Rogues gallery for AGP cards.

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I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium
shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's
nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a
large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA
connector it has a TV out connector and DVI.

Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit
like an identity parade?

Thanks for any help.
 
Ian said:
I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an
aluminium shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings
whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the
shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main
heatsink. As well as the regular VGA connector it has a TV out connector
and DVI.

Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a
bit like an identity parade?

Thanks for any help.
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Something like an FX5900 perhaps ? With the glue-on logo missing ?

http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/07/14/vga_card_buyer/leadtek-a350td_myvivo-2.jpg

This site at least, lists the chip number.

http://www.gpureview.com/GeForce-FX-5900-Ultra-card-161.html

FX 5900 Ultra NV35

So you can narrow it down a bit, using the chip number. But
there isn't a one-to-one mapping from chip number to card. The
same chip can be used on several cards.

You could take a picture of the card, and upload to imageshack.us .
Then post a link to the photo here afterwards.

Also, Google has an image search function, where you can actually
upload your snapshot, and they try and match it. But the matching
algorithm is a joke, and I've never got anything except
"vague color matches" from the thing. So if I submit a pink and green
picture, it finds other pink and green objects. It's not
sophisticated enough to match the shape or function. If you combine
the image with a few search words like "video card", then you
get video card images back. So the image isn't really adding anything
to the search as a result.

Paul
 
I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium
shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's
nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a
large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA
connector it has a TV out connector and DVI.

Is there a sort of "rogues gallery" that I might pick it out from - a bit
like an identity parade?

Thanks for any help.
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Chipped with a television demodulator that should narrow the options.
Most boards I've been around with that were inexpensive but dedicated
to television in conjunction with the main graphics display boards;-
only a couple chipmakers (Conextant?) to supply them inasmuch over
however many brand/board implementations. They're of course a
different breed of animal now (imagine mine were PCI slotted if not my
first on even earlier bus architecture).

If you can't read it with software for potential information in
narrowing down specs, (haven't a comparably equipped/slotted
computer), for practical intents AGP just *may* fall within an extant
Ebay search for Nvida on what qualifiers indeed you do have (teevee
endowed, FX series nomenclature, et al... Matter of recognition
patterns for a visual sighting, as Paul already mentioned).
 
Mike Tomlinson said:
You can use the generic drivers from nvidia.com, these are the ones you
want for XP (but they do have them for 7)

http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers/results/5130
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That link opens a page with XP selected as the OS, I already downloaded it
just in case - the link previously given goes to the manufacturers website
where there is another link to their download area.

Chances are, I won't even bother trying anything higher than XP on an old
AGP MOBO - its the sort of thing I might build up for a project I don't want
tying up my main PC.
 
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