked?
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Paul Murphy
It occurred to me so I did - has it occurred to you?
Paul
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Bioboffin
Paul said:
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Steve
Looker007 said:
What question? From what I can see the OP was offering advice, not asking a
question at all.
Cheers.
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Chris Streeter
Looker007 said:
Looker007,
it may be my ignorance, but I completely fail to see the reason why you
said he was getting off topic.
it was clearly a person who was trying to help by telling us about his
specific example where his gf3 had weird issues and that he could not
replicate the issues with the ati9800 he replaced the GF3 with. However,
being that you know about Netiquette i would assume that you know how forums
work, especially unmoderated ones. With that being said i think the person
truely off topic would be you. when you posted that message i'm sure you
knew you were going to start a flame war. my question is why? with an
unmoderated group, why was it your responsibility to point out someone who
mentioned another product? these ati and nvidia forums were designed to keep
the main topic relevant to each company, but who is to say that they can't
have common issues or problems? and if so, why can't we talk about both
here? it's not like ati and nvida are trying to kill each other, why should
we then? i own both nvida and ati cards in my house and i know that both
cards have their place.
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Looker007
Wrong! A total waste of bandwidth is fielding comments in the newsgroupMichael said:
that aren't related to ATi video cards in general.
Don't be so lazy and search the A.C.P groups, I'm sure there's one that
will fit one's question..
If your ISP doesn't carry the appropriate group then subscribe to a news
service that does.
Me waste bandwidth, hahaha, lol..in relation to what?
In the BIG scheme of things my text is but a period on some
cosmic page.
Get a life and stop defending usenet abusers.
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Looker007
I've been on the internet since the 80's so yes I do know and understandChris said:
what you're
saying... Perhaps I missed the "Original post" and came in on a "RE:"
where I only saw
the mention of the GeF card:
"rms wrote:
I've been seeing sporadic but fairly frequent crashes or reboots
while playing CSS and other games, and after changing my AGP
Aperture on this 6800GT from 256 or 128 to 64meg, the crashes have
disappeared. This is on a NF7-Sv2 mobo, so perhaps this doesn't
hold for all
systems, but check your Aperture size if you are seeing any
crashes. rms"
To me seeing the above (in quotes) statement was off topic. As I said above
anything NOT ATi specific would best be served in another A.C.P newsgroup.
Non-moderated usenet groups are supposed to be self-policing. In
otherwords if someone
does post "Off Topic" material someone should use the "bandwidth" to
tell the offending
poster. I excercised that right for the above post, whether original or
"RE:"
It wasn't my intention to start any flame war, but I'm amazed that
unrelated ATi topics are
allowed.
I'm from the "old school" and am a firm believer in "person (gentlemens)
agreements".
If there are common issues then its a MAINBOARD discussion as the post
indicated, not a video card issue.
IE: Aperature setting=mainboard issue.. Best answered on
A.C.P.MAINBOARD, anyone who doesn't subscribe to that usenet group,
why not? I do... I sub to every relevant usenet group that I'm
interested in. I don't take a lazy approach an post on
a "similiar" newsgroup, simply to avoid what has transpired here.
...And yes I have been flamed by other usenet grous for supposedly
posting "off topic" material, which to me was
relevant... I got the same spiel from a usenet "watchdog" that I was
off topic and that my question best be
served on another usenet group "blank.blank.blank.blank"
If I've caused any misunderstandings I apologize..
From now on this newsgroup can go to the perverbial dogs. I'll let
some other
internet "caring" person take the flak for addressing OFF TOPIC posting.
Just because a person has any other brand of vid card other than ATi
doesn't make posting here
right.
In future I just won't read nor comment on the post.
I did have another answer for the poster, but I doubt he/she will read
this post..
Aperature setting depends not only on the amount of memory your video
card has
but also on the amount of memory you have on the mainboard.
If your video card has 256MB of video memory, you really shouldn't need
an Aperature
setting larger than 64, why? Because there aren't hardly any games or
apps being published
today that will use the 256MB of on board video memory...
Another rule of thumb I read about said not to make your Aperature
setting larger than .25, one
quarter of your system onboard ram.. I forget were I read this, it could
have been on Tom's Hardware
site, in the LangaNews newsletter or on Guru3D,.. someplace.. If in
doubt do a Google on mainboard Aperature
setting.
The correct number has always been of interest to em as well, but I
follow the "one quarter" rule of thumb...Another
question may be: Does the video application, be it game or program
really use the alloted Aperature memory setting?
When the vid card's memory is used up, does the program or game start
to lag or stutter or even quit for lack of video memory?
--Looker007
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Paul Murphy
I replied earlier in this thread with my technical thoughts/suggestions. YouLooker007 said:
sound angry that your view on the appropriateness or otherwise of a post has
been challenged. You must have heard the term "winning the battle but
loosing the war" right? Well if you continue like this you'll be loosing
both the war and the battle (and at the moment I'm not even sure you've won
a battle in the first place). I'm much more willing to listen to the views
of people who don't come across as having an authoritarian or dictatorial
tone when it comes to what people post and in which newsgroups. Putdowns
such as telling people to "Get a life" don't convince me to accept that
persons viewpoint and it says more about the accuser than the accused.
Paul
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Michael W. Ryder
Looker007 said:
So how come you aren't flaming RonGrossi?? His posts aren't even
related to computers, much less ATI or it's products.
Most of us don't have your time to read every newsgroup looking for that
tidbit that may come in useful later on. The OP's posting may be useful
to someone with an ATI, nVidia, SIS, or any clone video card. So the OP
should have posted to every video group and mainboard group?
So you are going to pay for every usenet user's access to some uber
newsgroup that carries everything?
And how much time have you spent being an inept usenet Gestapo?
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borolad
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Can't decide whether
- your an incompetent troll
- a part time netcop
- or just a ****in idiot
Which is it Looker ?
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Can't decide whether
- your an incompetent troll
- a part time netcop
- or just a ****in idiot
Which is it Looker ?
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J. Clarke
Chris said:
Just write him off as a netcop-wannabee and toss him where he belongs.