one of those things that make you cry

[Cyphr]

just discovered a friend of mine tried to stick an 8800 in an ISA slot on his old junker so he could play crysis
EDIT: he junked the card in the process o i cant even buy it off him

[Chanlin]

When in doubt apply more force, it must fit, really it has to fit it... it broke.

[sld72382]

When I used to work at Staples a guy tried to buy desktop memory for his laptop. I told him it wouldn't work, he needs to buy laptop memory. He says:

"Can't I just cut it in half?"

His reasoning was because he didn't want to pay the 50% premium that laptop memory carried over the desktop version. I told him if he cuts the memory in half we would NOT allow a return. He said "That's not fair I am the customer!" and left.

[BlackIronCrown]

just discovered a friend of mine tried to stick an 8800 in an ISA slot on his old junker so he could play crysis
EDIT: he junked the card in the process o i cant even buy it off him

...
What was he THINKING? Or not, as it is?

[lordlundar]

Wow. That's impressive considering that the card typs don't even align right to work.

I'm not even sure I WANT to know how he pulled it off.

[Broomjockey]

I'm not even sure I WANT to know how he pulled it off.

He didn't. That's why it's junked, and not the whole system.

[mharbourgirl]

That guy should have his license to walk and breathe at the same time revoked. Isn't it a felony to abuse good hardware that way? It should be.

I have TWO of those in my computer (yay SLI bridge!), and I went to some trouble to assemble a collection of hardware that would be compatible. Then again, I'm pretty good at NOT forcing something that clearly won't fit where it's not supposed to go.

Crysis runs BEAUTIFULLY, btw.

[Naaman]

Crysis runs BEAUTIFULLY, btw.

If only I liked Crysis I'd test it now and on compare it to the new computer that's in the works, looking at the new Nvidia 260

[XXDarrienX]

Technically you do not need a Geforce 8 series to run Crysis, if you got a good 7 series card it will work. The only reason you would need 8 is for DX10.

[mharbourgirl]

Technically you do not need a Geforce 8 series to run Crysis, if you got a good 7 series card it will work. The only reason you would need 8 is for DX10.

Well, okay, having two of those beasts wasn't technically for Crysis, that was just a bonus, because the game came with the card. It was generally for DX10 and for the new stuff coming down the chutes in the near future. I'm a genuine geek married to another geek, and proud of it. We likes our shiny gadgets, we does. But I do need to get a better power supply, now that I'm thinking of it.

[BaristaTrav]

Do they still make motherboards with ISA slots? I haven't seen one of those in a good 7/8 years.

[sld72382]

I think the least year for ISA was 2001/2002.

[Cyphr]

when i said old junker i meant this thing was running windows 3.1 and is on a 486 or 586 processor

[sld72382]

when i said old junker i meant this thing was running windows 3.1 and is on a 486 or 586 processor

That makes it even worse!

[Samaliel]

And he really believed he would... ?

Oh. No. Not again.

Brain melting. Sry, BRB, kthXbai.