All footling with 'puters must be put on hold. Man with Nikon has come live, and it requires my full attention.
However, before I go to a camera thread, on one of the support calls to Nvidia, (2 of 2) I complained of occasional graphics slowness. Letters taking so much time that I'm typing the next one as the first appears on the screen. Just sometimes, the Pprune screen appears with about a 1/4 of its area still black - just for a fraction of a second.
A not so perky support man said that my Nvidia-based card might just be faltering - "clunky and painting in a bit slow sometimes" - because of an inadequate PSU. Gut feeling: bow-lox, but I have been known to be wrong.
I was taken-aback to see that
the PSU was only 250 watts. Never given it thought, cos don't play games etc., but it is a bit on the titchy side, innit?
Could it be true that it could slow graphics down with no other symptoms?
The card is a GEForce 7300 GT By BFG. $44, so it must be good.
I'm really not gaining much by this new AVG 8X - with fan and its own wires for power, I might add - really quite disappointing, but given that it has so many more pixels to process a second,
can it be that it's not coping with normal internet use? The old one coped reasonably well with Flight Sim, and I'd a thought that, that would have put quite a load on it. Don't know if I'll have time to load FS on this before tomorrow's deadline.