MSY Promotion - ZOTAC GeForce 210 1GB $25 on 16/09 and 17/09 ONLY!!

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  kingsville on 15/09/2011 - 17:31

  would these be good for a HP Proliant from the $199 deal?
  i.e. will it fit? does it have audio over hdmi? does the min 300W really mean min 300W?

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    lostsock on 15/09/2011 - 18:12

    +1

    Probably not (unless you are prepared to tinker).

    An HTPC-ready graphics card is supposed to support decoding and post-processing of High-Definition video in H.264 and VC-1 formats and be able to output sound, including HD audio, via HDMI. Nvidia has had problems with this functionality. First, almost all of the company’s solutions based on its 65nm and 55nm GPUs (excepting the G98 and the chipsets with an integrated G98 graphics core) had the VP2 version of the PureVideo HD processor which only offered hardware video decoding acceleration for VC-1 format. In this case, bit stream processing and entropy decoding had to be done on the CPU. Thus, such graphics cards could not be used in quiet HTPCs with inexpensive, low-performance CPUs. Second, there were even more problems with the audio-over-HDMI feature. The best that Nvidia’s discrete graphics solutions could do was to translate an S/PDIF stream into HDMI. So, they could not support multi-channel HD audio formats whereas all modern products from AMD equipped with an integrated audio core offered this opportunity.

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gf-210-gt220.…

    This guy says he was able to after talking with nVidia for 2 days: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVid…

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      hambuger on 15/09/2011 - 18:14

      If you use Windows it does audio over HDMI fine. The machine I'm using it in won't boot any linux distro I tried to install so I never got to test there.

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    blitz on 15/09/2011 - 19:43

    I have a Zotac 210 in my HP Proliant. Fits just fine with the low profile bracket. Silent, too. Audio over HDMI is fine using OpenElec (need to edit one file, that's it). Plays everything I have thrown at it.

    http://www.openelec.tv/

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    g12345567 on 15/09/2011 - 20:27

    Will work ok. For my HP Microserver HTPC setup I went for the Nvidia GT520. The one I purchased was the Gigabyte GT520 from MSY for $53. This is a low profile single slot fan cooled card. The GT520 being the best performing low power consumption card to fit the Microserver. Running Openelec as well which is linux based. Nvidia being the choice of video card for linux based OS with best driver support.

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  NVidia Sucks on 15/09/2011 - 17:37

  +3

  GeForce 210 wat a joke, my 4 years old 8600gt is much better than that

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    A Banana4scale on 15/09/2011 - 18:33

    -1

    can you buy for $25 and I mean new, not off OCAU

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  Black Hole on 15/09/2011 - 18:03

  +5

  I have got the N wireless USB from them last time round. It works good but the person who served me had very bad meaner, I am not sure what exactly going on with MSY but believe their workers are one unhappy bunch, possibly underpaid and overworked. I rather shop at PCDIY if I can.

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  hambuger on 15/09/2011 - 18:08

  Not a bad card for the price if you're after something for a HTPC. It does audio over HDMI great but I couldn't make mine do 24fps output. Have been running it with a 300w PSU for about 6 months now.

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  thxsmileys on 15/09/2011 - 18:10

  +4

  $5 off….its a good htpc card…but not a bargain.

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  stirlo on 15/09/2011 - 18:12

  How does this fare compared to the integrated graphics available on the z68 chipset?

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    4agte on 15/09/2011 - 19:00

    +1

    z68 boards don't have integrated GPU. They are 1155 boards and the GPU is part of the CPU. There would be very little GPU performance gains over an i5 core

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  Jabba the Hutt on 15/09/2011 - 18:23

  +3

  This should answer power consumption questions.

  http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Inno3D/GeForce_210/28.htm…
  http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/gf-210-gt2…

  And this should answer how it compares in performance to the Sandy Bridge integrated GPU (at least the HD 3000 variant that 'K' models have).

  http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i5_2500K_GPU/

  You're welcome :)

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  A Banana4scale on 15/09/2011 - 18:36

  +1

  Comparison to other cards, this might actually help
  http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+210

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  killergreely on 15/09/2011 - 18:44

  +3

  The ATI Powercolor 512MB 5450 is a better buy and its regular price at MSY is $25. Less memory, but it's DDR3, which more than compensates. The chipset is about 1/3rd as fast again in most benchmarks.

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    basicerno on 15/09/2011 - 23:49

    Would that be better than this for a HTPC? I just want 5.1 audio over HDMI.

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    xxxcc on 16/09/2011 - 00:23

    But does it come with a low profile bracket？

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  davidl2 on 15/09/2011 - 19:41

  $5 off and expecting customer to flood your store? so you get sold more of other items?

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  zhangcheng34 on 15/09/2011 - 20:08

  it's even can't be Phsyx card due to only 16 procesors. otherwiase I may consider to bought one.

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  Gazette on 15/09/2011 - 21:06

  meh… $5 savings, maybe if it was $20 or less it'd be a lot more attractive

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  McLarenHonda on 16/09/2011 - 06:19

  [ YAWN ] Boring……

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  McLarenHonda on 16/09/2011 - 06:20

  [ YAWN ] Boring……