hi joey
yes, my original card was a GeFORCE 7600 and tried to get a mid range card. i was offered a card for $65 but i said i wanted to spend atleast $150.and this was the recommended card that was cross checked by another tech at the store. i cant play youtube over 360p once i hit 420p i get broken images,720p is like looking at a vid of photos insteat of motion video. this could be an internet/buff problem so i ran some tests. on furmark the big furry donught did not spin at all.in 3 minutes it moved about 20frames which appered more like a glitch than a test. due to the fact there was movement but the picture states 0 fps and 1 per minute.i wrote 1fps but shoud have actually written '0.01fps'
so far 1 freeze up trying to watch youtube 720p and had to restart PC. banicam screen recorder cant keep up with the mouse,windows snipping tool is slow when scribbling on the capture(cant track the mouse).
as for the pentium D(the tech also stated theres no such thing),xp home reads it as pentium5 aswell, i have installed windows7 on it since the day i purchased this PC, that was well over a year ago.it is totally compatible with windows and the experiance rating was a 3.4 and is now at 2.1 ,it was my proccecssor that rated poorly but now its this new 5500 card.the speed of the PC is fine, it fully loads windows from the login music in less than 2 seconds,this includes kaspersky 2011 loading,a desktop gadget,sound and graphics drivers.the only thing that takes a couple more seconds is the internet connection.but i have total access to the system instantly.after i have about 3 windows and 8 Tabs open it will tell me explorer has stopped responding,3 seconds later its fine again.since changing graphics cards ive now installed kaspersky pure 2010 coz it uses less resources and loads quicker than the other versions from my experiance,hoping to not have any potential lag on my system while trying the card out.
as for running windows7 on older computers.i have another old DELL pentium4 that is around 11years old (its my test computer). IDE hard drive,cd player only, non bootable from USB,onboard graphics,512mb RAM,2.5GHz and i have made windows7 stick on that machine before(by un-mounting the ISO and setting up a bootable USB and launching it within the current operating system), and aslong as i defrag every 2days its fine also,of course i did have to tweek the OS abit,also i cant run aeropeek on that old pc.that PC cant play HD,MP4 or Blueray files.but handles win7.
ive also been playing with a heap of windows7 lite editions aswell as full versions that i found on the internet and the original disc i own.and after over 400 formats on various computers in just over a year,customers included. i can make windows7 work on anything.
i would personaly say the old PC i just mentioned, and the new graphics card (thats in the better PC).are both capable but certianly not compatible with windows7
1st link, the pc i just rebuilt.
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=i30d76kc90ncut72nd link, a Pentium4 that is also capable of running win7 after tweeking and changing settings etc...(tho i could not garentee its performance if i was to sell that old box)
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=9ato7vq3ihaq4bzat the end of the day, they sold me a crap graphics card that i could of gotten on ebay for $30,there such bad cards apparently that people are practicly giving them away.and ill prob reinstall my original nVidia7600 by the end of this week,and write this off as an expensive time wasing lesson that has given me less faith in the people we pay to help us.
ive heard all sorts of stories from different techs trying to sell me stuff aswell as being ripped off.from motherboards,CPUs,new hard drives,more power,RAM,whole computers etc.. basicly all wanting around $600 to $1000 for a custom build,then the next tech i speak to re-offers what the last tech couldnt deliver.its funny that 2 years on after re-oiling the CPU fan and rebuilding it, that old PC has been still going strong and hard.in fact ive formatted so many times(like hundreds) that last week the IDE on that particular system finally died (and i dont blame it considering its 11 yr's old and has been spinning practicily non stop for 2 years).although im still a beginner i have put thousands of hours into hands on prac and theory.basicly im just at the start of a road that will take a lifetime to reach the goals ive set for myself.i may not sound tech but thats coz i try and break everything down to an understanding level of a trained monkey.i absolutly loved your vids on technobable and the view of being able to teach an elderly person in a simplified,understandable manner is what brought me to this site in the beginning.
im concidering returning my card and getting a new motherboard instead, and then purchasing elsewere the hardware you personally recommend and rebuilding the system.ill create a new post for that,if i decide to go that way.
April 08, 2011, 07:03:36 PM
