nvidia 8500 GT

[xahu34]

Hello,

my PC (Athlon64 X2 5000+, 2 GB RAM, WinXP) has a grahics card of type ASUS EN8500GT SILENT. Will this be sufficient (e.g. alpha blending of zooming images) for a monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200.

Thanks to the experts.

xahu34

Munich

[nobeefstu]

xahu34,

The specs on this card seem to provide the capability ... even though it has the older DDR2 and 128 bit technology.

The fanless/heatsink design is nice ... just make sure you have highly efficient case fans for cooling though.

Is the resolution a natvie/default 1920x1200 for your monitor ? If not ... it can take a bite into the performance.

Best test is to try out PTE v5 firsthand ... build a few shows and see for sure.

Specification:  
Brand  ASUS 
Model  EN8500GT SILENT/HTD/512M 
Interface  PCI Express x16 
Chipset Manufacturer  NVIDIA 
GPU  GeForce 8500GT 
Core clock  459MHz 
Memory Clock  800MHz 
Memory Size  512MB 
Memory Interface  128-bit 
Memory Type  GDDR2 
DirectX  DirectX 10 
OpenGL  OpenGL 2.0 
D-SUB  1 
DVI  1 
TV-Out  HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out 
VIVO  No 
Tuner  None 
Max Resolution  2048 x 1536 
SLI Supported  Yes 
Cooler  Fanless 
Dual-Link DVI Supported  Yes 
Features  Microsoft DirectX10 and Shader Model 4.0NVIDIA 

PureVideo HD technologyNVIDIA Quantum Technology 
Package Contents  EN8500GT SILENT/HTD/512MHDTV CableDVI to 

VGA/D-sub AdapterDriver DiskUser Manual

[jfa]

Welcome to the world of PTE A-Vs and the user forum xahu34, you will find lots of friendly help and advice here.

Hello,

my PC (Athlon64 X2 5000+, 2 GB RAM, WinXP) has a grahics card of type ASUS EN8500GT SILENT. Will this be sufficient (e.g. alpha blending of zooming images) for a monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200.

Thanks to the experts.

xahu34

Munich

My sister runs a similar PC, (Athlon64 X2 5000, 1 GB RAM, XP Pro), with the same video card as you are using and has had no problems with PTE with many complex O&A functions. I'm not sure what screen resolution she is running but it is quite high.