Help needed with graphics card!

[jack]

Hi peeps

Well i brought a winfast A340 from a second hand sale, but it didn't come with a box.

My question is how can i tell which model it is?

There is no marking on the Card itself except A340?

Its 128mb samsung chips, has a passive heatsink
tv-out / dvi
Core run's @ 250
mem @ 405

any idea's

[joshwa]

if you install the nvidia drivers, it will normally tell you in device manager (right click my computer, go to properties, go to device manager)...

looks like a Geforce 5200 something

http://www.leadtek.com.tw/graphic.shtml

[jack]

Yeah but what model ie ultra TD / T / TD / TDH

Device manager is just showing it as a A340

[joshwa]

looks like it's either TD or TDH - as it's got Tv out and dvi - probably one of those rather than the ultra - but i'm just guessing - sorry.

have you have a look in display properties (control panel / display / settings / advanced) to see if it says there?

[Agent]

The g.cards BIOS should tell you at bootup.
If not, then download "nvidia BIOS editor" (google for it), read your BIOS from the program, and you should see it mentioned somwhere in there.

[Darkmatter]

I know this isnt much help, but it wont be the Ultra, speeds are too slow

[3Dfx]

GF FX 5200.

[jack]

All advice taken and try'd but still no T - TDH in sight

I guess the only thing i can do is email leadtek with a serial number?

[jack]

Sorry had to do this!!

yeah 50 posts

[Austin]

The A340 relates to the FX5200 nonUltra and those clocks are bang on for it. IIRC diffs between T, TD, TDH are simply the ports you get, T = VGA only ... TD = VGA+DVI+TVout ... TDH = VGA+DVI+VIVO (or something close to that).

Anyway it is DX9 capable but in reality that's useless, however you are better than Rad9000-9200 and GF4MX ... just way below the likes of GF4TI4200, Rad9600PRO or GF-FX5600ultra. You can also try 3Dmark03 for diags info, big download though and will crawl on your card even though it's DX9.

[jack]

1 more thing the card as stated doesn't have a fan heatsink! and the card doesn't have a connector on the board to plug in a fan?

All the picture's ive seen of this card has the fan? whats that about

[Austin]

Both nVidia and ATI often release cards in their series designed with passive (HS, no fan) cooling in mind. FX5200 is such a gfx card, the core simply runs cool enough to not require a fan BUT this will severely impede o/c'ing and do expect the card to become very hot. Other examples are GF4MX, Rad9000-9200 and Rad9600 (nonPRO). BTW you could attach a case fan (for example), that would power form the PSU/mobo header.