rec.autos.simulators

St. Eldred needs our help!
How about we all chip in and buy our good samaritan (sp?) a new graphics
card so he can join us in RASCAR this season?

Eldred is stuck with some acient V5 card so he clearly could need an upgrade
for NR2003.

The card I have in mind is a  Shappire Radeon 9500 with 64 or better yet -
128mb of memory.
Why this particulare card?  Well the Radeon 9500 can very easyli be modded
(using software) to convert it into a Radeon 9700 card! The 9500 (*non* pro)
rage of Radeon card are mostly based on the 9700 core.. it's just not using
all 8 pipelines...  and with the software modification you can open the last
4 pipelines, making it essentially into a fullygrown Radeon 9700 card :-)

A card like this cost around $200 *over here* - so it's not too expensive
(9700 Pro runs at around $500 up here - the 9700 slightly less..)

We could set up a account for Eldred using PAYPAL to do the transfere
securely..

I'll start the pot by donating $20 for the card..

Anyone care to follow up on that?

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$10 says Petter Solberg wins the 2003 WRC.

Like I was about to say in another post, if we get someone in the US to
collect the money and buy the card, I think it's a very good idea. A
sponsored driver in RASCAR!! ;-))

I'll match it.

I wouldn't bet against that one.

Jan.
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 Yep!

 Info on how to use Paypal would be appreciated though.

 Elrikk

Larry

David G Fisher

Well, I'm gonna say I did my part by sending Eldred money for the
game itself (the check really is in the mail Eldred, so go out and
buy the game now, and you can be sure you will be reimbursed in the
next couple of days).  :)

I'm working on setting up a donation account for Eldred  so he can get a new
graphics card too..
As far as I can tell we got over $100 "donated" now - so things are looking
good :o)

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"John Simmons"  said:

Keep those donations coming!

Account details and such to follow as soon as I've worked this out with
Eldred.

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$10 says Petter Solberg wins the 2003 WRC.

The 9100 is the same as an 8500.  The nVidias are almost all faster
than an 8500...

As I mentioned in an earlier thread...I think it's the least we can do. I'm in
for the card. Give me final details I.E. paypal..direct mail..etc. (I may be
out of Rascar this year though :(
Dan

What?!?  I didn't expect anyone to take my joke *seriously*...  Thanks, guys!

I have a PayPal account, but as I told you in e-mail, I've never used it since
I created it.  In other words, I don't even know HOW to use it...

Eldred
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Larry