Which low profile card?

[Scelestus]

Greetings

I've been googling for the past 2 hours and I just can't figure out which card would be best for my "slim" TV-top PC(which I would like to use for gaming aswell as media playback).
It would seem I have a choice between FX5200 series cards, Radeon 9200s and Radeon 9600SE...

If you know of any other solutions I'd greatly appreciate the feedback.

Thanks!

 

[Nights_L]

Radeon9100 maybe? 9600np? GF4Ti4200? these are cheap and solid cards.. especially Ti4200, it should be able to last for a while
no SE cards, no FX below 5700, they are not good choice

 

[Scelestus]

I wasn't aware that there was a low profile implementation of the TI4200 chipset, could you perhaps tell me which manufacturer makes one?

 

[Vimp]

FX5200 might not be a bad choice. Theres alot of different types of FX5200 cards. I was noticing that the FX5200 Ultra is actually clocked higher then the FX5700 non-Ultra which is suprising I thought. Some cards you may also find at pretty cheap prices are the FX5600 and especialy the FX5600XT cards.

 

[Scelestus]

Thanks for the reply, Vimp.
I don't really mind how much the card costs, I'm trying to put together the fastest low profile system I can.
The fastest card I have been able to find in low profile size has been the Elsa Gladiac 628LP which is a Geforce 4 TI4200, but I have not seen anything faster than that in the smaller form factor.

 

[jmecor]

the 9500 pro are fast and also quite cheap nowadays.

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[Vimp]

I've heard lots of good things about the G4 Ti4200 so if thats what your looking at then you probably can't go wrong with that. However a word of warning. The brand you mention certainly isn''t a popular brand so if you can you may wanna look for a more well known brand.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Vimp on 01/06/04 04:02 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Scelestus]

Please people, I need to know the make of the card. I'd buy a Radeon 9800 if I could find one that is low profile sized (ie will fit in my PC).

 

[Scelestus]

There are some reviews for Elsa cards on this site and they seem fairly good... *shrug*