I'm Loving it

So Lesley's addiction to eBay and Greenwich Denby Pottery shows no signs of abating and who can blame her when there are such bargains around to be had.

I've just picked up an ATI FireGL8800 graphics card for a grand total of £24, bargain. The plan is to upgrade the Workstation supplied by my work for when I'm working from home. Over the past few weeks I've, on average, worked from home once or twice a week.

The Workstation in question is owned by my work but it's unlikely to ever be returned due to it's age and our current set up. Still, it's a fair machine and runs ProEngineer well, it's just the graphics card that's holding it back hence the purchase.

Currently it has a Quadro2 Pro Elsa Gloria III with 64Mb running on AGPx2. The new card has 128Mb running on AGPx4 (equivalent of a Quadro4). Not cutting edge (about 3 years old now) but still a step up from the Elsa Gloria III. Should allow for sharper, clearer graphics at a higher resolution (and dual screens :). The Workstation is a Dual PIII 1Ghz with 1Gb Rambus memory and twin 18Gb SCSI Hard Drives. Nice machine to have around.

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