Thursday, July 10th 2008

Albatron Launches Three PCI Low-Profile GeForce 8 Video Cards

Jul 10th, 2008 06:33 Discuss (41 Comments)

If you're on the market, looking for a card that will work on most of today's PCs, you'd be surprised to know that Albatron is launching a trio of new PCI low-profile graphics cards. Yes they are PCI, not PCI-Express compatible and they are part of the GeForce 8 generation. The cards are dubbed PCI8600GT-256X, PCI8500GT-256X, PCI8400GS-256, and represent GeForce 8600 GT, 8500 GT and 8400 GS respectively. The first two cards come equipped with GDDR3 memory, 128-bit interface and HDMI connectivity while the PCI8400GS-256 makes use of GDDR2 chips, a 64-bit interface and has no HDMI. All three cards come with 256MB memory, DVI and TV-Out connectors.

Source: Albatron

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41 Comments on Albatron Launches Three PCI Low-Profile GeForce 8 Video Cards

#26

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

the only problem is that vista cant handle two video drivers at the same time (XP could, but XP crashed a lot when you did it lol) so if you do this, you need an Nvidia primary card, and the cards all need to share the one driver (meaning no betas, without modding first)

to be honest i want one :D physx sounds awesome, and folding on the side too.

#27

newtekie1

Semi-Retired Folder

Musselsthe only problem is that vista cant handle two video drivers at the same time (XP could, but XP crashed a lot when you did it lol) so if you do this, you need an Nvidia primary card, and the cards all need to share the one driver (meaning no betas, without modding first)

to be honest i want one :D physx sounds awesome, and folding on the side too.

I've had my 3850 and 9800GTX in my Vista machine together and it handled it just fine.

#28

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

newtekie1I've had my 3850 and 9800GTX in my Vista machine together and it handled it just fine.

could you get both cards to start at once? i've always had vista throw an error saying the driver could not start, and only the primary card works. I did it less than 4 hours ago with a radeon 2600xt to see if anything had changed in SP1, but it didnt work.

#29

MikeX

ahh

those people with P3 and 2 can finally play WoW and Watch HD content. I wish these pci8600gt can do sli, that would be awsomm:laugh:

#30

candle_86

they could actully do SLI its the lack of the interface and drivers to support PCI SLI for the current gen lol. Also the improvements wouldn't be that great as data would have to use the PCI bus anyway, but it is possible to use the PCI bus as an SLI link as all slots are tired together on that massive 133mb/s bus lol

#31

roberto888

That would be funny if they supporting SLI.:laugh: i have 5 PCI Slots. I could use them in 3-way SLI.LOL:laugh::laugh::cool:But i think its inpossible.:)

#32

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

roberto888But i think its inpossible.:)

ralph wiggumMe fail english? that unpossible!

There doesnt appear to be an SLI bridge in the pictures, and as PCI slots cant really communicate between themselves like PCI-E, i'd say SLI is a no.

www.albatron.com.tw/public/Images/News/EN/2008/news20080709_3.gif

1,200 in 3dm06 from an 8600GT? yeah these cards might be limited.

#33

Baum

ah i think i will get one as my pci bus only handles one slot on my epia and everything else ist connected seperately to the NB, even the onboard gpu is agp 2x but 3dmark doesn't start at all ;-)

I will use them in my beamer rig to get vid's and old games running, if they are not tooo expensive

#34

JrRacinFan

Served 5k and counting ...

MusselsThere doesnt appear to be an SLI bridge in the pictures, and as PCI slots cant really communicate between themselves like PCI-E, i'd say SLI is a no.

www.albatron.com.tw/public/Images/News/EN/2008/news20080709_3.gif

1,200 in 3dm06 from an 8600GT? yeah these cards might be limited.

Actually, software SLi could be possible. Worth it? I highly doubt. Whoever would purchase one in single wouldn't be looking for the latest and greatest in gaming anyways.

PS: My Asus with onboard ATi 200 Express scores a little over 1k.

#35

Ketxxx

Heedless Psychic

It has to be said.... what the hell is the point? Apart from making it a bit easier for someone who had a VGA BIOS flash go wrong and needs a PCI VGA to reflash, I cant see any point in these.

#36

JrRacinFan

Served 5k and counting ...

KetxxxIt has to be said.... what the hell is the point? Apart from making it a bit easier for someone who had a VGA BIOS flash go wrong and needs a PCI VGA to reflash, I cant see any point in these.

Actually, these would be good for those NanoITX boards that have only one PCI slot and using onboard VGA.

#37

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Physx
F@H
mobos with no AGP/PCI-E (ITX boards tend to have one PCI slot only)

#38

mdm-adph

KetxxxIt has to be said.... what the hell is the point? Apart from making it a bit easier for someone who had a VGA BIOS flash go wrong and needs a PCI VGA to reflash, I cant see any point in these.

For all those people out there using old Dells (from back when they used to strip the AGP port off the motherboards) who suddenly want to start gaming, but don't want to spend $300+ on a new computer.

#39

Ketxxx

Heedless Psychic

Still seems very very little point to me, those cards will probably retail at what? £80-100? Not worth it IMO.

#40

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

KetxxxStill seems very very little point to me, those cards will probably retail at what? £80-100? Not worth it IMO.

lets hope its less than that.

Remember that these are half height too, and thats a whole different market. you have a half height PCI card with bluray decoding and HDMI out - thats a lot of power in a small space, for the HTPC market.

for the desperate gamer market, consider it this way: its still going to be a lot cheaper than buying an all new PC, and if its for media/light gaming, then it'll do fine (by light, i mean CSS everything on low)

#41

PVTCaboose1337

Graphical Hacker

If the cards are under $100 then I would probably be in for the cheapest, as a backup card for bios flashing etc, as my Rage IIC is getting a bit dusty.

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