Lowest power agp card ?

[Soulkeeper]

i need this for a headless box, preferably under 50 bucks

thanks

 

[Denithor]

Probably a fanless FX5200 or FX5500 is your best bet, there are a couple @ newegg for like $30 + shipping. Try to find one with 128-bit memory interface, it'll be slightly faster.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be about as cheap to just swap motherboards for something with IGP? That should give lower power consumption than any discrete card available.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i'll consider pci also, long as it works in a i875 board

 

[Soulkeeper]

Radeon 7000 pci can anything beat this ??

how many watts do you think this will pull ??

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
Radeon 7000 pci can anything beat this ??

how many watts do you think this will pull ??

AMD no longer provides driver support for that card, I would not get it.

Try this 6200 instead.

 

[Andrew1990]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
Radeon 7000 pci can anything beat this ??

how many watts do you think this will pull ??

AMD no longer provides driver support for that card, I would not get it.

Try this 6200 instead.

Double Lifetime warranty also from XFX.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Denithor
Probably a fanless FX5200 or FX5500 is your best bet, there are a couple @ newegg for like $30 + shipping. Try to find one with 128-bit memory interface, it'll be slightly faster.

He said power consumption is most important, performance least important, so your recommendation is a GPU that was poor at both, then encourage a 128-bit interface for better performance (which also will consume slightly more power). Bad day for reading?

FX 5 Series is currently supported only under XP. W2000 drivers were retired but the final driver should be very stable. There are no Vista drivers except a BETA RC2 driver that will install on RTM and SP1 but may be buggy as hell.

Radeon 7000 ~ 9250 has been completely retired even for XP/2000, but the final driver should be very stable. Vista has XPDM drivers in-box that will provide basic function only.

Is this for Linux? You may want to go with Radeon 8500 ~ 9250. I seem to recall reading there are stable fully functioning open source drivers for ATI R200 (no missing, partial, or buggy feature support). I'm not sure about Radeon 7000, which is R100, not R200.

Not sure what NV chips have similarly good open source drivers. You can also find tools to edit the VGA BIOS for most GPUs and downclock the core/mem to reduce power consumption.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i don't need drivers, as i run linux

 

[Soulkeeper]

all i need is black and white

 

[ViRGE]

If you're going to run Linux, then yeah, you can get the Radeon. That decrepit thing is for sure supported with built-in drivers, I'm not sure NV30 or NV40 are fully supported by anything other than NV's binary blob drivers at this time.

 

[IlllI]

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[Soulkeeper]

lol

thanks everyone

 

[unr3al]

Well I have one reply: Get rid of the old motherboard and replace it with an IGP board? A board that supports your CPU, RAM etc of course. There are still plenty of socket 478 boards around. It would be the most power-efficient solution you could ever get lol

 

[evolucion8]

Well since all the Radeon cards under the 9500 series are descontinued on driver development (Including ATi Rage) I would suggest going for a cheap 9550 or 9600 series. (For use on Windows 2000 or above) For usage for older OS or Linux, a 9250, 9200 or 8500 will do fine. The same with nVidia, a GeForce FX or below is no longer updated in the driver database. So the best bet could be a 6200 or 6500 or 7200GS (For Windows 2000 and above) For linux a GeForce FX 5500 or lower, GeForce 4200Ti or GeForce 3 will do fine. (GeForce FX 5800 and 5900 are a bit of the power sucking side.)

 

[Lorne]

You can get a AGP for $11 shipped on pricwatch driver support unknown, Or a Gforce2MX for $15 shipped and I know you can still pull those drivers off Nvidia.