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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium
shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA connector it has a TV out connector and DVI. Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit like an identity parade? Thanks for any help. |
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
Ian Field wrote:
I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA connector it has a TV out connector and DVI. Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit like an identity parade? Thanks for any help. Something like an FX5900 perhaps ? With the glue-on logo missing ? http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/...d_myvivo-2.jpg This site at least, lists the chip number. http://www.gpureview.com/GeForce-FX-...-card-161.html FX 5900 Ultra NV35 So you can narrow it down a bit, using the chip number. But there isn't a one-to-one mapping from chip number to card. The same chip can be used on several cards. You could take a picture of the card, and upload to imageshack.us . Then post a link to the photo here afterwards. Also, Google has an image search function, where you can actually upload your snapshot, and they try and match it. But the matching algorithm is a joke, and I've never got anything except "vague color matches" from the thing. So if I submit a pink and green picture, it finds other pink and green objects. It's not sophisticated enough to match the shape or function. If you combine the image with a few search words like "video card", then you get video card images back. So the image isn't really adding anything to the search as a result. Paul |
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 17:10:15 +0100, "Ian Field"
wrote: I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA connector it has a TV out connector and DVI. Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit like an identity parade? Thanks for any help. Chipped with a television demodulator that should narrow the options. Most boards I've been around with that were inexpensive but dedicated to television in conjunction with the main graphics display boards;- only a couple chipmakers (Conextant?) to supply them inasmuch over however many brand/board implementations. They're of course a different breed of animal now (imagine mine were PCI slotted if not my first on even earlier bus architecture). If you can't read it with software for potential information in narrowing down specs, (haven't a comparably equipped/slotted computer), for practical intents AGP just *may* fall within an extant Ebay search for Nvida on what qualifiers indeed you do have (teevee endowed, FX series nomenclature, et al... Matter of recognition patterns for a visual sighting, as Paul already mentioned). |
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
"Paul" wrote in message ... Ian Field wrote: I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA connector it has a TV out connector and DVI. Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit like an identity parade? Thanks for any help. Something like an FX5900 perhaps ? With the glue-on logo missing ? http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/...d_myvivo-2.jpg Thanks - the picture in that link looks just like it (except mine is missing its label). It arrived in a job lot box that included several other "Winfast" items - so you've probably nailed it. Thanks again. |
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
"Paul" wrote in message ... Ian Field wrote: I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA connector it has a TV out connector and DVI. Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit like an identity parade? Thanks for any help. Something like an FX5900 perhaps ? With the glue-on logo missing ? http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/...d_myvivo-2.jpg Thanks - you did nail it, FX5900 is right on the money. With a bit of searching I got to the Leadtek website and found drivers upto XP, its pretty unlikely I'd try to use anything higher than that on an old AGP MOBO anyway. |
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
En el artículo , Ian Field gangprobing
escribió: With a bit of searching I got to the Leadtek website and found drivers upto XP, You can use the generic drivers from nvidia.com, these are the ones you want for XP (but they do have them for 7) http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers/results/5130 -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ... En el artículo , Ian Field gangprobing escribió: With a bit of searching I got to the Leadtek website and found drivers upto XP, You can use the generic drivers from nvidia.com, these are the ones you want for XP (but they do have them for 7) http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers/results/5130 That link opens a page with XP selected as the OS, I already downloaded it just in case - the link previously given goes to the manufacturers website where there is another link to their download area. Chances are, I won't even bother trying anything higher than XP on an old AGP MOBO - its the sort of thing I might build up for a project I don't want tying up my main PC. |
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