Please help me ID this card. I know it's a RADEON 7000, but is there a specific model? It doesn't match the desc.

[simms]

I went to http://apps.ati.com/102lookup/ to ID my card, with a 102 number of 1028111001.

Mine is not a standard VGA output, rather it's kinda strange. It came with a dual monitor VGA cable, but the card itself only has ONE port. The cable has the connector for that ONE port, and on the other it has TWO VGA ports. Something similar to yours, or would you happen to know what card it is? It's a manufactured ATI card, built by ATI. Is there a full name for it? Like it has no VGA output, but this funny one.

edit: apparently it's called a DVI-I Dual Link port? Is this a special version of the 7000?

Thanks,
Simon

 

[Lord Evermore]

Odd that there is such a card. The Matrox Parhelia uses the same type of port to enable 3-monitor setups. If you use one monitor on your card, you can just connect it to the port. If you want to use two monitors, you attach the adapter. Since monitors don't use every pin available, I presume that they make the empty pins on the port be for the secondary monitor, and the cable connects those pins to the standard positions on the end connector, and the other connector goes to the standard pins on the port.

Not sure what effect that would have if you wanted to use a DVI and a VGA monitor, if the cable only has VGA connectors you can't use a digital cable from the monitor.

Doesn't the card have any information silk-screened on it, or with a sticker? Where did you get it?

Oh I looked at the information on it. It's a Dell card. It's an OEM design, made specially for Dell, that's why it's not a "normal" card. It should be pretty much the same thing as a regular 7000, just with the odd connector. You can download a program like PowerStrip to verify that the clock speeds match the normal retail clock.

 

[simms]

Thanks. In terms of resell value (if I want to FS/T it), aside from being OEM is there anything else I should state? Like say "It only has one output, being a DVI-I Dual Link port, but I have a dual VGA adapter for it..?"

Thanks

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: simms
Thanks. In terms of resell value (if I want to FS/T it), aside from being OEM is there anything else I should state? Like say "It only has one output, being a DVI-I Dual Link port, but I have a dual VGA adapter for it..?"

Thanks

the card is an OEM Dell(recently acquired one..plays very well )the connector on the card is actually a Molex connector

The connector is based on the Molex P&D-A EVC standard shell and requires the use of a dongle (Y-cable) that ships with the card.

(very complicated.. Dell..as linked...you do not want to lose your dongle. Molex..shows internal parta as being available to repair one..I'd just try not to damage or lose it.
the card was used mostly on workstations... value with dongle..$20 to $30 ..no dongle...you could pin-out it to VGA ...very ymmv on the results..yeah spent too much time researching that when got the card...

 

[Lord Evermore]

Ugh, why would Dell provide a card that can't function at all without a dongle? That's just asking for trouble with no benefits from doing it that way.