Graphics card upgrade and fleetops technical advice

posted on September 6th, 2011, 8:13 pm

Which means more cable-salad

posted on September 6th, 2011, 8:14 pm

Hahaha. Or you buy a computer case which has some kind of cable managing system. As in, you can hide most of the cables and all of the cables you don't use

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Any ways. Good luck and have fun

posted on September 6th, 2011, 9:06 pm

Hahaha. Or you buy a computer case which has some kind of cable managing system. As in, you can hide most of the cables and all of the cables you don't use

My computer-case has several sorts of managng systems, such as for cables, hard drives and all other stuff.
I'm just bad at managing the massive cables of my PSU 

[Equinox1701e]

posted on September 6th, 2011, 10:05 pm

Last edited by Equinox1701e on September 6th, 2011, 11:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Or you buy a modular PSU that you can just take out cables you dont use. As far as your intigrated GPU Myles, if you put in a graphics card you would have to plug in your monitor to the VGA port on your mobo to use the onboard graphics, and likely need to disable your graphics card, can be quite a hassle if you need to switch it around constantly. Now if you want a graphics card that you can use with flops, seems that any AMD HD series card works fine, have several AMD/ATI systems ranging from a 3850, 4890, 5830, and 6970 and they all work on flops with no issues at all. Unfortunately I cant tall you much about Nvidia GPUS other then the older ones (like 7800GS) work without a problem.

posted on September 6th, 2011, 10:17 pm

Or you buy a modulat PSU that you can just take out cables you dont use. As far as your intigrated GPU Myles, if you put in a graphics card you would have to plug in your monitor to the VGA port on your mobo to use the onboard graphics, and likely need to disable your graphics card, can be quite a hassle if you need to switch it around constantly. Now if you want a graphics card that you can use with flops, seems that any AMD HD series card works fine, have several AMD/ATI systems ranging from a 3850, 4890, 5830, and 6970 and they all work on flops with no issues at all. Unfortunately I cant tall you much about Nvidia GPUS other then the older ones (like 7800GS) work without a problem.

yeah thats what i was worried about, the output from the integrated graphics would not come through the dedicated graphics port. guess its a radeon card. they get slightly worse reviews than the new gtxs but fleetops is a game i play a lot. now just gotta wait til i get paid to get it.

posted on September 6th, 2011, 10:33 pm

I've got a GTX 460 OC2 Gigabyte branded GPU and it works perfectly well with Flops, never had any problems with it. Prior to that I used to play it with an 8800GT and had no problems with that either. No obvious increase in performance between the two of course, since most modern video hardware is capable of eating anything that Flops can throw it.

The 560 is basically the same silicon as the 460, with a clockspeed increase.

posted on September 6th, 2011, 10:34 pm

I've got a GTX 460 OC2 Gigabyte branded GPU and it works perfectly well with Flops, never had any problems with it. Prior to that I used to play it with an 8800GT and had no problems with that either. No obvious increase in performance between the two of course, since most modern video hardware is capable of eating anything that Flops can throw it.

The 560 is basically the same silicon as the 460, with a clockspeed increase.

interesting, thats two people with gtx 460s that can run fleetops.

yet most people with gtx 500s get the problem. maybe its a driver issue.