i've been having some issues with my computer crashing lately (what else is new?), but these ones seemed to stem to the graphics card (from what i understand anyway). i'd be watching some tv show, and the screen might just black out for a moment, then if i kept watching, the computer would freeze. i'd have to manually turn it off, and start up again, but the monitor wouldn't come on unless i left the computer off for a while (must be the vga overheating (5 year old leadtek ti4200) right?). anyways, so i went to msy last night and just picked up the bottom of the line card for $47 bux (well, there was a cheaper nvidia card, but i thought i could do better than that).
it's got a passive cooler on it, so it is a bit quieter than the old card too, i don't know what the specs are, probably about the same (i hope at least), it is a generation or two newer, that's how things advance. meh, i don't play games, and even if i did, this computer wouldn't handle them very well, so the card wouldn't be the bottle neck. now i just need to passively cool my cpu as well 
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one other note off topic, in exactly four weeks time, i'll be on a plane heading for mexico 
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#33 dtra (david tran)
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