I don't think the oven trick would work on a fried memory chipTry the oven trick to revive your 8800GTS(Just be careful though that you follow the instructions carefully, don't want some capacitors to blow up inside the oven)
This is a new habit I'm yet to hear of.I should probably clarify further that at no point did I say or believe that having the money for a top of the line system is a bad thing. There's a clear distinction between having the money and being able to afford it. Most people have to seriously manage their priorities when it comes to their money. If you have the money and can afford to spend it on a system that provides something you want, then nothing should really stop you from having it.
Just in case anybody got the wrong idea. Quagmire has a habit of quoting me out of context during his regular freak outs over these silly things.
Yes I know they were sued for price fixing. I'm talking about innovation, without competition, nothing good happens. For instance, you can see how Intel has gotten off its lazy ass and made some really amazing tech because AMD got close enough to scratch them with the Athlon 64. In a totally controlled economy there is no competition because the state owns it all. That being said, most economies are somewhere between here and there. But this is not about the economy, its about graphics card manufacturers, which are pushing eachother to greater heights of awesome due to demand. At any rate, my original comment still stands, as price fixing is against free market principals. Freedom comes with responsibility.
This exactly. Competition is what branches like these need to make innovative products and keep prices relatively low.
I understand your point. However, what I was trying to say without actually saying it is that no one knows if AMD/nVidia/Intel are still in a price fixing ring. The technological advances we see today could just be something they already agreed on to release. It's a pessimistic and cynical world view, but it is one with feasibility. For all we know, if competition had be tougher, we might have had Core i7s released 5 years ago or Eyefinity/3D gaming out much earlier. You can't give all the credit to free market when it could be at least partially shadowy corruption. Especially when there is tons of evidence of it taking place in the past.
