Sparkle connect G86 to PCI Conventional

Wednesday 06th June 2007, 07:07:00 PM, written by Rys

Our Hexian friends have uncovered modern day D3D10 acceleration riding that shortest of buses found in a modern PC, PCIc. The combination of low-cost, low-power and decent features mean that joining old and new serves a niche or two.

Their HEXUS.headline serves to let us know that GeForce 8500 GT is the product that makes the leap to PCIc, rather than PCIe. I run three heads on my PC and rarely do I ask for anything but the most basic 3D acceleration on the 3rd, and it requires its own graphics board to drive it.

The little passively cooled board would be perfect, given I run Vista and another NVIDIA board for work, where I can't run another vendor's hardware alongside because of the driver model.

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nvidia ± geforce, pci, conventional, 8500, gt, sparkle

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