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Old October 6th 07, 12:53 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Benjamin Gawert
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Well.. I went ahead and bought one on ebay today.. for $12.52 )
A basic 128MB GeForce fx 5200 AGP Dell OEM.

http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG

Nice card. I'd miss the DVI output but nevertheless it's a fine
replacement for your old TNT2.

It has an oversized heatsink.. no fan. Should be ok for experimenting.
What would be a good, conservative, lean and mean driver version?
I run 44.03 in the Riva TNT2.


I'd recommend the latest standard ForceWare driver from the Nvidia site
(no beta drivers or drivers from somewhere else).

Benjamin
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Old October 6th 07, 01:21 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:53:35 +0200, Benjamin Gawert
brought the following to our attention:

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Well.. I went ahead and bought one on ebay today.. for $12.52 )
A basic 128MB GeForce fx 5200 AGP Dell OEM.

http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG

Nice card. I'd miss the DVI output but nevertheless it's a fine
replacement for your old TNT2.


Yeah.. as mentioned already, its really an experiment.. tinkering you
know. One of your comments that stuck in my mind was, that fx 5200
didn't require a fan. I chose the card above, from two being sold by the
same guy, the other having a very kool looking fan. )

Other similar nVidia cards did have DVI outputs, but they were in the
$40 range. We'll see how this one goes and maybe `spec´ another fx.

I'm just starting to transition from BIG 21" CRTs to Samsung panels.
Maybe we can discuss that subject in another thread. Too much heat
dissipation from CRTs.


It has an oversized heatsink.. no fan. Should be ok for experimenting.
What would be a good, conservative, lean and mean driver version?
I run 44.03 in the Riva TNT2.


I'd recommend the latest standard ForceWare driver from the Nvidia site
(no beta drivers or drivers from somewhere else).


Here's what the nVidia website lookup returned:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html

Anything leaner that 93.71 available?

-G

Benjamin



p.s. including the pic of workstation `edmain´ which has two of
everything, including the CPUs. It even has a Matrox Millennium
and a third Adaptec SCSI channel in PCI slots out the back.

http://home.comcast.net/~g-abbey/drive_box.jpg



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Old October 6th 07, 04:57 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Benjamin Gawert
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Default Looking for a GeForce 3

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http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG
Nice card. I'd miss the DVI output but nevertheless it's a fine
replacement for your old TNT2.


Yeah.. as mentioned already, its really an experiment.. tinkering you
know. One of your comments that stuck in my mind was, that fx 5200
didn't require a fan. I chose the card above, from two being sold by the
same guy, the other having a very kool looking fan. )


I think you're better without fan, especially since your Dell Precision
has a very effective cooling system.

What would be a good, conservative, lean and mean driver version?
I run 44.03 in the Riva TNT2.

I'd recommend the latest standard ForceWare driver from the Nvidia site
(no beta drivers or drivers from somewhere else).


Here's what the nVidia website lookup returned:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html

Anything leaner that 93.71 available?


Older != leaner. You don't want a "lean" gfx driver, you want one which
works as good as possible. That includes also the dozens of bug fixes
that new drivers get. I'd really recommend using this one.

Benjamin
 




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