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| 373733 | 2005-07-20 02:00:00 | What is the best low profile video card I can get for $200? It will need to be AGP, not PCI-E. | Greven (91) | ||
| 373734 | 2005-07-20 02:57:00 | Why not go for a basic nVidia GeForce FX5200....? pricespy.co.nz |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 373735 | 2005-07-20 03:06:00 | I would say perhaps the ATI 9550, Im pretty sure the last one I handled came with a low-profile mounting braket.....or perhaps that was a fx5200. Best you dont take my word for it. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 373736 | 2005-07-20 04:07:00 | Ive been looking at them. I know there are low profile versions of both those cards, but I can't find a NZ dealer that stocks the low profile versions. Can you please post a link to somewhere I can buy the low profile version. | Greven (91) | ||
| 373737 | 2005-07-20 04:12:00 | Hmm.....Being a dealer and having the same pricelists as most others recieve from the suppliers I see that none of them are listed as "low profile", My earlier statment just comes from discovering the low profile faceplate packaged in with the cards.... Your going to have to venture out and pay a visit to a shop that holds stock and manually inspect the packages. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 373738 | 2005-07-20 05:02:00 | buggar. I live in Invercargill so all the bricks & mortar stores are overpriced & have **** all selection. My polytech (SIT) is looking at buying about 15 low profile video cards for the game development course they have just started offering. They tried using the onboard video for the first lesson & it just died. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 373739 | 2005-07-20 05:06:00 | well, in that case contact a large reseller and ask them if any of the cards are supplied with the face plate. If the sale was going through me I would have an email off to the supplier in an instant and the info would be supplied....but i can't in this instance bug the supplier just out of curiosity. Either way teh ATI 9550 is a better card then teh FX5200. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 373740 | 2005-07-20 05:28:00 | if its for game development then they would have to be something better than a fx5200, a radeon 9550 might just do though.... you could always cut the facplate so it fits. my 9600 came with a low profile faceplate, can you buy these seperate somewhere? ive seen these computers at the SIT, aren't they dells or hp's? they might have a hissy fit when you put a video card in those... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 373741 | 2005-07-20 05:33:00 | You would imagine that if they had someone able to run such a course they would have understood the hardware requirments and had it sorted right from the get go, Whacking a low-end card in an office machine may not bring it up to the required level. And wouldn't an educational establishment already have an avenue for low cost hardware? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 373742 | 2005-07-20 09:45:00 | You would think so, but SIT is the most unorganised institution I have ever encountered. The course was only aproved by the minestry of education about a month before it started & they have an Ex-student teaching it (who got on the wrong side of ITS quite often when he was a student). The machines are 2 ghz P4 compacs with 512mb of RAM. They don't have to be super gaming machines for game dev - they just have to be able to run a decent selection of games (anything before half life 2) for the evaluating games part, and be able to run all the direct X 9 tutorials. |
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