MSI Fanless ATI 1550 Video Card?

[rory 0]

Just wondering if anyone has ever used this or similar, its an ATI 1550 chip and is low priced. For home or DVR. Also, wondering about the heat sink instead of a fan, as far as heat goes.

 

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=RX1550-TD256EH&class=vga

 

Thanks, Rory

[CollinR 0]

<<< Thinks ATI is the devil.

 

 

It really doesn't matter too much, no video card supports hardware decoding of any of the codecs used in the CCTV world. Except the GV2004 and GV2008, in which case the old Nvidia 4400MX would.

 

 

I just use plain old Intel on board graphics, never had a problem.

[CCTV_Suppliers 0]

Just wondering if anyone has ever used this or similar, its an ATI 1550 chip and is low priced. For home or DVR. Also, wondering about the heat sink instead of a fan, as far as heat goes.

 

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=RX1550-TD256EH&class=vga

 

Thanks, Rory

 

Works fairly well... Heat sink is a big plus vs. the fans... fans do go bad and I had my share of failed video cards because fans go bad... Instead, with this type of heat sink, it gets hot, but manageable.. Of course you always have to use several system fans to reduce overall heat built up away from video cards, the hard drives, processor, etc.... but this card is cheap and works very well..

 

MSI also have the same type of card, but with NVIDIA chipset... Under extreme video intensive tests, NVIDIA version does produce extra FPS and a bit faster, but nothing major..

[CCTV_Suppliers 0]

<<< Thinks ATI is the devil.

 

 

It really doesn't matter too much, no video card supports hardware decoding of any of the codecs used in the CCTV world. Except the GV2004 and GV2008, in which case the old Nvidia 4400MX would.

 

 

I just use plain old Intel on board graphics, never had a problem.

 

Collin, I like AMD processor based solutions, but never liked ATI... it probably had something to do with their technical support or late driver updates...

 

Rather, most of my system contain AMD based motherboard (mainly MSI and ABIT) and NVIDIA chipset based video cards (with at least 256MB)..

 

Never liked Intel.. I do not like any motherboard that comes with many built features, i.e video card, sound card, etc... rather buy as basic system that we can build and add only what we require.