Got my XFX One PCI-E vidcard

Under $15US shipped w/ no rebates or catches.

Does simultaneous displays - a couple large LEDs be nice, if that
weren't so guady. I really haven't room for that sort of setup.

Three different resolutions according to 3 display-type outputs
available, too.

Wish I could find a core driver solution - as in vastly reduced. I'm
already dreading what I'll find in the way of ATI's untold megabytes
bundled into unified packaging. Don't do games, so if it'll help any
bottlenecks, rendering video or bringing overall system streaming up a
balanced notch - way cool.

Nice looking card and packaging - very slick, more like a $35 add-on,
anyday. I therefore have kicked serious butt in the deals dept,
provided the thing powers up when it gets plugged in to one of those
PCI-E slots, I've had for years and years, but never until now used.

Score another one for BestBuy's clearance deals.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:06:04 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Does simultaneous displays

--
VGA connector comes up locked into 640x480 on MONITOR 1. Being a
simultaneous display chipset, only one of the *other* connectors -
HDMI, DVI - shows the full spectrum of resolutions. Obviously,
that's only MONITOR 2, which won't be reassigned to ONE, which I don't
have.

Of course it's screwed on my system, which couldn't be more natural.
Did, though, manage a manual install of 100meg of ATI Unified Drivers
into 3meg added driver resources (pointed Device Management driver
updates to the appropriate ATI driver inf files, and it grabbed what
it could, I guess). Works beautifully once and only once with all the
resolutions available: next time on a reboot, Windows shuts down the
ATI board and locks it into 640x480.

Oh, well - then there's more cables and ten tons of adaptors to try
and buy. Buying computers and catching and skinning cats. Got to love
the industry at times, the way it loves to standardize how to shoot
itself in the foot. Obviously, the handheld, telephone & cloud-only
crowds do.

Radeon 5450?

On 26/07/2013 1:06 AM, Flasherly wrote:
Under $15US shipped w/ no rebates or catches.

Does simultaneous displays - a couple large LEDs be nice, if that
weren't so guady. I really haven't room for that sort of setup.



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On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:04:08 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:


Radeon 5450?

On 26/07/2013 1:06 AM, Flasherly wrote:
Under $15US shipped w/ no rebates or catches.

Does simultaneous displays - a couple large LEDs be nice, if that
weren't so guady. I really haven't room for that sort of setup.

Dear Mr. Chang --
Make no mistake, you are either the weirdest, or it's got to be me.
Look at the times we both posted since that first post. We posted
almost to the second together.

(Yea, a nothing-special board, marginal by way of newer vid-chipped
MBs -- my MBs are 3 maybe 4 yrs old, so I *might* get something off it
by way better vid-encode playback.)

On 27/07/2013 12:09 AM, Flasherly wrote:
Dear Mr. Chang --
Make no mistake, you are either the weirdest, or it's got to be me.
Look at the times we both posted since that first post. We posted
almost to the second together.

Have a cup of tea... Cheers!

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On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:28:22 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

On 27/07/2013 12:09 AM, Flasherly wrote:
Dear Mr. Chang --
Make no mistake, you are either the weirdest, or it's got to be me.
Look at the times we both posted since that first post. We posted
almost to the second together.

Have a cup of tea... Cheers!

Cheers, then. And coffee if it's all the same. . .
http://kitchenarts.com/products/PPG-...-in-Italy.html

It's the same, only in chrome. (Unless I've had two or three or four -
neat. ) Bottoms up!

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:04:00 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:06:04 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Does simultaneous displays


Put the 5450 on another Gigabyte MB, this time an AMD chipset support
over dualcore 2X 4000 or some such. (A no go on 1st-tried Gigabyte w/
a P4 dually.) The VGA connector took and works fine - full spectrum of
resolutions right off available for an old 19" Samsung. Have to see
now that it takes no less perfectly to a 40" NEC and how VGA
renditions improve if any - if not, my jaw doesn't drop the floor
immediately, may have optionally HDMI DVI connectors to play with
(it's getting to be a pretty old NEC, though). Probably works on that
machine because of an uncluttered and newer XP revision (which it
supports, XP, although I didn't do the driver install on either, per
se, but did the pick 'yer own routine from ATI's directory catalyst
*.INF offerings - both for audio/vid compliance (with audio being new
to me, of course, from DVI/HDMI spec sheets I've never yet had - and
new speaker routing options possible). 3meg install well could beat
what 100meg actually means from a formal ATI Unified Setup (I'm not
big into clutter, all else being equal). Little toasty for cramped
across the case - back of the card literally butting heads with the HD
array - but if you like building, that's the oldest song going for the
smallest violin ever made. Oh, yea - and the BIOS curiously had GPU
recognition correlations as for whether it's chipset should augment
the system, while not (a switch) PEG being present. I turned it off
for now.

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:50:16 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Little toasty

No sensors so measured its black mass with a laser sensor gun's
projector LED beam and it's 115F with the case cover off. Definitely
going to be toasty once locked down and in.

Flasherly wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:50:16 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Little toasty

No sensors so measured its black mass with a laser sensor gun's
projector LED beam and it's 115F with the case cover off. Definitely
going to be toasty once locked down and in.

If the card is fanless, and your case has a rear exhaust fan,
the temperature will actually go down (because there will be air
moving across the fins). When the side is off the case, the airflow
is no longer constrained.

And give the readout on GPUZ a try. Do a measurement with the side
off, and with the side on. And see which direction the temperature
heads (up or down).

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

Paul

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 04:11:13 -0400, Paul wrote:

Flasherly wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:50:16 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Little toasty

No sensors so measured its black mass with a laser sensor gun's
projector LED beam and it's 115F with the case cover off. Definitely
going to be toasty once locked down and in.

If the card is fanless, and your case has a rear exhaust fan,
the temperature will actually go down (because there will be air
moving across the fins). When the side is off the case, the airflow
is no longer constrained.

And give the readout on GPUZ a try. Do a measurement with the side
off, and with the side on. And see which direction the temperature
heads (up or down).

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

Paul

Good idea, haven't heard of GPU-Z long enough to have about forgotten
it. I've seen some really outrageous comebacks from ATI technicians
in support forums they support -- these cards being "intended" near in
excess of 175F for operational characteristics. Sounds fine, although
nothing I'd care to handle in the Southern savannas. The case is near
a Rosewill clone of Antec's 300 series, perhaps scaled down slightly,
tight in there nonetheless. Also, incorporated into and entertainment
center, there's limits to how it is situated presently to fit -- on
it's side, I've air directed in across the HDs from the front panel,
as well from directly over the CPU. Outgoing is solely the PS,
obviously not much of a rear exhaust but gentler at not blowing up
dust onto the wall directly behind. Perhaps if GPU-Z will detect it, I
may consider other fan options.

Putting the card through its paces, though, I'm not really seeing much
of an improvement, a practical intent I use it for video decode
playback, over what the MB's vidchipset performance generates;-
although that's neither having switched first to give DVI/HDMI due
consideration, or making a test run through the full ATI driver
install for what further potentials may be. Nope, nothing especially
eye-catching so far. May in fact be better suited the P4 dually MB if
I can get past and over essentially a quagmire of driver history
usages, conflicts, and plain outdatedness. Might slip it the "Mickey"
and get through that maze by activating Monitor 2 by way of DVI/HDMI;-
Monitor 1 (VGA port only) effectively comes up shot in the foot, once
only normally operational, thereupon locking in itself at 640x480 upon
a very next reboot. A very much whacked, but sentimental system.