[tech] Re: [ucc] Minutes 10/08, graphics cards

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Aug 11 14:16:32 WST 2004


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, James Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Nick Bannon wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:01:43PM +0800, James Cox wrote:
> > > Geforce FX5200, around $90
> > > Advantage: pretty good at OpenGL (by far the most powerful)
> > > Disadvantage: requires putting thinterms into proper ATX cases
> > > Advantage: can eBay off the "cool little cases A+++++++++!!!!1"
> >
> > About 6x faster than the current onboard GeForce2 MX?
> 
> Hard to tell exact performance increases, since nobody ever benchmarks
> crappy onboard graphics. Andrew is going to bring in his FX5200 and we'll
> try it out with the latest NVidia drivers, though

You can get half-height 5200s, although I'm unsure of their availability
in Australia. See http://www.directron.com/lowfx5200.html for
example. $US57 = $AU80. Anyway, my vote is now for a half-height 5200,
since we know they exist.

http://www.jaton.com.au/main/NVIDIAAGP.htm has some half-height cards, and
one of their distributors at http://www.jaton.com.au/dealers/wabody.htm is
Efficient Chips :-)

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