Ok performance, not so great support. BEWARE this video card requires a VERY POWERFUL 12V RAIL ON YOUR POWER SUPPLY. Unless you already have a newer “gaming” power supply I suggest you purchase one if you really want this card. Other than the power problem the card is pretty good. I especially love the additions to nVidia’s control panel. I would recommend this to anyone with an older machine that wants to improve it’s gaming performance.
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This post may not be suitable for anyone under the age of 18. I’m going to shout and swear a little. This post does not contain a solution to the issues listed below… yet. It does, however contain a load of technical jargon that nobody in their right mind will understand. Ah yes, I’m going to to off onto one of my little rants about the state of computers. Or rather, just my computers.
Whilst at work a few days ago, I decided that my little MP3 server at home could do with a bit of a boost. It’s currently running 2 IDE drives, 1 60Gb IBM Deathstar, and a 200Gb Maxtor. The 200Gb drive is completely chock full of stuff, and the Deathstar is ancient and noisy, I really didn’t fancy putting anything on it that I could risk losing.
Off I toddled to my normal place of computer hardware purchasement, Ebuyer. I noticed that they had a Samsung 1Tb drive for sale. A Spinpoint HD103UJ, should you care.
Now, I’ve had “trouble” with Samsung drives in the past. My first 500Gb drive was a Samsung, and it began to show signs of dying within 3 months, though this technically may not have been the drive’s fault. This 500Gb still serves a purpose, however. its magnets are now used to keep the oven door closed since the handle snapped off it.
I ordered the drive, after deciding to give Samsung another chance, along with a few other things… another keyboard, which I intend to use at work, and a SATA/IDE to USB adaptor.
Despite the fact I paid nothing for the “super-saver” delivery, it was delivered within 36 hours of me placing the order. The doorbell rang, and I hurriedly rushed downstairs, met the UPS guy with a grin from ear to ear, ran back upstairs clutching the afore-mentioned parcel, and ripped it open like a kid on Christmas day.
I’d just finished nights, and the drive was cold, so to avoid any possible condensation damage, I decided to leave fitting the drive until I’d had some sleep.
I awoke at roughly 6PM, looking forward to the procedure of opening the machine, taking the old 200Gb drive out, connecting the new 1Tb one, then connecting the old drive via USB, copying the data over, ghosting the 60Gb system drive, writing the image to the 200Gb drive, making the 60Gb redundant.
It all sounds so very seemples (squeak).
Firstly, i disconnected Beastbits so I could use the power cables and the monitor so I could actually see what I was doing. I took out the old drive, fitted the new one via SATA, and powered on the machine. The SATA detection screen came up…
“No devices found”.
Confused, I checked my connections, and sure enough, I’d not connected the power cable to one of the molex connectors. Bohh, fucking idiot.
In it goes, reboot, aaaaand, yes, “No devices found”.
This was the shit that I’ve always dreaded. It means that the drive is a SATA 3.0Gbps, and my motherboard is a SATA 1.5Gbps. According to the scrappy little pice of paper you get with the drive, “you should switch your drive to SATA 1.5Gb/s speed with a software which we are providing via www.samsunghdd.com”
Um, OK. I couldn’t see how a piece of software could possibly help if the hardware can’t actually see and detect the drive. I played along, and found the appropriate software on the Samsung website. It came as an ISO image. And, the only machine capable of writing ISOs in the whole of Mercuryvapour Towers is Beastbits, which was sat on the floor, totally disconnected.
Almost in tears, I swapped the computers back, and burned the ISO to a DVD, and swapped them back again. Lo and behold, the Samsung software totally failed to recognise the drive, so it was impossible to change the settings.
Now, I’m not disfamiliar with the whole “SATA 1.5/3.0″ issue, and I know that all of my other drives have a jumper you can change to allow it to work. This particular drive does indeed have a set of jumpers on the back…
Unfortunately, these are undocumented. Nothing on the label of the drive, nothing in the shitty little scrap of paper you receive.
I spent the next 20 minutes looking for a hard drive with the jumpers still attached to it, so I could use one of these. Turns out both jumpers do absolutely nothing to rectify the issue, and the drive still remained undetected.
OK, fair enough, I couldn’t do anything with that computer. It was a lost cause, so I thought I’d try and connect it to Beastbits to see if I can get it to detect. Success! Er, sort of. It would get as far as the SATA detection screen, and it would hang.
Note how the first drive has the size printed next to it, but the Samsung drive doesn’t? Yes, that’s because there’s a known issue with the SATA controller on my motherboard with drives over a certain size! JOY! It’s well documented here.
Seems like the only solution is to get a SATA controller card and hope for the best. and there wasn’t as much ranting as I’d originally planned. But for now, I have a 1,000Gb paperweight. Tits.
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1 Jang
This was a good replacement AGP video card for older Dell computer that has a limit of 250 watt power supply. My ATI All-in-Wonder video card finally gave up and I did not want to spend alot of money on a video card for an older AGP/PCI based computer system. I have had good experiences with EVGA products before. This supported the high def resolution of new 24″ Dell monitor. It is a good basic card for older systems. Definitely not a gaming card or for video editing but will extend life of older systems while supporting high resolution wide screen monitors.
2 Johnson
Ok performance, not so great support. BEWARE this video card requires a VERY POWERFUL 12V RAIL ON YOUR POWER SUPPLY. Unless you already have a newer “gaming” power supply I suggest you purchase one if you really want this card. Other than the power problem the card is pretty good. I especially love the additions to nVidia’s control panel. I would recommend this to anyone with an older machine that wants to improve it’s gaming performance.
3 McNamara
I received the card new and the box in good condition and in the time specified for delivery. The installation was easy and Windows recognized the device and installed default drivers. I opted to download and use drivers from Nvidia and had no issues. Compared to the OEM AGP card that came with my system I am very pleased with the card for its price – it’s made a noticable difference in some games and my system performance.
4 Kennick
It was a wonderful change. I was using 16m video card. This was a change I did not anticipate. You can’t go wrong it gives you great graphics.
5 Gahr
This is a good, quiet card if you want to get Aero effects with Vista/Win7 on a business-class machine. I’m not seeing any of the power consumption issues a previous reviewer mentioned, in a machine with a Nexus 300W power supply. This card has no problems handling day-to-day tasks (aka Office docs & web browsing). Haven’t tried anything more intensive.
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