On 15 apr, 08:53, Paul <nos...@needed.com> wrote:
> 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 *$33http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127317
>
> Click the "products supported" for a list of cards supported by the driver..
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21_whql.html
>
> *******
>
> 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 $40http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161080
>
> 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
>
> *******
>
> 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...NE&N=201038004....
>
> These pages can help decipher the vital statistics.
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/200503050...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

I've looked here in the shops for passively cooled agp dual monitor
cards.

What do you think of these (they have to handle at least a resolution
of 1440x900):

* Gigabyte Geforce 7600 GS 256 MB (GV-N76G256D-RH)

Is the max power draw of 32 W too much for this computer?
The interface is AGP 8X and my current one is AGP 4X. If my
motherbord can handle only 4X will this work?

* XFX GeForce 6200A 256 MB (PV-T44A-WANG)


The second one is two times as expensive as the first one.