I could never get it to work right. Then again I was 12 and had no idea how drivers or any of that worked at the time.
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I could never get it to work right. Then again I was 12 and had no idea how drivers or any of that worked at the time.
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that and the software side wasn't the easiest. I know it took forever the first time I tried to import video off a vhs tape with one of the cards.
I had one of those on my PC back when I lived in New York, probably 2009 or so. It was pretty awful. But I had Windows Media Center, which made it kinda work okay. I think I recorded a few movies on it and transferred those to DVD. Useless now though and I'm sure the picture quality is trash.
Been so long that ATI has been part of AMD that I just associated the two together.
Been so long that ATI has been part of AMD that I just associated the two together.
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Yeah looks like amd bought them in 2006.
thinking back the first dell laptop i bought back in 2003 had a Radeon based card in it. There was no Nvidia option.
Progress
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Samsung 500GB SSD... $100 - Tempting.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-86...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-86...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649
That’s a good price.
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http://www.microcenter.com/product/..._III_6Gb-s_35_Desktop_Hard_Drives_Refurbished
Damn $9.99 for refurbished 250GB Western Digital Drives.. Do people use HDD's anymore? lol
Damn $9.99 for refurbished 250GB Western Digital Drives.. Do people use HDD's anymore? lol
Some of us do.
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Amazon has them for $27 new. Biggest thing is the size of the drive. 1tb WD are $37 on amazon, so you do the math. Cheaper than buying 4 refurbs
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SMH. I could never go back to a HDD. I am about to buy that $100 Samsung 860 EVO 500GB for my laptop that I don't use that often. It has a slow *** HDD in it lol
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is it this, or did you really find it for $100 flat? Amazon is saying it's normally $135 which is why I'm asking....
Amazon product
View: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB-Internal-MZ-76E500B-AM/dp/B0781Z7Y3S
He was using an ebay link. I'm thinking about grabbing a 1TB drive and just starting fresh since cloning my current drive is giving me tons of crap. Won't let me clone to a smaller drive even though the current drive isn't full.
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So the new PC is finally up and running. Wound up picking up 2 SSDs in the process. Now running a 1TB and a 500GB, plus my 3TB HDD. Startup is so much faster, just have to reorganize all my files since I had to go down the fresh windows install path since drive cloning failed.
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SSD's FTW 
SSD's FTW
Stupid fast boot times. I no longer fear restarts or having to wait 3+ minutes for everything to load.
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huge sale on 8tb wd external drives at bestbuy if anyone needs one. $149 currently. Normally $299.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401
or if you don't have best buy - currently on sale for $169 on amazon
Amazon product
View: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC/
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401
or if you don't have best buy - currently on sale for $169 on amazon
Amazon product
View: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC/
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3+ minutes?
I can't remember those days 
People still use external drives? Cloud Storage FTW