HDI wrote:
>
>> I don't know what type of connectors you are looking for
>> in a graphics card.
>
> I was thinking of one vga and one dvi-i connector.
>
>> Or, you could get the 9250, if you wanted to run a couple VGA connector
>> equipped monitors. Drivers should be less of a problem, unless you're
>> trying to run Vista or something.
>
> It's for Windows xp pro.
MSI NX6200AX-TD256H D2 GeForce 6200 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 AGP 8X Video Card - Retail $33
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127317
Click the "products supported" for a list of cards supported by the driver.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21_whql.html
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On the ATI side, this card is passively cooled (meaning low input power).
HIS Hightech H955H256-1TOAN Radeon 9550 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail $40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161080
This is the driver obtained, when I looked for something for 9250. 6.11 means
the driver was released Nov.2006. The actual product support list doesn't list
the 9250 explicitly on this download page.
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/x...rer300-xp.html
The 9550, on the other hand, shows up in the 8.3 driver, which would have
been released Mar. 2008. Which means the support is a little more recent
(even if new code was probably not added for such an old card). The 9550
is supposed to be DX9 in hardware. (The 9250 is listed as DX8.1 .)
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...=xp/radeonx-xp
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The above two cards aren't too expensive.
You can have a look through the list here, and visually check for the VGA/DVI-I
connector combination you want, and select a card with passive cooling and
good reviews.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Subcategory=4
These pages can help decipher the vital statistics.
http://web.archive.org/web/200503050...ydajnosci.html http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/ http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php
A note on passively cooled cards. I have a couple FX5200 cards, both passively
cooled. One is stable without a fan pointed at it, and the other needs a
fan pointed at it, to be stable. So even though they provided a heatsink,
that doesn't mean the heatsink was installed very well, or was tested
thoroughly. I use an 80mm fan mounted in an adjacent slot to the
card that isn't so stable, to help cool it.
HTH,
Paul