Video Card recomendation
Hannes Hromadka
Which actual PCI-E video cards are working and recomended for eCS 1.2R?
My passive cooled NVidia GeForce 6600 died. And I need a replacement.
The 6600GT I use right now has a noisy cooler. This is too loud.
Thanks in advance
Hannes
Peter Brown
Presuming you do not have eCS Software Subscription I think you are
limited to whatever SNAP lists in the readme.
You may find some supported cards on eBay.
Regards
Pete
Trevor Hemsley
<jh...@web.de> wrote:
> Which actual PCI-E video cards are working and recomended for eCS 1.2R?
I'm using a PCiE Ati X300Se card with SNAP 3.18 @ 1600x1200x65536@85Hz.
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Hannes Hromadka
Hi
>> Which actual PCI-E video cards are working and recomended for eCS 1.2R?
>>
>> My passive cooled NVidia GeForce 6600 died. And I need a replacement.
>> The 6600GT I use right now has a noisy cooler. This is too loud.
> Presuming you do not have eCS Software Subscription I think you are
> limited to whatever SNAP lists in the readme.
I have eCS Software subscription (reminds me that I have to renew)
So I have access to Panorama driver and all other stuff on ecomstation
SW Subscription area
> You may find some supported cards on eBay.
I prefere to get something new, either in a computer shop or on amazon.
One of the basic questions is the decision for ATI or NVidia.
Now I have NVidia based cards but for Linux (Debian) an ATI based card
would be less pain.
I got the list of supported chipsets for SNAP and Panorama but there are
still hopes that cards not listed there are working too. That's why I ask.
I could not find GeForce 8400GS listed as supported. Anybody got it working?
regards Hannes
Hannes Hromadka
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:54:15 UTC in comp.os.os2.setup.video, Hannes Hromadka
> <jh...@web.de> wrote:
>
>
>>Which actual PCI-E video cards are working and recomended for eCS 1.2R?
>
>
> I'm using a PCiE Ati X300Se card with SNAP 3.18 @ 1600x1200x65536@85Hz.
>
It is listed as supported in the SNAP readme.
Tha last NVidia Card listed there is the 6600
Regards Hannes
Steve Wendt
> I got the list of supported chipsets for SNAP and Panorama but there are
> still hopes that cards not listed there are working too. That's why I ask.
>
> I could not find GeForce 8400GS listed as supported. Anybody got it working?
Any current ATI or Nvidia card will probably work fine with either
driver, in unaccelerated VBE mode. Even without acceleration, the fast
memory they use on all but the cheapest cards makes them fairly usable.
Hannes Hromadka
Hi Steve:
Yes, it works. Now I have a passive cooled 8400GS working in my PC, with
the SNAP driver.
Since my PC seems to eat graficcards, one question about allowed
temperatures.
What is the max. allowed heatsinc temperature on a vide card?
My first 6600 card was passive cooled, and died after 2 Years.
A 6600GT with fan on the heat sinc died after 3 weeks 8-(
I measured 50°C on the heatsink, IMHO that's much.
The airflow in the PC is bad, the PCIE card is mountet with heatsink
down, very close to the next PCI card. Tests with additional fan to get
more airflow between the cards reduced the temp to 34°C.
The new 8400GS has heatsinc temperature of 60°C very soon after powering
on the PC, and now with the fan I am at 40°C.
Ciao,
Hannes
Steve Wendt
> Since my PC seems to eat graficcards, one question about allowed
> temperatures.
>
> What is the max. allowed heatsinc temperature on a vide card?
>
> My first 6600 card was passive cooled, and died after 2 Years.
> A 6600GT with fan on the heat sinc died after 3 weeks 8-(
I saw a fair number of Nvidia cards die - more than other chipsets.
Could be because they have had so much competition between OEMs, so they
went cheap in the manufacturing.
ivan
wrote:
If you want the answer to that go to http://uk.theinquirer.net and
search fot the series of articles about dud nvida manufacturing of
their chips.
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ivan
Peter
This is a very belated reply so I am sorry if it arrives too
late.....;-(
> > Any current ATI or Nvidia card will probably work fine with either
> > driver, in unaccelerated VBE mode. Even without acceleration, the fast
> > memory they use on all but the cheapest cards makes them fairly usable.
>
> Yes, it works. Now I have a passive cooled 8400GS working in my PC, with
> the SNAP driver.
I run eCS 1.2R and eCS 2.0 Betas using fairly recent ATI Radeon 4350
Cards. SNAP does not fully support these modern cards (except if you
lock them in VESA mode) so I use the Panorama Driver for VESA and that
seems to work great.
> Since my PC seems to eat graficcards, one question about allowed
> temperatures.
The low end ATI cards (such as the HD 4350 or even the 3??? ) do not
have fans and do not generate much heat at all, so they are pretty
good in that respect. As long as you don't need blazingly fast
Graphics work, I think the Panorama driver works fine for these.
Cheers..........pk.
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Peter from Auckland.
Felix Miata
> Which actual PCI-E video cards are working and recomended for eCS 1.2R?
> My passive cooled NVidia GeForce 6600 died. And I need a replacement.
> The 6600GT I use right now has a noisy cooler. This is too loud.
I use ATI X600 PCIe cards with passive coolers. They retain both proprietary
and VESA legacy SVGA text mode support, which I use for DOS apps. All NVidia
cards I've tried don't.
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