I'm going to second Wendy's mention of the eVGA card (Light Version). I picked one up today (I live near a couple of Central Computers locations), and as a bonus, it's on sale until the end of tomorrow (for those of you in the SF Bay Area).
The card has the GeForce 5200FX chipset, with DVI, VGA and S-Video outputs, and the package included an S-Video cable and a DVI to VGA adaptor (so you could do dual-VGA if you want). The picture looks pretty good, much better than the GeForce 440MX it replaced. I agree with Jarod's (Wilson) contention that with the flicker-filter enabled in the nVidia driver (and de-interlacing disabled in MythTV), the picture is pretty smooth, except for the odd jitter in slower scrolling screen messages (fast scrolling is pretty choppy though). -- Joe --- Didde Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04 feb 2005, at 09.00, Brandon Beattie wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:48:04PM -0500, Robert > Tsai wrote: > >> Can anyone identify passively-cooled (heatsink > only, no fan) FX5200 > >> graphics cards with DVI output? > >> > >> I've only been able to identify the Gainward > Pro/660 (VGFX5200DTL) on > >> the manufacturer website: > >> http://www.gainwardusa.com/products/vga_660dt.htm > . Unfortunately, > >> this card seems to be rather hard to find (out of > stock at most of the > >> big online retailers). > >> > >> I've seen hints of others (Inno3D Tornado, Asus > V9520-X/TD-128), but > >> I'd like to be sure, because there is variation > even within a > >> manufacturer. For example, the eVGA website shows > passive heatsinks in > >> all their pictures, but when I ordered one, I > discovered that it had a > >> fan. So now I don't trust website pictures > without text; only > >> Gainward's website specifically identifies the > passive cooling > >> mechanism. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> --Rob > > > > Active cooling is not always bad. If you have a > location in your case > > where air movement is stale, active is a good > idea. A good case won't > > have a dead spot and so passive is prefered mostly > because it's one > > less > > thing to go bad, as noise on it is so minor. > > Well, I used ASUS version of the 5200 with active > cooling and let me > tell you – its noise was _far_ from "minor". > Actually, I had to buy a > new cooling kit for it as the noise level was > intolerable (for me). > YMMV as usual though. > > > Kindly, > Didde > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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