Monday’s post and yesterday’s post about the mosque controversy in NYC drew a response…on Facebook.\u00a0 Since I opened yesterday by mentioning the Cause on Facebook I was invited to join, I linked the two mosque posts there and got a few comments.\u00a0 I was thinking (kind of hoping) somebody would comment here, too, but no such luck.<\/p>\n
I did a little research on video cards.\u00a0 My motherboard supports a thing called Crossfire, which is the ATI version of what Nvidia calls SLI.\u00a0 It means you can have multiple video cards on your system and they will work with each other.\u00a0 That is, they will directly communicate, acting like a single video card.\u00a0 For this to work, however, one has to get not just a motherboard capable of Crossfire but video cards, too.\u00a0 ATI puts out several, and they are very<\/em> expensive.\u00a0 The low end version, which comes with 512mb of RAM, costs about $300 from Amazon.\u00a0 The video card I had already chosen, also an ATI but without the Crossfire technology, has twice the RAM but is half the cost.\u00a0 The low end Crossfire card can support two displays while the non-Crossfire card supports up to three.\u00a0 The non-Crossfire card also supports ATI’s Eyefinity technology, which means you can make the three displays it can control act as a single display.\u00a0 The Crossfire card does not have this support.\u00a0 So I am sticking with the card I originally chose, which is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5770.\u00a0 This is a mid-range card in the HD series.<\/p>\n I won’t actually be getting this video card for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 Next week’s paycheck is going towards Other Things.\u00a0 Most importantly, I am sending a computer to my son, Spaceman.\u00a0 I’ll be installing Windows 7 on it.\u00a0 I am expecting to pay $100 – 150 to ship it and the monitor I am giving him.\u00a0 Also, one of our cats needs to see the vet; he seems a bit ill.\u00a0 If there’s enough money left after that to get the video card and have enough to pay regular expenses, I’ll do it.<\/p>\n Enough rambling for today.\u00a0 See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday’s post and yesterday’s post about the mosque controversy in NYC drew a response…on Facebook.\u00a0 Since I opened yesterday by mentioning the Cause on Facebook I was invited to join, I linked the two mosque posts there and got a few comments.\u00a0 I was thinking (kind of hoping) somebody would comment here, too, but no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}