Trashbytes wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:52:There is a HD4350, HD5450 and HD7350 model too, nothing for the HD6000 or HD8000 OEM series though. […]
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acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:12:I might try anyway 😃 […]
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I might try anyway 😃
It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.
Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).
Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.
There is a HD4350, HD5450 and HD7350 model too, nothing for the HD6000 or HD8000 OEM series though.
IIRC the GT430 PCI would be the last PCI card from nVidia, I could be wrong and there is some obscure later model but I doubt it. (Been after one of the Zotac GT430 PCI models for a long while now, either they are too expensive or no shipping to AUS)
The other option for nVidia is a 8400GS PCI or 9400GT PCI
I have the 7350 PCI and its an ok SFF additional display card if you really dont have anything better 🤣.
I have the Sparkle 9400GT PCI it's not bad for being PCI, though you'd really only want to play games older than the card. IIRC it put the WEI graphics score to 3.5 up from 2 on chipset onboard GFX. I think there were some GT210 rebranded versions of it also.
I originally intended to use it in a Dell that cut it's addressable memory in half if you used PCIe graphics, only 2GB available. But the damn thing was so obtuse that it won't initialise graphics in a regular PCI slot ... there was another OEM machine that behaved like this also but details are escaping me on that one. It works great in systems where there are more options 🤣 That might be a factor in why PCI cards fizzled out, you couldn't bandaid the broken design of cheapo systems any more they were too broke. I'm not saying it never works, but it feels to me like late PCI gfx do best if you haven't got AGP, rather than haven't got PCIe... meaning if the chipset would have supported AGP but it's tied to the integrated, or wasn't brought out to a slot, then PCI is likely to work. If it's a system with internal PCIe, no matter how bad your other options, the PCI gfx are much less likely to work. Feels similar to where late PCI/AGP systems don't bother initialising ISA graphics. DDR-DDR2 also might be an inflection point, indicating a cutoff where PCI graphics support is less likely. Just saying be cautious, don't be paying the now very inflated PCI card prices hoping it will solve a problem on one of the systems that fits the post AGP, DDR2+ archetype, without a lot of googling to see if it works on that machine because the dice look loaded against it. There must be some cases where they are more ideal though or the later ones would be cheaper and easier to find.
