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Hey guys is there such a voltmod for the nVidia GeForce FX5500 128mb 128bit?
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nicspits said:get a job and make $50 towards a card that's worth a shyte.
nicspits said:jigga
hmmmm, buy property insurance If you have more money then you know what to do with, why do you have an fx5900 HAHAHAHA!!!!
If you really read my time breakdown, you'd see i was trying to point out to him that it's waste of time. How many people do you see posting about overclocking their thunderbirds.... no one cuz theyre old and if they mowed a lawn they could get an XP Barton.
If someone told me not to waste my time, that i usually consider valuable, I'd consider it and not think it unconstructive, perhaps more constructive then telling me how to do what I was considering.
A good example would be a $50 heatsink vs a watercooling setup on an Athlon 64 Winchester processor. Would you like to spend another $150, hours of setting it up for quiet and maybe 100 more mhz..... Get an opteron they'd say. ya follow.
nicspits said:have nothing better to do but rather than spend my time improving, working, or learning,
Waste your time reading, going for walks, spending time with people, things that aren't real wastes for cryin out loud, don't poor yourself into a fruitless project: THERE IS MORE TO LIFE!!!!
EdwardTobia Hey guys is there such a voltmod for the nVidia GeForce FX5500 128mb 128bit?
Thanks
kidkouklo ok i just asked on the vr-zone forums. so if anyone helps ill then post it on here.
Today 02:33 PM
kidkouklo thanks for the help jiggamanjb. ill try VR-Zone. some time back i remember reading a post on xtremeforums about some guy that wanted to v-mod his fx 5500 and someone gave almost the same response as nicspits. i hope vr-zone can help, but im not holding my breath. lol.
nicspits said:read my sig, i think i'm familiar with the meaning of the site.
While your argument is so nice and ideological, it's highly impractical. You're saying that just because we can tell the guy how to make something slightly better that we should even though it's definately not the right course of action.
You can relate this to the Ferrari Salesman selling an old weak man the Evo when he should be buying a Sedan. He's going to kill himself or others with a ferrari, it's not the right car for him, if he really wants a good and healthy driving experience, get a camry, he can handle it.
an FX5500 cannot handle a volt mod without more money towards cooling then a vastly better card costs: does a driver come with that Ferrari you psycho? shouts the old man.
Sorry but I don't take the liberty of telling a guy that he should be able to get 2.4ghz out of a nice athlon XP barton processor with stock cooling just by upping the voltage. I tell him, get an athlon 64 with a $50 heatsink (all together 160) and get your equivalent of 3.2ghz or > you'll need to go high end water cooilng, get a big pump, a waterchiller, a radiator, $300 and you'll hit 2.5ghz.
You see what I'm saying? just in case, i'll make it simpler. I'm in RI, I want to get to WA, I ask a friend how, he's from Texas: he says well first you'll need to fly to Houston because they have flights to WA and that'll get you there.
Then I have a friend who's from WA, he tells me that I can fly direct from Logan airport or stop in Chicago if I leave from RI. Which friend should I follow.
In this guys case, being so broke, he obviously can't afford replacement parts should he fry his stuff. So we're going to take some pictures of chips and tell him what to solder..... Unless he wants to spend again as much as the card is worth on SMD grabbers, variable resistors, a multimeter, a soldering iron, solder, etc. WTF are we thinking?
Dude, post your first 100 posts, go to the classifieds, use your credit card, by a 9800 for 75 bucks, go to ebay, sell your 5500 for 40 bucks and i'm sure somewhere you can find the 35 bucks.
Remember, the guy that originally started this thread had a kick *** system with a pos gcard: if he's at all a gamer, that's rediculous