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Alice - 21 Apr 2009 07:22 GMT

i play alot of second life. its a online 3d world. but now my hd 4850
lags. i have a 9800 GTX i have never instaled was woundering what u all
thaught about wich of the 2 i howd use. pros and cons if u will

Alice
P.S. HD 4800 used to work fine. works fine in all my othr games as well.

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Man-wai Chang ToDie (+MS=V32B) - 21 Apr 2009 07:45 GMT

> i play alot of second life. its a online 3d world. but now my hd 4850
> lags. i have a 9800 GTX i have never instaled was woundering what u all
> thaught about wich of the 2 i howd use. pros and cons if u will

I could only say Nvidia makes better drivers than ATI. :)

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Alice - 21 Apr 2009 10:42 GMT

>> i play alot of second life. its a online 3d world. but now my hd 4850
>> lags. i have a 9800 GTX i have never instaled was woundering what u all
>> thaught about wich of the 2 i howd use. pros and cons if u will
>
> I could only say Nvidia makes better drivers than ATI. :)

yeah i tried installing came up with a problem now. it wont fit becase the
sata cables for the hard draives and dvd drives are in the way. so i font
know if it safe to cut the plastic cover or noght trying to reach my brother
who tests for nvidia to ask him

Alice

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Paul - 21 Apr 2009 11:07 GMT

>>> i play alot of second life. its a online 3d world. but now my hd
>>> 4850 lags. i have a 9800 GTX i have never instaled was woundering
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>
> Alice

They make cables with a 90 degree angle on the end.

http://www.satacable.com/images/ss-01msr-500.jpg

http://www.satacable.com/images/ss-01mls-500.jpg

One is a "left" cable, and the other one is a "right" cable.
If this is a side view of the motherboard, a left and
right fit like this. The connectors are designed, so they
won't bump into each other, and yet keep a lower
profile than a straight connector.

+--------+ +--------+
cable - - - - | | | |- - - - cable
+-----+ | | +-----+
| | | |
+--+ +--+

| | | |
| | | | <--- Adjacent SATA, side by side
+----+ +----+
-------------------------- -- ------- Motherboard
-------------------------- -- -------

Cables with a 90 degree connector on the end, are also
handy sometimes, for the hard drive that fits in a tray.

This one is a right-right (90 degree connectors on both ends).

http://www.startech.com/item/SATARA18-18-inch-Right-Angle-Serial-Cable-both-ends.aspx

It's like being in a plumbing store :-)

HTH,
Paul

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Alice - 21 Apr 2009 11:38 GMT

> They make cables with a 90 degree angle on the end.
>
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> HTH,
> Paul

thos look neet. just my pc is a tight case i guss. i have couple picture i
can post if its okie

Alice

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Paul - 21 Apr 2009 16:50 GMT

> thos look neet. just my pc is a tight case i guss. i have couple
> picture i can post if its okie
>
> Alice

To post a picture, you'd need a picture hosting site. There are a
few different ones.

The ones at the bottom of this page, aren't all the same type, but
the entries will give you some idea. Imageshack is one of the
sites good for a quick picture. Once the picture is uploaded, you
post a link to the picture in your next USENET posting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing

Even with a 90 degree connector on the SATA cable, there still might
not be room for a cable, but that style of cable is another option.

Paul

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Quietman - 22 Apr 2009 23:34 GMT

I don't think your graphics card is the only source of lag.

In my experience, Second Life lags regardless of the graphics settings,
presumably because its online. I have an 8800GT 512MB and turned the
graphics settings down to minimum and still had low frame rates. Turned the
graphics settings back up again and hardly any difference... I think its
just the nature of Second Life and the way it works...

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