Graphics card

[earlofqb]

Well, a friend of a friend (etc) (yes, my IT skillz are relatively well-known in my area. See what being the local "nerd" gets you?) asked me to find them a new video card. This thing is old, and I'd like your help on finding a replacement. I'd need the exact same model, as the person's motherboard is old and couldn't handle anything new.

Anyway, I'm looking for a:

NVidia GeForce 2 32 MB video card. It has 2x speed (I'm guessing antialiasing is meant?), runs Direct X 7, and has "GTF" (whatever that means). It has to fit in the AGP slot, and lacks a fan (I'm guessing the motherboard doesn't have a slot to put the power supply for said fan anyway, as it's old).

I haven't personally looked for this particular model, mostly because once I see a part that is this ancient, I'd be thinking of getting a new comp. Also, the user themself looked for days on end and couldn't find much, and used the same method I'd have used (searched on Google). So, I'll be needing your online skizzles to at least list a slew of sites I could look at (and if you happen across one of these while on those sites, be sure to tell me while you're at it). Don't be afraid of eBay (although I am ), and any and all help would be most appreciated.

Thank you.

[phycowelder]

im guess would be to try E-BAY!

[Mikrondel]

What? AGP slot? 32MB 2xspeed?
OLD??

I'm running a great little Pentium II machine; its graphics card has no fan, is in a PCI slot and has bugger all memory. The motherboard still has several ISA slots!

Suits my needs great and I love it.

[earlofqb]

Its old for what the person wants to do with it (run modern apps relatively quickly).

Anyone have an answer other than eBay?

[Mikrondel]

What the hell are "Modern Apps"?

My computer can have Opera open with 20 web pages open, MSN in a couple of conversations, be playing music, while I work on that (CPU-intensive, due to DOS emulation) old thing QB, without any noticeable performance loss. It's when I start number-crunching (whether in QB or non) that I start to see the difference.

I hope by "modern apps" you don't mean "sloppily made programs". Sure for realistic 3D games (why the hell would anyone play those ) or some number-crunching office software you actually do 'need' processing power. But if you mean something like Windows Live Mail, yeeuuch! Spelling correction, on a web page? To what degree is HTML to become prostituted?
There's the occasional program that's just ridiculous. Basically in general, programs you pay for are pretty well made. But some aren't.

Anyway, my computer's performance is quite close to a new computer when running reasonable stuff like MS Office and web browsers and DOS programs... is there something resource-demanding these people want? Maybe they just haven't enough RAM...?

[earlofqb]

Don't know, really don't care to ask. This person keeps comps infinately, yet still expects to do things quickly. Also, the fact that their son eternally pines for a new set of games might be what they'd consider "modern apps".

As I said, it's really none of my business and I'm just the messanger. Sure, you can do a lot with elderly comps, but apparantly not what they want to do {shrugs}.

[Mikrondel]

Sorry, you missed my tone. I'm not interested in what these people specifically want to do with the computer. I'm just huffed that people don't respect processor power these days.

That and all the malware that makes a nice thick coating on the internal workings of the comuter, grinding its performance to a halt, on so many carelessly used family computers that people are too AFRAID to protect. Where's the logic there? "Um, I can't get this virus scanner because I don't know how to use a computer."
-- But you can use it enough to access sites that pump malware at you.

Just letting off some steam here. Don't feel bothered to respond.

[Homeloaf]

Hey, ya know what? My first computer that I had until 2 years ago was an XT. It sucked mounds of... well, you know.

[Ildûrest]

Too bad you didn't have the pleasure of comparing it to even earlier computers!

To me, even something like the XT is a wonder. I think I'd actually prefer programming back in those times of real fiddly hardware and crude software and that. Back in the days when not everything within a garage-geek's reach had already been done by someone else. _sigh_

A bientôt!