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Need help identifying a graphics card.

jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
edited January 2012 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
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I was given the graphics card pictured in the link above (sorry if the picture quality isn't great, it was taken with my phone). I have tried searching the numbers printed on it, but I can't get anywhere with the searches. Is there an easy way to find out what model of graphics card this is?

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  • EgoEgo Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Link doesn't work for me.

    edit: I dunno what 'livefilestore' is but dropbox is pretty decent for doing public links to files (and it's free.)

    Ego on
    Erik
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Or just use photobucket.

  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Ok, I have the image up there in the spoiler tag now. The numbers on it that may be of relevance are: DCV-00161-N3-GP (on the side of the fan), 6B1D005550 (near the PCI pins), and CN-0HH748-69702-6B4-3307 (on the underside of the fan). It's not an extremely recent graphics card, but I don't think it's more than 3 years old.

  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    7X00, either 7600 or 7900, probably.

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Ah, so it's quite a bit older than I thought. Thanks!

  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    I should mention that this is based on the number on the HSF, so it's possible that the HSF was transplanted onto a different card. Really, plugging it into a computer would be the easiest thing to do.

  • FalkenFalken Registered User regular
    Yeah, you can tell just by looking at the reasonably-sized cooler it's an old card. The art of designing computer components that aren't retardedly wasteful was lost years ago.

  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    A few extra inches of plastic to cool components that reach much higher temperatures, or that allow larger fans that run at a higher efficiency and produce less noise, is not "retardedly wasteful."

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Falken wrote: »
    Yeah, you can tell just by looking at the reasonably-sized cooler it's an old card. The art of designing computer components that aren't retardedly wasteful was lost years ago.

    Older cards that are die shrunk and renamed often have dinky little heatsinks on them. For instance the heatsink and fan on my GTS250 is about 1/3 of the size of the one that was originally fitted to the 8800GTX Ultra. Which is basically all my card is, but dieshrunk from 90nm to 65nm and the ram bumped up to 1 gig. This is because "shrinking a die reduces the current leakage in semiconductor devices while maintaining the same clock frequency of a chip, making a product with less power consumption (and thus less heat production), increased clock rate headroom, and lower prices." (from Wikipedia)

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