That's a new card, and a lot of people don't do upgrades...at...all. To a lot of people spending $150 on something to put IN their computer is something they don't do. External devices are different.
I've got a rev2 GK208-based GT640 myself, 49 watts IIRC. this one:
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeF...
It is NOT listed on EVGA's site, not even in the support section.
Never heard of anyone in my age group wanting a console system. Every adult gamer I know does PC gaming.
Selection bias, if you're a "PC Gamer master race" kind of guy you probably self-select friends of a similar sort.
I find it strange that a grown man would want to play online console games with a bunch of kids... That's just creepy...
The majority of console gamers are adults, it's been that way since the PSone days. What makes you think they're kids? Haven't you seen all the PS4 and Xbox One ads featuring adult gamers?
Besides, being young, you're probably a bit to concerned with appearing "adult". Let me quote CS Lewis:
âoeCritics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.â
and probably a new power supply...most $150 cards will require one...most basic desktops won't have a power supply with the additional PCI-E power connector.
But most people aren't comfortable doing that. They don't open their machine's case.
I thought you ran Linux and thusly ran nVidia?
You'd think they'd have another bundle that included that DVD-RW, HDD, and Win 7 for 299.
I'm not a PC gamer, bout the only things I do on a PC that needs a video card are Second Life and STO, but I have a similar box purchased back in 2010 (dual-core).
So anybody that says gaming can only be done on some $1200 monster is frankly full of bull.
While I agree, some PC enthusiasts and some of the PC gamer oriented media tend to think that $1200 is a baseline rig and to be a "real" PC gamer you should spend more.
Agreed. Consoles are something parents buy for their kids and teenagers who don't have full computer permission.
That may be the case outside of the Anglophone countries and Japan...but in the Anglophone countries and Japan consoles are for EVERYONE.
Me either. But that's what the manual says.
Lucid Lynx...2010. Hmm.
The Fedora docs from that same period are these:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/...
Which tells you to use system-config-samba, which is the standard GUI Samba configuration tool, not a third party "hack". You can still do it manually, but you don't have to.
The users won't be able to do this themselves. ("After editing
I don't know why it says to edit smb.conf directly when the easy button way to set up Samba is with "system-config-samba"
Because DCUO isn't and FreeRealms wasn't?
Cryptic with STO and SOE with DCUO as well.
Yep, I feel the same way about STO, I'd play it more except it doesn't work very well under Wine now.
I'm experiencing the symptoms descibed in the Performance Degradation subthread:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...
A couple of months ago, I was getting annoyed by the ugliness of my "golf ball" Olympic Research Science Vessel,
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Resea...
so I ponied up some cash for some points to get a Nebula.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advan...
While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.
Then again, it is not ugly.
Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Long_...
Course, everyone loves the Intrepid.
IIRC I thought the army already had tested one of these on a modified Abrams?
Or a laser version of same, which IIRC they are also working on.
That's a myth, look it up. Besides the GAU-8 cannon has always been off center with the firing barrel being at centerline.
I'm surprised that they haven't put some kind of DTSS/BASIC system up for people to shell into to see what it was like. I know there's a simulator, but they could put up a system with that XYZ and other things I've seen in this discussion. I had heard about DTSS before, but never got to experience anything like that...unlike some other lucky Slashdotters with high schools privileged enough to have a terminal connected to some university system.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
