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GJSNeptune
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I'm using a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO (AGP) and it's a great card. I think my system is bottlenecking it though.
The nice thing about this card is that it has 12 pipelines, and if it has the R430 chip, it should have 16 pipelines
The nice thing about the GTO is that it has 12 open pipelines but most of them actually have 16. I it has red PCB and the R430 Samsung chip, the four locked pipelines can likely be unlocked. These cards are very overclockable, and unlocking the four pipelines and upping the core/memory speeds can easily turn the GTO into X850 XT. Very good value, and they're a lot cheaper now than when I bought mine.
The nice thing about this card is that it has 12 pipelines, and if it has the R430 chip, it should have 16 pipelines
The nice thing about the GTO is that it has 12 open pipelines but most of them actually have 16. I it has red PCB and the R430 Samsung chip, the four locked pipelines can likely be unlocked. These cards are very overclockable, and unlocking the four pipelines and upping the core/memory speeds can easily turn the GTO into X850 XT. Very good value, and they're a lot cheaper now than when I bought mine.
Thanks. In this case i'm not really looking for 3D performance tho, an entry-level GPU will do just fine. I should also mention that It's not for personal use either but to replace failed cards in a fleet of workstations, so I need a bunch of the same model, not just one.
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Sounds like onboard video would suffice for you. Maybe look for a Radeon 7000 series. I'm not sure what the low-end NVIDIA cards are.
Integrated would have indeed been sufficient, in fact, after this particular PC model went EOL I worked with the customer and they stopped adding video cards to their base PCs. This was right around the time Intel's new GMA stuff came out - it was more then enough.
My initial attempt is to continue with a dedicated video card for the model in question and to keep the configuration somewhat consistent by staying with an ATI-based card comparable to the 9200 they originally shipped with. I think i've got a lead on some 9250/9550's tho, some 7000's. We'll see what happens... otherwise, we may just need to drop down to the integrated video (Intel Extreme 2). I don't want to move to an nVidia card and muddy the waters tho... no offense to nVidia, I have a BFG 7900 GS OC in my personal machine.
My initial attempt is to continue with a dedicated video card for the model in question and to keep the configuration somewhat consistent by staying with an ATI-based card comparable to the 9200 they originally shipped with. I think i've got a lead on some 9250/9550's tho, some 7000's. We'll see what happens... otherwise, we may just need to drop down to the integrated video (Intel Extreme 2). I don't want to move to an nVidia card and muddy the waters tho... no offense to nVidia, I have a BFG 7900 GS OC in my personal machine.