Posts by Kevin Martin35

Hey!

I've been digging through several pages of this thread, but honestly, I haven't stumbled upon a straight answer yet...

My old ATI Radeon 9500 AGP card finally bit the dust—fan seized up, then the whole card just died on me. Now I’m hunting for an AGP card that might actually give some life back to this ancient bucket of bolts I'm running:
- ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard
- AMD Athlon 2500 processor
- 2 GB DDR
- Corsair 450W power supply
- LCD 1680x1050 monitor

A buddy lent me his Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 512MB DDR2, but frankly, I didn't see any meaningful jump in performance compared to the 9500. It was especially underwhelming when it came to playing HD videos on YouTube or from my hard drive—absolutely zero difference there.
Then you've got that annoying headache where the drivers for the 3650 are a mess because Windows treats it like a 2600XT.

My gut feeling is that an Nvidia card would probably suit this setup better, but you can't find them in any local stores anymore, and they're pretty much ghosts on Craigslist too.

I have no intention of dropping more than a few dozen bucks on this, and from what I can tell, it's a fool's errand to try and shove a high-end card into such a weak configuration anyway.

What do you guys suggest, other than just buying a whole new PC (which will probably be just as glitchy)?

Last edited by vočko : Today at 04:59. 😁😁😁

That’s exactly why I don't even bother turning on my computer when I stumble through the door singing my head off at that hour... 😁

That’s exactly where my head was at, too. Look, here's the deal: I've been riding mountain bikes recreationally for about five or six years now, ever since I first dragged a hybrid bike into the woods. 🙂

It started with a tricycle—the kind without that little platform in the back—just cruising around the house and then out in the yard. From there, we graduated to an 18-inch bike for those steeper hills, then a pony bike for riding through town, followed by a Rog Junior for exploring the neighborhood, and now they're all about hitting trekking trails around the area...

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...hetto+tubeless

That’s twice what I was expecting to shell out, but it looks like I don't have much of a choice when it comes to these monthly subscriptions...

Thanks for the help!

That’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s still not what I’m looking for. All you get is a massive pile of posts scattered across a dozen different threads.

What I actually need is a clean list—the kind of result you get when you go into an advanced search, type in your own username, and see a chronological feed of every thread you've joined, sorted from newest to oldest, with a direct link to jump straight to the first unread post in each one. On any high-end American forum, that’s just a single click on a persistent link at the top of the screen. Clearly, this site doesn't have that functionality, and once you're active in ten or twenty different discussions, that one-click shortcut is the only sane way to keep track of everything. Manually opening an advanced search and typing in your own handle is a far cry from having a dedicated link ready to go.
Don't you agree?

Out of all the forums I hang out on, this one is easily the slowest, and it’s the only one that doesn't bother giving you a direct 'view your posts' link right at the top of the screen.
I can wrap my head around the lag if we're talking about the sheer scale of the site, but missing such a fundamental feature is genuinely aggravating.
Seriously, I can't even find the bookmarking tool while I'm halfway through typing this reply 🤷

Look, there’s just no classy way to put it on this sluggish, cluttered mess of a forum... 😢

Most forums I use have a 'view your posts' feature, which makes tracking my own discussions a hell of a lot easier. I haven't seen anything like that here yet.
Am I just missing something obvious?

Also, what's the trick for jumping straight to the first unread post in a thread?