Shuttle graphics Solution

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:10

Adding another HTPC to the house for the bedroom.Need a decent-ish Graphics card for it as i would like the odd game of BF2.

Budget would be about £100-£130 and not a FANBOY so either Nvidia or Radeon.Would also consider 2nd hand but would like to know what would fit plus be quiet enough for my needs.

Any thoughts?

Edit:- it's a PCI-E Shuttle.

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:15

ST20G5

Thanks.

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:29

Thanks for deleting the other thread and for answering here.Do either of the cards you mention support HDTV?Have a 32" Samsung LCD that this will be plugging into.

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:29

Sorry just spotted it does

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:33

That looks like a cracking deal. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-134-SP

Been out of the "leading edge" graphics market for quite sometime,well in PC terms anyway.Last decent card i had was a X1900XT.Are these cards anywhere near the performance of that as they seem remarkably cheap?

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:45

Is this a single slot and if so how would it compare to the X1950?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-089-LT

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:49

Will do mate,thanks for all the help

Sparky · 30 Jan 2007 at 20:00

By a surprisingly high margin as well.Ok you have convinced me time to hit the CC.Thanks again mate.

Sparky · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:40

Change of plan for me due to the x2 3800 i had tucked away for this HTPC failing to power up.Probably due mainly to me dropping it then standing on it with my size 10's :eek:

Aquired or in the process of aquiring a 7600GT for now and a San Diego 4000.
X1950Pro will have to hold off until next month now :rolleyes:

Seperate note.Been reading the Shuttle website and various writeups on the ST20G5 and there seems to be a issue with Sata drives,added to that i do not have a floppy drive in any of the 4 pcs we have in this house :rolleyes:

Can you instal the Sata Driver from a CD/DVD?

Sparky · 1 Feb 2007 at 21:19

Just connected the drive upto my sons SN85G4 and it recognised the HDD.Didnt use any install software.How can that work?I thought you had to have sata drivers installed.

Sparky · 1 Feb 2007 at 21:37

Minstadave said:
You don't need drivers for a single drive, just for RAID setups.

Ahh that explains that then.My boy thinks he just inherited a 250GB SATA drive as i thought i couldnt connect it to this

Yes WoZZeR it was in a clean install of XP.12 year old kid's seem to pickup Viruses at will Grrrrr so his machine gets formatted once a month wether it needs it or not

Sparky · 3 Feb 2007 at 23:08

So i could run a pair as long as they are not raided?