Me got a new toy!

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  1. Jerrek

    Jerrek Registered Senior Member

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    I got my shiny ATI Radeon 9000 AIW, and I installed it today.

    Pic 1, Pic 2

    I hooked up my cable TV (I don't have my satellite receiver yet) and off I go...

    Pic 3, Pic 4

    The nice thing about the ATI software is that you can do a sort of "See Thru" thing with the TV. It will turn all windows transparent and put the TV as your wallpaper or as a window, allowing you to sort of watch TV even though you're surfing the web.

    Pic 5 (enabling See Thru), Pic 6 (see the TV in the background?)

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    And the GemStar TV guide that comes with it is excellent and free! Pic 7


    I'm downloading 3dmark 2003 right now and will then see how much I get. Pic 8


    I plan on this setup: http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/personal/system.jpg



    Some more pictures:

    http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/tv5.jpg
    http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/tv6.jpg
    http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/tv7.jpg
    http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/tv8.jpg

    Here is 8: Cool huh?

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    Jerrek, Apr 28, 2003
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  3. sargentlard

    sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    ATI Radeon 9800 pro

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    ....it's not all in one but just having it makes you cool in nerd community
     
    sargentlard, Apr 28, 2003
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  5. Salty

    Salty Registered Senior Member

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    TNT2 all the way! Im gonna have to upgrade one of these days.
     
    Salty, Apr 28, 2003
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  7. valentino

    valentino Registered Senior Member

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    I have my tv already set right next to my computer, but it would still be pretty awesome to watch The Simpsons like that.
     
    valentino, Apr 28, 2003
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  8. Xerxes

    Xerxes asdfghjkl Valued Senior Member

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    WOW. How much memory does that thing eat up? I wouldn't mind doing something like that to my computer.
     
    Xerxes, Apr 28, 2003
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  9. AntonK

    AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    From what I understand most of it is done onboard so there is almost no ram being used because all image processing to put the image on screen are done on the card itself.

    -AntonK
     
    AntonK, Apr 28, 2003
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    airavata portentous Registered Senior Member

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    WOW. very cool jerrek. it would be so cool to watch tv like that

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    airavata, Apr 28, 2003
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  11. Vertigoll

    Vertigoll Gringorican Registered Senior Member

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    I got the radeon 8500, but it didn't run on my CPU so I returned it and got a crappy Vertigo. Your very lucky Jerrek.
     
    Vertigoll, Apr 30, 2003
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