My CAD teacher was throwing a bunch of harware from the old computers into a box (literally throwing, a modem totally missed and skidded on the floor, only to have him say "Guess that ones screwed"). After a bit of hesitation I asked what he was going to do with all the components he said probably chuck the lot. But he asked me what I needed. I didn't want to be greedy so I said a graphics card. He popped out what looked like a GeForce 2 MX and said "Here's a rightious mother, 64 megs, good for games" I thanked him, stuffed it in the old sack and left. I figured even if my 6800 is dead I'll at least be able to boot up now. Well free things aren't always a great as they seem as when I got home and took it out the first thing I noticed was it had 3 distinct pin sections. So basically it's a 3.3v AGP 2x card. So we're talking about 2000 or 2k1 at the most here. Not so good. But it was free! So I'll have my dad take it to school tomorrow and see if he can exchange it for a crappy AGP 8x card they don't need, or just any old PCI card. I'll keep you guys updated on how things work out
Its always good when you get free components, like when you go to a computer stall, take a stick of RAM and when they shout at you threaten to rub it on your jacket...
Not really sure, I think my friends PSU could have killed it, and his gfx card so we RMA's the lot. Should be able to do the same to mine as well though I'm not really sure that's what killed it, just speculation. UPDATE: Well apparently Geforce 2/4 cards are concidered "gaming hardware" by my dads school so they didn't have any of those. Apparently they were stuck with mostly ISA. Somehow I don't belive that as the head honcho there said he tried a AGP and PCI card in my rig and it worked fine... guess they can't manage to part with them. Oh well I'll get the RMA thing sorted out soon enough.
Yeah free stuff is great, got quite a bit recently, although none of it is amazing hardware it's not bad so shall be put to use on something, maybe that "Build your own supercomputer" thing in CUSTOM PC magazine (build your own supercomputer using old PC's you have apparently...) Personally never tried that...wouldn't want to, they're probably faster runners than me...
