Can a half-height PNY FX5200 video card have a 128-bit memory bus?

[bupkus]

I bought the PNY FX5200 but it's a half-height card w/ full-height bracket. Can I buy half-height brackets to replace these should I in the future want to port these to a thinner case?

Can a half-height video card have a 128-bit memory bus?
If not, then PNY has lied.

It only posted 5085 3DMark2k1 pts on the target computer, which is ok for kids stuff. Am I paying a performance penalty by having a half-height card? I actually don't care so much if it's a 5200 as I do care that I could get a 5200 full-height that will perform better for the same $60 (AMIR).

 

[MDE]

It's possible to have a half-height 128-bit card, but they never explicitly say "128 bit memory bus."

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: MDE
It's possible to have a half-height 128-bit card, but they never explicitly say "128 bit memory bus."

From the PNY website:

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS

128-bit Studio-Precision Color <<< Is this what I'm looking for?
The industries best image quality for the most demanding applications.

GeForce FX 5200 AGP FEATURES
High-Performance, High Precision 3D Rendering Engine
4 pixels per clock rendering engine
128-bit, studio quality floating point precision through the entire graphics pipeline <<< Or this?

Support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating point and 32-bit integer rendering modes <<< Or this?
Up to 16 textures per pass
Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
DirectX and S3TC texture compression

 

[MDE]

Nope, that's not it. That's just color depth, not the memory bus. What's the memory speed on the card?

 

[bupkus]

What really PMO is using newegg to gather information. The one I saw there was listed as 128-bit and full height, but the one I got at BB was half-height. Now I don't know what I have and I've decided to take them back before my 30 days are up.

These card builders can give you all kinds of worthless information, but intentionally hide information you can use. Well, hell, time to buy the products of those folks who don't have something to hide.

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: MDE
Nope, that's not it. That's just color depth, not the memory bus. What's the memory speed on the card?

Please take a look at the link to PNY above. I guess they just don't list it.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

It's 64-bit. IIRC, the only 128-bit low-profile cards are Quadros and FireGLs.

- M4H

 

[SneakyStuff]

I used to have a PNY full height 5200, and it was 128 bit, that doesnt appear to be, look at what M4H said, he's right 🙂

 

[bupkus]

I just returned them to BB.