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

[James Cox]

I've just tested out a "full height" FX5200 (the normal card isn't as tall
as the spec allows) in a thinterm and they fit just fine, so we won't need
to do pay more for a low profile card or retrofit the mobos into normal
ATX cases after all.

[RME]~Coxy

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, James Andrewartha wrote:

> 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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