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Thought about doing something similar with my old 7900GT but ended up donating it to my kid brother 😛

Still, if ATi ever release something to beat my 8800GTX, I'll do something like this with it :)
 
Just popping in to say SahweEet idea mang. Very cool, props to you. :trophy: 8) :trophy:


Also I found it funny one guy requesting the card has a GF8800 in his sig. :?: :roll: :?:
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If you are referring to me... I was just kidding and I said that in 2 other posts. I do not need the card at all. I believe the person that needs it the most is the one that doesn't even have a motherboard to support it. Maybe someone else with a spare PCI Express motherboard could donate it along with the video card to the person with the worst story/PC. A matter of fact, I have a spare motherboard lying around that I am willing to depart with. It is LGA 775 with a x16 PCI Express slot and it supports regular DDR ram.

crim
 
Anyways I have about 40 more pictures I just took (like 3 of the outside, then the rest of benchmarks and other system info). I'll upload them earlier.

Oh, Duncan... you think there's much in employment around Troy, NY? Haha no! About 50% of the jobs around here are given to morons (Dept of Labor), 25% are competed over between highschools students, college students, dropouts, and just about anyone else, and the other 25% are done as favors (like you have to know someone to get in).

Most of the part-time job market is sealed up tight as I can't do much of what is open (store clerk--I've been refused every time since I'm not 18+).

Anyways--nice job trying to exclude people. I have about $200 saved up for a new computer... I need a bit of help to get a bit more life out of my rig. There is a PCI-e motherboard for PGA478 that is $52. A power supply that is actually quality (AMS Mercury 460-watt EPS12V) compared to OEM power supplies is about $56. I'll need a new case anyways (APlus 188 Black) which is $30.

Also, I'm looking at doing a program called ACCESS at J&W U. in Rhode Island--it's half-priced tuition but gets you into college a year early. I'm finishing as a sophmore in highschool, the tuition we would have paid for another year at the school (up to $10,000, from $7,000 when I entered) is going toward both of my sister's college tuition. If I'm lucky I can get some paid internships in college, but it's hard to get an internship until you're a Junior. It's at least 3 years until I can get paid for anything worthwhile. Right now, my "most valuable" possession is my computer, valued at all of about $300!

One final thing--you seem to forget that some chipset makers don't adhere to the PGA478--AGP--RAMBUS/DDR combo and LGA775--PCIe--DDR2 combo. VIA makes chipsets that work with PGA478--PCIe--DDR. I need a new board anyways, and that looks the best if I can secure a graphics card.


Overclock summary
Intel Celeron 2.0GHz (FSB400) at 2.2GHz (FSB440)
SimpleTech 512MB DDR 400 PC-3200 at DDR 293 PC-2400
PNY GeForce FX 5200 (250/400) at 300/500
All motherboard speeds (PCI, AGP, etc) are all up 10%.

PETEvsDRM--It's your call. I have more pictures include some "benchmarks" and stuff like CPU-Z, Intel Thermal Monitor, while overclocked.
 
Hey guys,

Well we have had some really good entries, in just 24 hours we have 8 pages of people who want a new card (not surprising really).

I really wish I could give everybody a new card, but there is just one to give.

As promised here are a couple of pics of the card

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Keep the entries coming, I won't make a decision until tomorrow morning, so there is still time to get pics of your rig up if you haven't already. :)
 
Oh, Duncan... you think there's much in employment around Troy, NY? Haha no! About 50% of the jobs around here are given to morons (Dept of Labor), 25% are competed over between highschools students, college students, dropouts, and just about anyone else, and the other 25% are done as favors (like you have to know someone to get in).

Most of the part-time job market is sealed up tight as I can't do much of what is open (store clerk--I've been refused every time since I'm not 18+).
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I live in South Africa... nuff said.

Ive got female friends who struggle to find a job as a receptionist.
Our min wage is 2 dollars an hour if you convert it.
A receptionist will earn about 400 dollars a month or so and thats with having gone through highschool.

Times are tough. But if you have good reasons its up to the the card owner and a person saying that he cant play bf2 on high settings is a bit of a joke.

If you can play it on medium settings at 20-25fps id say you dont need the card that bad.

Im just saying in general.
 
Well I "play" (if you'd refer to the slideshow as that) it at 800x600 at 60hz, lowest detail settings. I have no idea what the FPS is other than "low", as I don't have FRAPS to find out (I wouldn't mind a link to download it--I'm quite interested in what it'll give me). I was lucky BF2 will even run...


I've seen the differance between Medium and High on BF2... you gain very little eye-candy for half the FPS. What you should look at is Low and Medium--gigantic difference.

Duncan--I understand you're trying to rout out the "undeserving" people, but sometimes cutting out everyone under ~22 years of age is a bit excessive. My school is filled with the upper-middle class and lower-high class people, including the few odd millionaires. My mom is a single woman, a nurse, and has to pay for (right now) one college tuition, my own tuition, and legal fees to fight my father. Oh, yeah... he's a doctor who pulls a six-digit income! He spends so much of his money squandering it on useless things (a vacation house in VT) and hiding most of it. If I ever try to apply for financial aide, I'd probably be turned down when they see his income.
 
Do you guys have no shame? :lol:
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No, not particularly. Maybe just a tiny bit. 😛 But I don't understand, what's bothering you about my message? Were you replying to somebody else by any chance?

I was serious, the guy from Romania is telling the truth. My after-tax income went up 11 times after moving from Romania to Canada, and I was still a Visual C++ programmer in both places. My disposable income went up from a couple of bucks a month to $1500 or so a month.

Pete, you're great and we all appreciate your gesture. However, this thread is too depressing...
 
Reading this forum makes me feel like I'm at Wal-mart or something..or a soup kitchen maybe...

Kudos to you for not being a cheap-ass like me though 😀
 
Well I "play" (if you'd refer to the slideshow as that) it at 800x600 at 60hz, lowest detail settings. I have no idea what the FPS is other than "low", as I don't have FRAPS to find out (I wouldn't mind a link to download it--I'm quite interested in what it'll give me). I was lucky BF2 will even run...


I've seen the differance between Medium and High on BF2... you gain very little eye-candy for half the FPS. What you should look at is Low and Medium--gigantic difference.

Duncan--I understand you're trying to rout out the "undeserving" people, but sometimes cutting out everyone under ~22 years of age is a bit excessive. My school is filled with the upper-middle class and lower-high class people, including the few odd millionaires. My mom is a single woman, a nurse, and has to pay for (right now) one college tuition, my own tuition, and legal fees to fight my father. Oh, yeah... he's a doctor who pulls a six-digit income! He spends so much of his money squandering it on useless things (a vacation house in VT) and hiding most of it. If I ever try to apply for financial aide, I'd probably be turned down when they see his income.
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You are a special case then :). But those ppl know who they are who are just pushing their luck. As a simple example, it would be disgusting if someone with a 7-series card got that card...u get my point.
 
Do you guys have no shame? :lol:
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No, not particularly. Maybe just a tiny bit. 😛 But I don't understand, what's bothering you about my message? Were you replying to somebody else by any chance?

I was serious, the guy from Romania is telling the truth. My after-tax income went up 11 times after moving from Romania to Canada, and I was still a Visual C++ programmer in both places. My disposable income went up from a couple of bucks a month to $1500 or so a month.

Pete, you're great and we all appreciate your gesture. However, this thread is too depressing...

Charity is always depressing, especially when there isnt a chosen candidate.

Sometimes its best not to give.

Food for thought: How many ppl would have been less depressed if this card was not given away and rather sold etc? lol
 
Figured I would post even though I won't consider this an actual submission. I have my good ol' Radeon 9800 accompanying my XP 3000+. To be honest over the past few years the card has done me well, but a few months back I went to turn my computer on and got one of those annoying beeps. I recognized the beep as being the one that occurs when the cable from the psu isn't hooked into the video card (forgot to do it when I first built it). So I figured my card was dead. I looked inside and there are actual burn marks on the molex connector.

If the connector is set at a certain angle it still gets power to the video card, and the computer will boot. However whenever I move it I always get a little scared because I know one of these times I'm not going to get it to start up. For the moment though I have a piece of electrical tape holding it in position.

Luckily I plan on building a new computer this summer pending funds, and giving this one to a parent...will have to replace the problem for them first though.
 
I get your point 100% over. I'd be happy with most any card other than the one I got. Anyways... I have more pictures, including a handwritten note!

4 of 43, these from a digital camera.



5-10 of 43



11-16 of 43



17-22 of 43



23-33 of 43 (different host again--imagehosting.com is slow!)
Link to the "album"

34-43 of 43
Link to the "album"

That's it, folks. I can get more if PETEvsDRM wants me to.

EDIT: Apparently, 51.2% of the photos didn't work. I will, however, email them.

EDIT2: Maybe they work, maybe they don't. It's all up to Imagehosting's unreliable servers.
 
he has 2gb of ram???why not just sell 1gb and then he can afford a video card. problem solved.
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Because right now ram is ridiculously cheap? Look at this for example... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141064 71 bucks for 2 gigs of name brand ram... holy crap that is cheap. how much is someone going to give me for 1 - 1 gig stick of ddr? Not trying to be a dick but come on...

This case is proof that nice people, like the majority of posters on these forums, just get kicked in the teeth. Whilst it's all very well to think of others, I say it's time for a little balance. You deserved a new GPU for paying all the bills. In situations like this I hate the way that people who spend the majority of their lives at work just so other people can live comfortably get taken for granted. If you hadn't been working as much as you could then you would have been criticised for it and what do you get when you do as you think makes sense?

You deserve the card, partially because you were ripped-off in a legal fashion and all you can do is complain about it and other people will possibly think you are trivial for complaining just because you wanted to upgrade your computer. You deserve the card because, as far as I can tell, even after your ex shafted you out of plenty of cash, you were still supportive of her son, who as far as I can tell from the story, is not yours.

A small part of me wants retribution for you, for this woman to have some horrific couch-related accident, but then I realise this is geekish fantasy and also pointless as it won't make anyone feel better.

If you don't get the upgrade then may I suggest you become a bit more of a bastard? Consider recent experience - you have been treated poorly whilst being the nice guy. If people don't admire you so much because you have started to think about yourself more then so what? They're not going to pay your bills in order for your life to get any easier and enable you to have more cash to be selfless AND treat yourself.
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You are right that it wasn't my kid, but he's only three and he shouldn't have to suffer for his mom's mistakes. Also, you are right about being criticized for not working enough, and not getting any credit for working too much. I used to hear it from her all the time, I'd work 55-60 hours a week (6 days a week nine-ten hours a day) and that wasn't enough. Oh well, some people are impossible to please. Yes I think I was manipulated to an extent, but she is also only 20 years old and probably thinks that she deserves a perfect life or something. I am tempted to become a bastard as you put it, but then I think "does the world really need another bastard?". I'll just pick up the pieces and try again when the time is right. I must confess that it would make me laugh though if something happened to the couch because she loves it so much and I never really cared for it. LMAO maybe I should post a picture of it? LOL

I live in South Africa... nuff said.

Ive got female friends who struggle to find a job as a receptionist.
Our min wage is 2 dollars an hour if you convert it.
A receptionist will earn about 400 dollars a month or so and thats with having gone through highschool.

Times are tough. But if you have good reasons its up to the the card owner and a person saying that he cant play bf2 on high settings is a bit of a joke.

If you can play it on medium settings at 20-25fps id say you dont need the card that bad.

Im just saying in general.
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I was one of the first people to post in this thread pleading my case, and after reading some of the others that followed I posted that there were other people that needed it more than me. However, to say that you can play BF2 competitively at 20-25 fps is pretty funny, anything below 50 and you'll get owned everytime at close range fights. Anyways the main reason I wanted it is for playing medieval 2: total war and some of these newer games like Infernal and maybe being able to play F.E.A.R. at decent non-stuttering frame rates with non-butt ugly graphics. If I did 'win' the card, I would pass on my x850xt to someone else on here too, if anyone even wanted it.
 
Like Bungsta, I too would like to offer my 6600 to someone if I were to win. I know it's not a great card, but better than the GF 5000 series by a long shot. It only seems right that if I were to accept this act of charity, I should try to help someone else in the same way.
 
First off, the pay it forward idea is great. I would love to advocate that idea and I think everyone would. Also I don’t think anyone should be restricted because of the primary reason as we don’t have the authority, and any attempt to do so, almost seems selfish to me, but that’s my opinion.

As for my story I feel it’s an odd one, I have read through a few and I feel mine is unique. You decide.

My computer is nearing two years old coming up, and I face certain problems most people don’t. First off I have a monitor that the movers’ labeled "custom" this is because it is from a server rack that was being decommissioned and thrown away by the Army. This monitor is perfect for everything I need except in one very important way. It has 1 working resolution. 2 others that only show 1/2 the screen even with full adjustment. My monitor which i'm not even sure what kind it is, only works properly in 1024x768 So playing any game kind of bends me over when my 6600 even over clocked struggles to do anything. With FEAR at low settings I muster an impressive average of 25-33 FPS with a minimum being 12 during that explosion at the end of the test. Doom 3 laughs at me when "it" hits the fan. My biggest problem is I spent too much money on aesthetics then. Hence the case and glowy blue lights. I have a 3.4 GHz P4 I think it’s the last one or the one before that when they started making dual cores. 1 GB of dual channel ram.

I will take my pictures with the webcam my wife bought.

Now for the sad life events. I am currently jobless; my only income I am receiving is unemployment from the great state of Arizona for a whopping 240 dollars a week, when untaxed, and 1075 from the GI bill. I am currently enrolled in college so I can get the GI bill obviously. Also my wife and I are unemployed and seem unable to get a job, even though I feel I have a great resume.

As for all the money from the army, well that got soaked up trying to find a place in Phoenix after they basically shuffled me out of the door for PTSD from being in Iraq for a good portion of my military career. Also we enjoy lots of debt and live in rent controlled apartments.

And here are the pictures of my computer. Sorry the resolution sucks I don’t have a digital camera.
This is my monitor
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Side shot
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The old server keyboard and touchpad not sure if pad works, keyboard sticks like hell
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My shiny looking computer hides its age well I think
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My case is a thermaltake Armor, the SCC Steel one not the aluminum
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My monitor in 960xWhat ever (my cryptic Gir figurine in the top left
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My monitor bottoms out at 800x600
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Here’s what that looks like
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Screenshot of Hardware Manager
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Screenshot of System properties
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backgrounds both prove I’m writing this I guess, of course I don’t know why anyone would lie, guess I’m a tad naive too, and a bad speller... which is why I love spell-check to death (Thanks MSWord!!!) 😀 Again sorry about the lighting no flash on the webcams.

The edit:

This comp cost about 1200 2 years ago, LOL darn computer turnover rate :cry:

On a side note if anyone knows of an opening for a junior network tech/admin/helpdesk/computer related job, I'm free.

Edit round 2! (DING)
tried to get the pics to post, hope it works this time, looks like it is for now.

Edit 3, 😳
I do have a PCI-E motherboard, its some Asus with built in everything but Video
 
Oh, Duncan... you think there's much in employment around Troy, NY? Haha no! About 50% of the jobs around here are given to morons (Dept of Labor), 25% are competed over between highschools students, college students, dropouts, and just about anyone else, and the other 25% are done as favors (like you have to know someone to get in).

Most of the part-time job market is sealed up tight as I can't do much of what is open (store clerk--I've been refused every time since I'm not 18+).
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I live in South Africa... nuff said.

Ive got female friends who struggle to find a job as a receptionist.
Our min wage is 2 dollars an hour if you convert it.
A receptionist will earn about 400 dollars a month or so and thats with having gone through highschool.

Times are tough. But if you have good reasons its up to the the card owner and a person saying that he cant play bf2 on high settings is a bit of a joke.

If you can play it on medium settings at 20-25fps id say you dont need the card that bad.

Im just saying in general. umm you say this but you have a killer rig in yo' sig. whats up with that?
 
I neglected to specify my videocard earlier. Its an old (about 5 years) ATI Quadro card. Yes it is AGP, and no its not for gaming. I was lucky or unlucky depending how you look at it to buy a used machine from a engineering firm that I worked for. Needless to say they had stripped it of almost everything good before they sold it to me. I need excuse to build new machine and turn this old one into a file server. I cannot tell you how much I need an excuse. I am trying to hold off on buying any new parts until I buy my Girlfriend/Fiance's engagement ring. But if Iwere to win this card I could totally swing building a new machine, She is very tired of the lag in the current machine. For the price of maxing my ram I can build a whole new Machine minus a video card. Hence the reason I deserve to win this mofo GPU. Come on, anyone that has a custom case apparently has money to upgrade their system, otherwise they wouldn't have a custom case. But, I dont want to exclude anyone, becasue that seems almost selfish. But anyone that has old rdram laying around I will take it off of your hands and/or an agp videocard that will out do my current card. I see that others want to follow in PETEvsDRM's footseteps by giving away their old parts. If you want I will take them. I kinda have a thing for older machines and will always I repeat always keep atleast one legacy machine till I die. You never know when the government will decide to control all new operating systems or atleast be able to look at all of your info/files. No big brother will look at my files if I have a machine disconnected from the grid and running without the need of updates or other trickery used by the man(microsoft) to look at your files cleverly disguised as system processes....maybe, you never know what the future will bring.
 
Hi PETE vs DRM

Well i wont go into my story all over again because it was way back on page 3 but here are some of the pics.





 
I like the idea of keeping this going,members would recieve cards they never thought they'd own...but keep it real,sniff out the floggers,like working in an engeneering dept. 8O kinda counts you out in my book.I told a buddy of mine that takes care of his overweight moms every whim,he was to imbarrassed to post(i've taught him alot about pc's and he's got a nack for it,now he's got an activity he can do when not taking care of mom).I think this is a good thing for 1,now you actually know a lil bit about the person besides their pc views,for those thinking people are depressed over this ,get a life....Think of the way less fortunite than you for a change,and live life in a diffrent perspective,gl everybody 😀 .
 
hi there,

it's really generous from you to make such an offer, you're giving me hope for some quality gaming and i really appreciate that from you.

i'm from Morocco, in rabat, the capital which is near to Casablanca, and in this country there is no way you can have a decent GPU, let alone an excellent card like 7900 GT. why ?? the purchase power here is low, retailers don't dare import GPU that cost higher than 120$ and they sell it for around 170$ (exemple 7600 GS), this is the highest card i've seen in my country... there were some extremly few exceptions but the prices were totally insane (last year x800 pro = 800$).

i cannot buy stuff online, our currency and economic policy does not allow that.

last option, wait for somebody to go abroad and i have no one to go to france or spain or the US.

it SUCKS to be in africa if you're fan of video games and high tech.

so please consider my request, i reallly need it so bad, your offer is extremly appreciated, and i can cover the shiping cost.

i'm not poor and i'm not rich neither, just the average guy, for now i have pentium D 805, geforce 6200 TC , 1,5 GB ram .... a card like this is all that i need, and there is no chance i can find it in Morocco. sorry i have no digital camera to take picture of computer , but my computer is not that old anyway. thanks in advance. PM if you are interested in my situation.
 
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