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Cheapie fanless video card?
Hello,
Looking to get a cheap AGP card which must be fanless (dont like noise!). Performance not much of an issue coz I wont be playing games, just looking for anything better than onboard graphics. Dont need anything like a Radeon 9000/9200 - can even be as low as a 32 MB card. Any Recommendations? TIA. |
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What's wrong with onboard video? If you're not gaming it should be fine...
Ran mine for a long while at1600x1200. "Rhys" wrote in message om... Hello, Looking to get a cheap AGP card which must be fanless (dont like noise!). Performance not much of an issue coz I wont be playing games, just looking for anything better than onboard graphics. Dont need anything like a Radeon 9000/9200 - can even be as low as a 32 MB card. Any Recommendations? TIA. |
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Radeon 7000 ?
"Rhys" wrote in message om... Hello, Looking to get a cheap AGP card which must be fanless (dont like noise!). Performance not much of an issue coz I wont be playing games, just looking for anything better than onboard graphics. Dont need anything like a Radeon 9000/9200 - can even be as low as a 32 MB card. Any Recommendations? TIA. |
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"Rhys" wrote in message om... kony wrote in message "better than onboard grahpics" in what way, exactly? What onboard grapics (chipset, motherboard, etc) are you currently using? What's the use of the system, the need for better video? It's a pc chips 810lmr mobo using a sis chipset. I just bought a scanner and find myself running out of Ram (just a little). My two Dimm slots are full with 1x512Mb and 1x128Mb of SD Ram. I thought adding a dedicated graphics card would free up memory and also take some of the load off the cpu(?). What do you think about the last part of that sentence? I think I might go with a Radeon 7000 64Mb from ebuyer as its less than £30. What you are trying to do is the equivilent of taking the hubcaps off your car to increase gas mileage. Less weight means better mileage, right? The money would be better spent on replacing that 128meg stick of memory. Onboard video doesn't make any difference as far as CPU usage - as long as you aren't gaming. BTW, what makes you think you are running low on memory? What speed CPU? What OS? |
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Rhys kenjka:
Looking to get a cheap AGP card which must be fanless (dont like noise!). Performance not much of an issue coz I wont be playing games, just looking for anything better than onboard graphics. Sapphire ATI Radeon 9000 is fanless... Sitting in my machine, so I can speak from experience... -- Radniko tuce u helikopteru sepav slonog volija jucer ? By runf Damir Lukic, a member of hr.comp.hardver FAQ-team |
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"Some One" wrote in message .ca...
"Rhys" wrote in message om... kony wrote in message "better than onboard grahpics" in what way, exactly? What onboard grapics (chipset, motherboard, etc) are you currently using? What's the use of the system, the need for better video? It's a pc chips 810lmr mobo using a sis chipset. I just bought a scanner and find myself running out of Ram (just a little). My two Dimm slots are full with 1x512Mb and 1x128Mb of SD Ram. I thought adding a dedicated graphics card would free up memory and also take some of the load off the cpu(?). What do you think about the last part of that sentence? I think I might go with a Radeon 7000 64Mb from ebuyer as its less than £30. What you are trying to do is the equivilent of taking the hubcaps off your car to increase gas mileage. Less weight means better mileage, right? The money would be better spent on replacing that 128meg stick of memory. Onboard video doesn't make any difference as far as CPU usage - as long as you aren't gaming. BTW, what makes you think you are running low on memory? What speed CPU? What OS? It's a 1Ghz Duron running Windows 2000. I'm scanning in images at 600 and sometimes 1200 dpi. Task manager is telling me that I'm using as much as 750Mb in memory. When using the swap file my system takes a significant performance hit. Performance seems sluggish anyway. When trying to skip through the images (like in a slideshow) in Irfanview or opening up the image files in PSPv4, then it just seems slow. I had thought that a dedicated video might speed up things (more so than onboard video anyway). Seems that might not be the case. Many thanks to all who have replied to me! |
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