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Benjamin King2 said:He can grab basically any PCI express card he wants. But honestly, what's the point of a low profile card? It's barely an upgrade over integrated graphics anyway. If I were him, I'd just dump that cash into more RAM instead.
Oh man, totally blanked on mentioning that he actually picked up another 1GB of RAM! So he's sitting at 2GB now, which is a win. As for the graphics situation—his current setup is just rocking 64MB, so he's eyeing a 256MB low profile card. He's stuck with the low profile stuff because he's running one of those tiny mini-ITX style cases, so a standard-sized card just won't fit in there!
Hey everyone!
So, my buddy’s internet is totally down right now, so I'm jumping in to try and explain his graphics card dilemma for him.
A few days back, he picked up this old Dell desktop machine
Processor: Intel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
Memory: 1GB
Hard drive: 80 GB
Graphics are integrated
GPU Name: Intel 82915G
Intel LGA775 Motherboard
Specs here:
LGA775 Socket Intel® Celeron / Pentium® 4
Intel® i915 Chipset
800MHz FSB
4 DIMM Slots (DDRAM)
18V, DDR 533
Max memory 4GB
No ECC Support
Integrated Intel 82915G Video Controller (Intel? GMA900)
Integrated AD1986 AC97 Audio Codec
1 x Line In
1 x Line Out
1 x Microphone
2 x SATA Controller (no IDE support for hard drives)
1 x IDE controller for Optical drives only
1 x PCI Express (16x) - replaces the AGP port
1 x PCI Express (1x)
2 x PCI Slots (32bit)
4 x USB 2.0 external ports (4 x internal)
Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme GbE LAN Controller (BCM5751)
WOL Support
He’s looking at grabbing a low profile 256MB PCI x16 GDDR1 card,
but what I really wanna know is—could he just get something like a 256MB GDDR2 PCI x16 instead? I've seen people chatting about this on some forums, but I want to be 100% sure before we pull the trigger. I definitely don't want my friend wasting his cash on something that won't even work!
Anyway, hope you guys get what I'm asking. Honestly, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to PC stuff, so sorry if I'm rambling or making zero sense!😁
Hey everyone!
I’m really hoping someone can help me make sense of these results. My grandma just got them back today—she's 70. She was actually in for some outpatient treatment, specifically taking Aredia to help manage her osteoporosis.
The super annoying part is that they just slapped everything on her discharge papers, so I'm sitting here totally in the dark! She doesn't see her regular doctor until Monday, and honestly, waiting that long feels like forever when you're worried.
Lab Results
WBC 8
CRP 1.0
Hb 4.70
Hgb 140
Hct 0.399
Le 8.0
Plt 220
AST 56
ALT 36
LDH 184
Total Bil 16.5
Direct Bil 2.3
GGT 64.5
ALP 62
Amylase 41
Cholesterol 7.92
HDL 2.02
LDL 4.97
TG 1.43
BUN 3.75
Creatinine 59
K 4.06
Ca 2.68
Phos. 1.16
Na 140
Cl 103
UA 273
Glucose 6.06
Ionized Ca 1.06
PTH 83.66
CK 83
CK-MB 11