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NOTE: The first few people have gotten theirs and they seem not to be the cards pictured on the Geeks.com site. If you order one, you should assume that it has a fan on a smaller heatsink. Also, the first person to get theirs (mellondust) has had trouble with the card not working. Probably best not to order until we get this sorted out with the Geeks.
I was looking at geeks.com to find a cheap PCI-e video card to stick in a Linux box I'm building. This one stuck out as being a pretty good deal amongst all the 6200's, X550's and 7300GT's.
http://www.geeks.com/details.a...00GS-128HDTV-P&cat=VCD
Shipping is $8.00 to Texas.
Seems pretty good for such a cheap card, and the silent aspect is nice. This should outperform a 6600GT, which can't be said for most cards in this price range. This card would certainly be awesome for older games, and it does h.264 acceleration for HTPC applications. The only problem is that the heatsink is pretty big, definitely more than 1 slot, but I guess you can't win 'em all. At least it looks hefty enough to do a good job of cooling the card.
Anyway, I'm not sure how hot this is, but it seems like the best deal that I can find right now on a low-end PCI-e graphics card.
edited to change link and price from Evertek to Geeks
edited again to change price to reflect 10% off using coupon code "mc exclusives", thanks to BIGFOOTPI
UPDATE: I have got mine, as have several others. It definitely has a fan, although it is very quiet. Mine worked with no problems out of the box, and it has Hynix 1.4GHz DDR3 memory, which is nice. The problem is that some tools (Riva Tuner, Everest) show 4 vertex shaders and 8 pixel shaders (indicating a 7300GT) while others (ATITool, GPU Caps) show 5 vertex and 12 pixel (indicating a 7600GS). I don't know which to believe. I am still unhappy that it is simply not as pictured/described on the Geeks.com site. To see what the card generally looks like (especially the heatsink) see this card:
http://www.geeks.com/details.a...600-512MTV-P&cpc=RECOM
The heatsink is exactly the same, although some of the other details of the card are different.
FINAL UPDATE: After a bit more testing, I decided to return mine. Regardless of the pipes/etc., the card is simply not what was listed on the site, and I have a problem with that.
So I called the Geeks at 760-726-7700 (took 11 minutes total for the call), and they are e-mailing me a prepaid FedEx label. I just have to drop off the box at a FedEx location, and I will get a full refund. I can't say that I'm happy with the situation, but at least they are taking care of it.
dead update Seems to be dead. mellondust says that Geeks is taking them down temporarily due to the issue of having different ones with 3 (!) different heatsinks. They are going to go through them all and figure out which is which.
I was looking at geeks.com to find a cheap PCI-e video card to stick in a Linux box I'm building. This one stuck out as being a pretty good deal amongst all the 6200's, X550's and 7300GT's.
http://www.geeks.com/details.a...00GS-128HDTV-P&cat=VCD
Shipping is $8.00 to Texas.
Seems pretty good for such a cheap card, and the silent aspect is nice. This should outperform a 6600GT, which can't be said for most cards in this price range. This card would certainly be awesome for older games, and it does h.264 acceleration for HTPC applications. The only problem is that the heatsink is pretty big, definitely more than 1 slot, but I guess you can't win 'em all. At least it looks hefty enough to do a good job of cooling the card.
Anyway, I'm not sure how hot this is, but it seems like the best deal that I can find right now on a low-end PCI-e graphics card.
edited to change link and price from Evertek to Geeks
edited again to change price to reflect 10% off using coupon code "mc exclusives", thanks to BIGFOOTPI
UPDATE: I have got mine, as have several others. It definitely has a fan, although it is very quiet. Mine worked with no problems out of the box, and it has Hynix 1.4GHz DDR3 memory, which is nice. The problem is that some tools (Riva Tuner, Everest) show 4 vertex shaders and 8 pixel shaders (indicating a 7300GT) while others (ATITool, GPU Caps) show 5 vertex and 12 pixel (indicating a 7600GS). I don't know which to believe. I am still unhappy that it is simply not as pictured/described on the Geeks.com site. To see what the card generally looks like (especially the heatsink) see this card:
http://www.geeks.com/details.a...600-512MTV-P&cpc=RECOM
The heatsink is exactly the same, although some of the other details of the card are different.
FINAL UPDATE: After a bit more testing, I decided to return mine. Regardless of the pipes/etc., the card is simply not what was listed on the site, and I have a problem with that.
So I called the Geeks at 760-726-7700 (took 11 minutes total for the call), and they are e-mailing me a prepaid FedEx label. I just have to drop off the box at a FedEx location, and I will get a full refund. I can't say that I'm happy with the situation, but at least they are taking care of it.
dead update Seems to be dead. mellondust says that Geeks is taking them down temporarily due to the issue of having different ones with 3 (!) different heatsinks. They are going to go through them all and figure out which is which.