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Looking for a GeForce 3
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:53:35 +0200, Benjamin Gawert
brought the following to our attention: * : 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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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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